protract
protract is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 4 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.To put off to a distant time; to delay; to defer; as, to protract a decision or duty. Shak.
- 2.(Surv.) To draw to a scale; to lay down the lines and angles of, with scale and protractor; to plot.
- 3.(Zoöl.) To extend; to protrude; as, the cat can protract its claws; -- opposed to retract.
- 4.Tedious continuance or delay. [Obs.] Spenser.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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Definition-first questions whose answer is protract.
- What is to put off to a distant time; to delay; to defer; as, to protract a decision or duty. Shak called?
- What is to draw to a scale; to lay down the lines and angles of, with scale and protractor; to plot called?
- What is to extend; to protrude; as, the cat can protract its claws; -- opposed to retract called?
- What is tedious continuance or delay. [Obs.] Spenser called?
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- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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