[trakt], (Noun)

Definitions:
- an area of land, typically a large one
(e.g: large tracts of natural forest)

- a major passage in the body, large bundle of nerve fibres, or other continuous elongated anatomical structure or region
(e.g: the digestive tract)


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘duration or course of time’): from Latin tractus ‘drawing, draught’, from trahere ‘draw, pull’

[trakt], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a short treatise in pamphlet form, typically on a religious subject


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English (denoting a written work treating a particular topic), apparently an abbreviation of Latin tractatus (see tractate). The current sense dates from the early 19th century

[trakt], (Noun)

Definitions:
- (in the Roman Catholic Church) an anthem of Scriptural verses formerly replacing the alleluia in certain penitential and requiem Masses


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English: from medieval Latin tractus (cantus) ‘drawn-out (song)’, past participle of Latin trahere ‘draw’