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Adjourn vs Protract - What's the difference?

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Adjourn is a related term of protract.


As verbs the difference between adjourn and protract

is that adjourn is to postpone while protract is to draw out; to extend, especially in duration.

adjourn

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To postpone.
    • The trial was adjourned for a week.
  • To defer; to put off temporarily or indefinitely.
  • * Barrow
    • It is a common practice to adjourn the reformation of their lives to a further time.
  • To end or suspend an event.
    • The court will adjourn for lunch.
  • (intransitive, formal, uncommon) To move from one place to another.
    • After the dinner, we will adjourn to the bar.

    See also

    * adjournment

    protract

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To draw out; to extend, especially in duration.
  • *2010 , (Christopher Hitchens), ‘The Men Who Made England’, The Atlantic , Mar 2010:
  • *:Still, form these extraordinary pages you can learn that it's very bad to be burned alive on a windy day, because the breeze will keep flicking the flames away from you and thus protract the process.
  • To use a protractor.
  • (surveying) To draw to a scale; to lay down the lines and angles of, with scale and protractor; to plot.
  • To put off to a distant time; to delay; to defer.
    • to protract a decision or duty
    (Shakespeare)
  • To extend; to protrude.
    • A cat can protract and retract its claws.

    Synonyms

    * (to draw out) prolong

    Derived terms

    * protractile