Protract vs Procrastinate - What's the difference?
protract | procrastinate |
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.
To put off; to delay taking action; to wait until later.
To put off; to delay (something).
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As verbs the difference between protract and procrastinate
is that protract is to draw out; to extend, especially in duration while procrastinate is to put off; to delay taking action; to wait until later.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
* protractileprocrastinate
English
Verb
(procrastinat)- He procrastinated until the last minute and had to stay up all night to finish.