Retrait vs Retract - What's the difference?
retrait | retract |
(obsolete) A picture or other visual representation.
* , II.ix:
* 1658 , (Thomas Browne), The Garden of Cyrus :
To pull back inside.
(ambitransitive) To draw back; to draw up.
To take back or withdraw something one has said.
* Bishop Stillingfleet
* Granville
To take back, as a grant or favour previously bestowed; to revoke.
As a noun retrait
is (obsolete) a picture or other visual representation or retrait can be .As a verb retract is
to pull back inside.retrait
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) retrait.Noun
(en noun)- She is the mighty Queene of Faerie , / Whose faire retrait I in my shield do beare [...].
Etymology 2
Variant forms.Noun
(en noun)- Cyrus'' was his second Brother: who gave the occasion of that memorable work, and almost miraculous retrait of ''Xenophon .
Anagrams
* ----retract
English
Verb
(en verb)- An airplane retracts its wheels for flight.
- Muscles retract after amputation.
- A cat can retract its claws.
- I retract all the accusations I made about the senator and sincerely hope he won't sue me.
- I would as freely have retracted this charge of idolatry as I ever made it.
- She will, and she will not; she grants, denies, / Consents, retracts , advances, and then flies.
- (Woodward)