tractile

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Capable of being drawn or stretched out in length.

   “Becauſe it [the dormouse] dravveth the hinder legges after it like a Hare, it is called Animal tractile, for it goeth by iumpes and little leapes.”

2. sıfat Pertaining to traction or pulling.

   “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, […]”

3. sıfat Capable of being guided, influenced, or led.

   “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: […]”

4. sıfat Of financial assets: able to be drawn or procured from a place of deposit; liquid.

   “Some eight thousand (being late conquest) was liquid and actually tractile in the bank; the rest whirled beyond reach and even sight (save in the mirror of a balance-sheet) under the compelling spell of wizard Pinkerton.”