different between effort vs tract

English

Etymology

From Middle French effort, from Old French esfort, deverbal of esforcier (“to force, exert”), from Vulgar Latin *exforti?, from Latin ex + fortis (“strong”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??f?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??f?t/

Noun

effort (plural efforts)

1. The work involved in performing an activity; exertion.
2. An endeavor.
3. A force acting on a body in the direction of its motion.
   • 1858, Macquorn Rankine, Manual of Applied Mechanics

     the two bodies between which the effort acts

Usage notes

• Adjectives often used with "effort": conscious, good, poor, etc.

Synonyms

• struggle

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

effort (third-person singular simple present efforts, present participle efforting, simple past and past participle efforted)

1. (uncommon, intransitive) To make an effort.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To strengthen, fortify or stimulate

French

Etymology

From Middle French, from Old French esfort, from esforcier; morphologically, deverbal of efforcer. Compare Spanish esfuerzo, Catalan esforç, Portuguese esforço, Italian sforzo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.f??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

effort m (plural efforts)

1. effort

Derived terms

• loi du moindre effort

Related terms

• efforcer

Descendants

• ? Romanian: efort

Further reading

• “effort” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• offert

Middle French

Etymology

Old French.

Noun

effort m (plural effors)

1. strength; might; force
2. (military) unit; division

References

• effort on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

Old French

Noun

effort m (oblique plural efforz or effortz, nominative singular efforz or effortz, nominative plural effort)

1. Alternative form of esfort

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?ækt/
• Homophone: tracked
• Rhymes: -ækt

Etymology 1

From tractate, from Latin tractatus, or borrowed from Latin tractus, the perfect passive participle of trah?. Doublet of trait.

Noun

tract (plural tracts)

1. An area or expanse.
   • a very high mountain joined to the mainland by a narrow tract of earth

   • 1662, Thomas Fuller, History of the Worthies of England

     small tracks of ground

2. A series of connected body organs, as in the digestive tract.
3. A small booklet such as a pamphlet, often for promotional or informational uses.
4. A brief treatise or discourse on a subject.
   • 1731, Jonathan Swift, The Presbyterians Plea of Merit

     The church clergy at that writ the best collection of tracts against popery that ever appeared.

5. A commentator's view or perspective on a subject.
6. Continued or protracted duration, length, extent
   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. XIV, Henry of Essex

     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 Lailand Hundred, involved us in travellings and innumerable expenses, vexing the servants of St. Edmund for a long tract of time […]

7. 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.
8. (obsolete) Continuity or extension of anything.

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9. (obsolete) Traits; features; lineaments.
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Simulation and Dissimulation

     The discovery of a man's self by the tracts of his countenance is a great weakness.

10. (obsolete) The footprint of a wild animal.

    • The Prophet Telemus […] mark'd the Tracts of every Bird that flew

11. (obsolete) Track; trace.
    • c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens

      But flies an eagle flight, bold, and forth on, / Leaving no tract behind.

12. (obsolete) Treatment; exposition.
    • 1613, William Shakespeare, Henry VIII, Act I, Scene I

      The tract of every thing Would, by a good discourser, lose some life Which action's self was tongue to.

Synonyms

• (series of connected body organs): system

Related terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Latin tractus, the participle stem of trahere (“to pull, drag”).

Verb

tract (third-person singular simple present tracts, present participle tracting, simple past and past participle tracted)

1. (obsolete) To pursue, follow; to track.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:

     Where may that treachour then (said he) be found, / Or by what meanes may I his footing tract?

2. (obsolete) To draw out; to protract.

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Anagrams

• T-cart

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English tract.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?akt/

Noun

tract m (plural tracts)

1. flyer, circular, pamphlet

Derived terms

• tracter

Further reading

• “tract” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).