What is the difference between pursue and tract?
pursue | tract |
(obsolete) To follow with harmful intent; to try to harm, to persecute, torment.
To follow urgently, originally with intent to capture or harm; to chase.
* Wyclif Bible, John xv. 20
* 2009 , Martin Chulov, ‘Iraqi shoe-thrower claims he suffered torture in jail’, The Guardian , 15 Sep 09:
To follow, travel down (a particular way, course of action etc.).
To aim for, go after (a specified objective, situation etc.).
* 2009 , Benjamin Pogrund, ‘Freeze won't hurt Netanyahu’, The Guardian , 1 Dec 09:
To participate in (an activity, business etc.); to practise, follow (a profession).
An area or expanse.
* Milton
* Addison
A series of connected body organs, as in the digestive tract .
A small booklet such as a pamphlet, often for promotional or informational uses.
A brief treatise or discourse on a subject.
* Jonathan Swift
A commentator's view or perspective on a subject.
Continued or protracted duration, length, extent
* Milton
* 1843 ,
Part of the proper of the liturgical celebration of the Eucharist for many Christian denominations, used instead of the alleluia during Lenten or pre-Lenten seasons, in a Requiem Mass, and on a few other penitential occasions.
(obsolete) Continuity or extension of anything.
(obsolete) Traits; features; lineaments.
* Francis Bacon
(obsolete) The footprint of a wild animal.
(obsolete) Track; trace.
* Sir Thomas Browne
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Treatment; exposition.
(obsolete) To pursue, follow; to track.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.i:
(obsolete) To draw out; to protract.
As verbs the difference between pursue and tract
is that pursue is to follow with harmful intent; to try to harm, to persecute, torment while tract is to pursue, follow; to track.As a noun tract is
an area or expanse.pursue
English
Verb
(pursu)- The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have pursued' me, they shall ' pursue you also.
- He now feared for his life, and believed US intelligence agents would pursue him.
- Her rival pursued a quite different course.
- He even stands to gain in world terms: his noisy critics strengthen his projected image of a man determined to pursue peace with Palestinians.
See also
* follow * chasetract
English
Etymology 1
From tractus, the perfect passive participle of (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- an unexplored tract of sea
- the deep tract of hell
- a very high mountain joined to the mainland by a narrow tract of earth
- The church clergy at that writ the best collection of tracts against popery that ever appeared.
- improved by tract of time
- Nay, in another case of litigation, the unjust Standard bearer, for his own profit, asserting that the cause belonged not to St. Edmund’s Court, but to his in , involved us in travellings and innumerable expenses, vexing the servants of St. Edmund for a long tract of time
- the tract of speech
- (Older)
- The discovery of a man's self by the tracts of his countenance is a great weakness.
- (Dryden)
- Efface all tract of its traduction.
- But flies an eagle flight, bold, and forth on, / Leaving no tract behind.
- (Shakespeare)
Etymology 2
From tractus , the participle stem of (etyl) trahere.Verb
(en verb)- Where may that treachour then (said he) be found, / Or by what meanes may I his footing tract ?
- (Ben Jonson)