"tractile" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˈtɹæktaɪl/ [Received-Pronunciation], /-tl̩/ [Received-Pronunciation], /-tɪl/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈtɹækˌtaɪl/ [General-American], /-t(ə)l/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-tractile.wav [Southern-England] Forms: more tractile [comparative], most tractile [superlative]
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Late Latin tractilis (“that can be dragged or pulled”) + English -ile (suffix meaning ‘capable of; tending to’). Tractilis is derived from Latin tractus + -ilis (suffix forming adjectives from the perfect passive participles of verbs); and tractus is the perfect passive participle of trahō (“to drag, pull; to draw out, extend, lengthen, prolong”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ- (“to drag, pull; to run”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*dʰregʰ-|*-lós}}, {{lbor|en|LL.|tractilis|t=that can be dragged or pulled}} Learned borrowing from Late Latin tractilis (“that can be dragged or pulled”), {{glossary|suffix}} suffix, {{m|en|-ile|pos=suffix meaning ‘capable of; tending to’}} -ile (suffix meaning ‘capable of; tending to’), {{m|LL.||Tractilis}} Tractilis, {{der|en|la|tractus}} Latin tractus, {{glossary|adjective}} adjective, {{glossary|perfect}} perfect, {{glossary|passive}} passive, {{glossary|participle}} participle, {{glossary|verb}} verb, {{m|la|-ilis|pos=suffix forming adjectives from the perfect passive participles of verbs}} -ilis (suffix forming adjectives from the perfect passive participles of verbs), {{m|la||tractus}} tractus, {{m|la|trahō|t=to drag, pull; to draw out, extend, lengthen, prolong}} trahō (“to drag, pull; to draw out, extend, lengthen, prolong”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*dʰregʰ-|t=to drag, pull; to run}} Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ- (“to drag, pull; to run”) Head templates: {{en-adj}} tractile (comparative more tractile, superlative most tractile)
  1. Capable of being drawn or stretched out in length. Synonyms: ductile, tensile
    Sense id: en-tractile-en-adj-FlwhYaEv Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -ile Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 38 23 25 15 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 30 37 20 13 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ile: 32 30 23 15
  2. Pertaining to traction or pulling. Synonyms: tractional, tractive
    Sense id: en-tractile-en-adj-iFqIHSKH Categories (other): English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -ile Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 30 37 20 13 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ile: 32 30 23 15
  3. (dated) Capable of being guided, influenced, or led. Tags: dated Synonyms: tractable, moldable, obedient
    Sense id: en-tractile-en-adj-7uFpDM-z Categories (other): English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -ile Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 30 37 20 13 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ile: 32 30 23 15
  4. (obsolete, rare) Of financial assets: able to be drawn or procured from a place of deposit; liquid. Tags: obsolete, rare
    Sense id: en-tractile-en-adj-E-3WuBY1 Categories (other): English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -ile Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 30 37 20 13 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ile: 32 30 23 15
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: intractile, tractility

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          "ref": "1906, Wallace Irwin, “The Poet and the Gas Man”, in Random Rhymes and Odd Numbers, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, page 79",
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          "text": "Kites, which the kind Mr. Benjamin Smith had supplied me with, as a tractile power to assist us in dragging sledges, as well as a means of signalizing between parties, afforded much interest, […]",
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          "ref": "1955 November 19, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, “Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters”, in Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, published 1959, →OCLC, page 29",
          "text": "[A]bruptly, his head craned into the limited space between Mrs. Silsburn and me. \"Driver,\" he said peremptorily, and waited for a response. When it came with promptness, his voice became a bit more tractile, democratic: \"How long do you think we'll be tied up here?\"",
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      "args": {
        "1": "participle"
      },
      "expansion": "participle",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "verb"
      },
      "expansion": "verb",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "-ilis",
        "pos": "suffix forming adjectives from the perfect passive participles of verbs"
      },
      "expansion": "-ilis (suffix forming adjectives from the perfect passive participles of verbs)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "",
        "3": "tractus"
      },
      "expansion": "tractus",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "trahō",
        "t": "to drag, pull; to draw out, extend, lengthen, prolong"
      },
      "expansion": "trahō (“to drag, pull; to draw out, extend, lengthen, prolong”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*dʰregʰ-",
        "t": "to drag, pull; to run"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ- (“to drag, pull; to run”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Learned borrowing from Late Latin tractilis (“that can be dragged or pulled”) + English -ile (suffix meaning ‘capable of; tending to’). Tractilis is derived from Latin tractus + -ilis (suffix forming adjectives from the perfect passive participles of verbs); and tractus is the perfect passive participle of trahō (“to drag, pull; to draw out, extend, lengthen, prolong”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ- (“to drag, pull; to run”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more tractile",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most tractile",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "tractile (comparative more tractile, superlative most tractile)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "tract‧ile"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "attract"
    },
    {
      "word": "attraction"
    },
    {
      "word": "attractive"
    },
    {
      "word": "attractiveness"
    },
    {
      "word": "contract"
    },
    {
      "word": "contractible"
    },
    {
      "word": "contractile"
    },
    {
      "word": "contractility"
    },
    {
      "word": "contraction"
    },
    {
      "word": "contractive"
    },
    {
      "word": "distract"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "adjective"
      ],
      "word": "distracted"
    },
    {
      "word": "distractedly"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "adjective",
        "noun"
      ],
      "word": "distracting"
    },
    {
      "word": "distraction"
    },
    {
      "word": "distractive"
    },
    {
      "word": "irretractile"
    },
    {
      "word": "nonretractile"
    },
    {
      "word": "retract"
    },
    {
      "word": "retractile"
    },
    {
      "word": "retraction"
    },
    {
      "word": "retractive"
    },
    {
      "word": "retractively"
    },
    {
      "word": "retractiveness"
    },
    {
      "word": "tract"
    },
    {
      "word": "traction"
    },
    {
      "word": "tractive"
    },
    {
      "word": "tractiveness"
    },
    {
      "word": "tractor"
    },
    {
      "word": "tractory"
    },
    {
      "word": "unretractile"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "intractile"
        },
        {
          "word": "irretractile"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1874, S[eneca] R[ay] Stoddard, “Lake Champlain”, in The Adirondacks: Illustrated, Albany, N.Y.: Weed, Parsons, & Co., →OCLC, page 34",
          "text": "[H]e carried a piece [of the iron ore] to a blacksmith forge, and ascertained that it was of a very fine, tractile quality: […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1906, Wallace Irwin, “The Poet and the Gas Man”, in Random Rhymes and Odd Numbers, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, page 79",
          "text": "Oh, Gas Man, Gas Man, answer me— / My lines are long and tractile— / Which kind of meter would you see, / A spondee or a dactyl?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1916, B[yron] G. R. Williams, “Microscopic Uranalyses”, in Practical Uranalyses, St. Louis, Mo.: C. V. Mosby Company, →OCLC, page 126",
          "text": "Mucus is cohesive and tractile, and is not very adhesive or brittle (even when considerably desiccated) as are the casts commonly referred to as true casts.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1983, R. A. Lawrie, D. A. Ledward, “Texturization of Recovered Proteins”, in D. A. Ledward, A. J. Taylor, R. A. Lawrie, editors, Upgrading Waste for Feeds and Food, London: Butterworths, part III (Manipulation and Modification of Food Waste), page 171",
          "text": "Under these conditions starchy components gelatinize, proteins denature and the tractile components are restructured and/or aligned.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Capable of being drawn or stretched out in length."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Capable",
          "capable"
        ],
        [
          "drawn",
          "draw#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "stretched",
          "stretch#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "length",
          "length"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "ductile"
        },
        {
          "word": "tensile"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1852, Sherard Osborn, Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal; or, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions, in Search of Sir John Franklin’s Expedition, in the Years 1850–51, New York, N.Y.: George P[almer] Putnam, […], →OCLC, page 137",
          "text": "Kites, which the kind Mr. Benjamin Smith had supplied me with, as a tractile power to assist us in dragging sledges, as well as a means of signalizing between parties, afforded much interest, […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "1860, Henry David Thoreau, Journal entry dated 25 March, 1860, in Bradford Torrey (ed.), The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Journal, December 1, 1859–July 31, 1860, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1906, p. 221,\nThe sleighing, the sledding, or sliding, is gone. We now begin to wheel or roll ourselves and commodities along, which requires more tractile power."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1880, Henry G. Landis, “Introduction”, in How to Use the Forceps. […], New York, N.Y.: E. B. Treat, […], →OCLC, part II (The Forceps), page 130",
          "text": "The tractile efforts should be made during the continuance of the labor pains, if the latter are frequent and regular, and suspended in the interval between them.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1989, Primo Levi, “Five Intimate Interviews”, in Raymond Rosenthal, transl., The Mirror Maker: Stories & Essays […], New York, N.Y.: Schocken Books, page 33",
          "text": "I bet that, big as you are, you could not withstand the tractile force of one of my [a mole's] hands.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Pertaining to traction or pulling."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "traction",
          "traction"
        ],
        [
          "pulling",
          "pulling#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "tractional"
        },
        {
          "word": "tractive"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English dated terms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1743, Aaron Hill, “Canto IV”, in The Fanciad. An Heroic Poem. […], London: […] J. Osborn, →OCLC, page 34, lines 95–98",
          "text": "To Bribes, unbow'd: yet ductile in Command: / Their Heart, their Country's—and their King's, their Hand, // STILL-but how chang'd! -thus, thus, were Armies taught; / Un-paid, thus tractile; and thus rais'd, un-bought: […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1955 November 19, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, “Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters”, in Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, published 1959, →OCLC, page 29",
          "text": "[A]bruptly, his head craned into the limited space between Mrs. Silsburn and me. \"Driver,\" he said peremptorily, and waited for a response. When it came with promptness, his voice became a bit more tractile, democratic: \"How long do you think we'll be tied up here?\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Capable of being guided, influenced, or led."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "guided",
          "guide#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "influenced",
          "influence#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "led",
          "lead#Etymology 2"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated) Capable of being guided, influenced, or led."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "tractable"
        },
        {
          "word": "moldable"
        },
        {
          "word": "obedient"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with rare senses"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1930, Charles Edward Russell, “The Last Gift of All”, in Haym Salomon and the Revolution, New York, N.Y.: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, page 273",
          "text": "With all other assets that could be made tractile and merchantable, they went to pay Haym Salomon's debts.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Of financial assets: able to be drawn or procured from a place of deposit; liquid."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "financial",
          "financial#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "asset",
          "asset"
        ],
        [
          "able",
          "able#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "procure",
          "procure"
        ],
        [
          "place",
          "place#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "deposit",
          "deposit#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "liquid",
          "liquid#Adjective"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, rare) Of financial assets: able to be drawn or procured from a place of deposit; liquid."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈtɹæktaɪl/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/-tl̩/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/-tɪl/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈtɹækˌtaɪl/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/-t(ə)l/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
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}

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