Protract vs Widen - What's the difference?
protract | widen |
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 extend; to protrude.
To become wide or wider.
To make wide or wider.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=September 29
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, title=Stoke 2 - 1 Besiktas
, work=BBC Sport
To let out clothes to a larger size.
To broaden or extend in scope or range.
As a verb protract
is to draw out; to extend, especially in duration.As a proper noun widen is
sweden.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
* protractilewiden
English
Verb
(en verb)- His eyes widened as her negligee fell to the floor.
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- She widened his trousers for him.
- The police widened their enquiries.