Tract vs System - What's the difference?
tract | system |
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.
A collection of organized things; a whole composed of relationships among its members.
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# (label) A set of equations involving the same , which are to be solved simultaneously.
# (medicine) The body organs that contribute to a vegetative function.
# (label) A set of staffs that indicate instruments or sounds that are to be played simultaneously.
A method or way of organizing or planning.
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# (derogatory) In the system : the mainstream culture, elites, or government of a state, or a combination of them, seen as oppressive to the individual.
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As nouns the difference between tract and system
is that tract is an area or expanse while system is a collection of organized things; a whole composed of relationships among its members.As a verb tract
is to pursue, follow; to track.tract
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)
system
English
(wikipedia system)Noun
(en noun)- As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could.