Word Meanings - PROTRACTIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Drawing out or lengthening in time; prolonging; continuing; delaying. He suffered their protractive arts. Dryden.

Related words: (words related to PROTRACTIVE)

• DRAWER
  An under-garment worn on the lower limbs. Chest of drawers. See under Chest. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, draws; as: One who draws liquor for guests; a waiter in a taproom. Shak. One who delineates or depicts; a draughtsman; as, a good
• CONTINUABLE
  Capable of being continued
• CONTINUANT
  Continuing; prolonged; sustained; as, a continuant sound. -- n.
• DRAWCANSIR
  A blustering, bullying fellow; a pot-valiant braggart; a bully. The leader was of an ugly look and gigantic stature; he acted like a drawcansir, sparing neither friend nor foe. Addison.
• DRAW-CUT
  A single cut with a knife.
• CONTINUITY
  the state of being continuous; uninterupted connection or succession; close union of parts; cohesion; as, the continuity of fibers. Grew. The sight would be tired, if it were attracted by a continuity of glittering objects. Dryden. Law of continuity
• LENGTHEN
  To extent in length; to make longer in extent or duration; as, to lengthen a line or a road; to lengthen life; -- sometimes followed by out. What if I please to lengthen out his date. Dryden.
• DRAWEE
  The person on whom an order or bill of exchange is drawn; -- the correlative of drawer.
• DRAWROD
  A rod which unites the drawgear at opposite ends of the car, and bears the pull required to draw the train.
• DRAWBAR
  An openmouthed bar at the end of a car, which receives a coupling link and pin by which the car is drawn. It is usually provided with a spring to give elasticity to the connection between the cars of a train. A bar of iron with an eye at each end,
• DRAW
  draga, Dan. drage to draw, carry, and prob. to OS. dragan to bear, carry, D. dragen, G. tragen, Goth. dragan; cf. Skr. dhraj to move along, glide; and perh. akin to Skr. dhar to hold, bear. Drag, Dray a 1. To cause to move continuously by force
• DRAWLINK
  See
• PROTRACTIVE
  Drawing out or lengthening in time; prolonging; continuing; delaying. He suffered their protractive arts. Dryden.
• DRAWGLOVES
  An old game, played by holding up the fingers. Herrick.
• CONTINUOUSLY
  In a continuous maner; without interruption. -- Con*tin"u*ous*ness, n.
• CONTINUATION
  1. That act or state of continuing; the state of being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession; prolongation; propagation. Preventing the continuation of the royal line. Macaulay. 2. That which extends, increases, supplements, or carries
• SUFFERABLE
  1. Able to suffer or endure; patient. "Ye must be sufferable." Chaucer. 2. That may be suffered, tolerated, or permitted; allowable; tolerable. -- Suf"fer*a*ble*ness, n. -- Suf"fer*a*bly, adv.
• DRAWN
  See PATTERN
• DRAWL
  To utter in a slow, lengthened tone.
• PROLONGE
  A rope with a hook and a toggle, sometimes used to drag a gun carriage or to lash it to the limber, and for various other purposes.
• LONG-SUFFERANCE
  Forbearance to punish or resent.
• RECONTINUANCE
  The act or state of recontinuing.
• DISCONTINUITY
  Want of continuity or cohesion; disunion of parts. "Discontinuity of surface." Boyle.
• DISCONTINUE
  To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off. Set up their conventicles again, which had been discontinued. Bp. Burnet. I have discontinued school
• UNDRAW
  To draw aside or open; to draw back. Angels undrew the curtain of the throne. Young.
• FINEDRAW
  To sew up, so nicely that the seam is not perceived; to renter. Marryat.
• INDRAWN
  Drawn in.
• INSUFFERABLY
  In a manner or to a degree beyond endurance; intolerably; as, a blaze insufferably bright; a person insufferably proud.