Protract vs Dilatory - What's the difference?
protract | dilatory |
To draw out; to extend, especially in duration.
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*: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 extend; to protrude.
Intentionally delaying (someone or something), intended to cause delay, gain time, or defer decision.
* Motley
Slow or tardy.
As a verb protract
is to draw out; to extend, especially in duration.As an adjective dilatory is
intentionally delaying (someone or something), intended to cause delay, gain time, or defer decision.protract
English
Verb
(en verb)- to protract a decision or duty
- (Shakespeare)
- A cat can protract and retract its claws.
Synonyms
* (to draw out) prolongDerived terms
* protractiledilatory
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Adjective
(-)- a dilatory strategy
- Alva, as usual, brought his dilatory policy to bear upon his adversary.