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TRACT

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Traducere în limba română

tract¹ substantiv

broşură; mic tratat; opuscul.

tract² substantiv

1. regiune; suprafaţă, întindere (de pământ etc.);

tract of sand întindere de nisip.

2. (anat.) tub, traiect.

3. (înv.) perioadă (de timp etc.).

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They selected the most promising compounds to test in mice infected with Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a common source of respiratory and urinary tract infections, and found that several of the peptides could reduce the infection.

(Venom of Wasp, Bee Repurposed as Antibiotic Drug, Editura Global Info)

Whereupon I was at much pains to describe to him the use of money, the materials it was made of, and the value of the metals; that when a Yahoo had got a great store of this precious substance, he was able to purchase whatever he had a mind to; the finest clothing, the noblest houses, great tracts of land, the most costly meats and drinks, and have his choice of the most beautiful females.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

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