Protract(n.) Tedious continuance or delay.
Protract(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.
Protract(v. t.) To put off to a distant time; to delay; to defer; as, to protract a decision or duty.
Protract(v. t.) To draw to a scale; to lay down the lines and angles of, with scale and protractor; to plot.
Protract(v. t.) To extend; to protrude; as, the cat can protract its claws; -- opposed to retract.
Protracted(a.) Prolonged; continued.
Protracted(imp. & p. p.) of Protract
Protracter(n.) A protractor.
Protracting(p. pr. vb. n.) of Protract
Protraction(n.) A drawing out, or continuing; the act of delaying the termination of a thing; prolongation; continuance; delay; as, the protraction of a debate.
Protraction(n.) The act or process of making a plot on paper.
Protraction(n.) A plot on paper.
Protractive(a.) Drawing out or lengthening in time; prolonging; continuing; delaying.
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