See protract in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter XIII, in Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume I (The Bride of Lammermoor), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:",
"text": "Both hoped to protract the discovery of what had happened—the mother, by interposing her bustling person betwixt Mr. Girder and the fire, and the daughter, by the extreme cordiality with which she received the minister and her husband […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1875, Anthony Trollope, chapter 64, in The Way We Live Now, London: Chapman and Hall, […]:",
"text": "Of course he was in danger of almost immediate detection and punishment. He hardly hoped that the evil day would be very much longer protracted, and yet he enjoyed his triumph.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To put off to a distant time; to delay; to defer."
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "A cat can protract and retract its claws.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To extend; to protrude."
]
}
],
"sounds": [
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"ipa": "/pɹəˈtɹakt/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
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},
{
"ipa": "/pɹəˈtɹækt/",
"tags": [
"Canada",
"US"
]
},
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}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"sense": "to draw out",
"word": "prolong"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "udǎlžavam",
"sense": "To draw out; to extend, especially in duration.",
"word": "удължавам"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "To draw out; to extend, especially in duration.",
"word": "verlengen"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "To draw out; to extend, especially in duration.",
"word": "aanhouden"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "To draw out; to extend, especially in duration.",
"word": "rekken"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "To draw out; to extend, especially in duration.",
"word": "pitkittää"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "To draw out; to extend, especially in duration.",
"word": "prolonger"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "To draw out; to extend, especially in duration.",
"word": "tirer en longueur"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "To draw out; to extend, especially in duration.",
"word": "verlängern"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "To draw out; to extend, especially in duration.",
"word": "sich ziehen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "To draw out; to extend, especially in duration.",
"word": "sich hinziehen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "To draw out; to extend, especially in duration.",
"word": "in die Länge ziehen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "To draw out; to extend, especially in duration.",
"word": "überziehen"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "To draw out; to extend, especially in duration.",
"word": "tardigar"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "To draw out; to extend, especially in duration.",
"word": "protrarre"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "To draw out; to extend, especially in duration.",
"word": "autō"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "To draw out; to extend, especially in duration.",
"word": "aukume"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "To draw out; to extend, especially in duration.",
"word": "whakaupa"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "To draw out; to extend, especially in duration.",
"word": "prolongar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "To draw out; to extend, especially in duration.",
"word": "prolongar"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "To use a protractor.",
"word": "op schaal tekenen"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "načertavam",
"sense": "To draw or delineate.",
"word": "начертавам"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "To draw or delineate.",
"word": "schetsen"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "To draw or delineate.",
"word": "afbakenen"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "otlagam",
"sense": "to put off to a distant time; to delay; to defer",
"word": "отлагам"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "protakam",
"sense": "to put off to a distant time; to delay; to defer",
"word": "протакам"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to put off to a distant time; to delay; to defer",
"word": "udskyde"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to put off to a distant time; to delay; to defer",
"word": "uitstellen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to put off to a distant time; to delay; to defer",
"word": "verschieben"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to put off to a distant time; to delay; to defer",
"word": "diferir"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to extend; to protrude",
"word": "ausfahren"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to extend; to protrude",
"word": "verlängern"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to extend; to protrude",
"word": "extender"
}
],
"word": "protract"
}
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