protract

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To draw out; to extend, especially in duration.

   “Doubtless he shrives this woman to her smock; Else ne'er could he so long protract his speech.”

2. fiil To use a protractor.
3. fiil To draw to a scale; to lay down the lines and angles of, with scale and protractor; to plot.

   “This is a synopsis of our marches, which, protracted on Burckhardt’s map, gives an error of ten miles.”

4. fiil To put off to a distant time; to delay; to defer.

   “to protract a decision or duty”

5. fiil To extend; to protrude.

   “A cat can protract and retract its claws.”