Protract Meaning in Spanish
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• Protract
Definition & Meaning
- (n.) Tedious continuance or delay.
- (v. t.) To put off to a distant time; to delay; to defer; as, to protract a decision or duty.
- (v. t.) To draw to a scale; to lay down the lines and angles of, with scale and protractor; to plot.
- (v. t.) To draw out or lengthen in time or (rarely) in space; to continue; to prolong; as, to protract an argument; to protract a war.
- (v. t.) To extend; to protrude; as, the cat can protract its claws; -- opposed to retract.
• Protracted
Definition & Meaning
- (a.) Prolonged; continued.
- (imp. & p. p.) of Protract
• Protracter
Definition & Meaning
- (n.) A protractor.
• Protractile
Definition & Meaning
- (a.) Capable of being protracted, or protruded; protrusile.
• Protracting
Definition & Meaning
- (p. pr. vb. n.) of Protract
• Protraction
Definition & Meaning
- (n.) A plot on paper.
- (n.) A drawing out, or continuing; the act of delaying the termination of a thing; prolongation; continuance; delay; as, the protraction of a debate.
- (n.) The act or process of making a plot on paper.
• Protractive
Definition & Meaning
- (a.) Drawing out or lengthening in time; prolonging; continuing; delaying.
• Protractor
Definition & Meaning
- (n.) A mathematical instrument for laying down and measuring angles on paper, used in drawing or in plotting. It is of various forms, semicircular, rectangular, or circular.
- (n.) One who, or that which, protracts, or causes protraction.
- (n.) A muscle which extends an organ or part; -- opposed to retractor.
- (n.) An adjustable pattern used by tailors.
- (n.) An instrument formerly used in extracting foreign or offensive matter from a wound.
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