معنی کلمه :‌ protract

Tedious continuance or delay.

A narrow and elongated aperture; a cleft; a fissure.

To extend; to protrude; as, the cat can protract its claws; -- opposed to retract.

To put off to a distant time; to delay; to defer; as, to protract a decision or duty.

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