retract
VerbSubstantivVerbin Dialogen belegt
- Vereinigte Staaten//ɹɪˈtɹækt//
- Vereinigte Staaten//ɹiˈtɹækt//
- Vereinigte Staaten//ɹəˈtɹækt//
- Australien//ɹɪˈtɹækt//
To pull (something) back or back inside.
Verb
- 1
To pull (something) back or back inside.
An airplane retracts its wheels for flight.
The collector shoes are automatically retracted when the electric handle is moved from "service off" to "lock off".
- 2
To pull (something) back or back inside. To draw (an extended body part) back into the body.
A cat can retract its claws.
- 3
seltenTo avert (one's eyes or a gaze).
- 4
To pronounce (a sound, especially a vowel) farther to the back of the vocal tract.
- 5
veraltetTo hold back (something); to restrain.
- 6
To draw back; to draw up; to withdraw.
The bus was stuck at the stop as its wheelchair ramp wouldn’t retract after use.
Muscles retract after amputation.
Herkunft
From Late Middle English retracten, retract (“to absorb, draw in”), from Latin retractus (“withdrawn”), the perfect passive participle of Latin retrahō (“to draw or pull back, withdraw; to bring back; to compel to turn back; to recall; to get back, recover; to hold back, restrain, withhold; to remove, take away; to bring to light again; (Late Latin) to delay”), from re- (prefix meaning ‘again’) + trahō (“to drag, pull; to extract, withdraw”). Doublet of retreat.
Substantiv
- 1
veraltetAn act of retracting or withdrawing (a mistake, a statement, etc.); a retraction.
[T]hey began to finde fault with Poeſie, […] ſaying, that metaphors æmigmaticall, and covert words, yea and the ambiguities which Poetry uſeth, were but ſhifts, retracts, and evaſions to hide and cover all, whenſoever the events fell not out accordingly.
- 2
veraltetA pulling back, especially (military) of an army or military troops; a pull-back, a retreat; also, a signal for this to be done.
Theſe Græcians alſo that made the retract, aduiſed Darius [III] to retire his Armie into the plaine of Meſopotamia, to the end that Alexander being entred into thoſe large fields and great Champions, he might haue inuironed the Macedonians on all ſides with his multitude; […]
- 3
veraltetA subgroup of a given group such that there is a surjective endomorphism from the ambient group to the subgroup which is constant on the subgroup; in this case the subgroup is a retract of the ambient group. In symbols: H in G is a retract of G if there exists a surjective homomorphism σ from G to H with σ|_H= operatorname id.
- 4
veraltetThe target of a retraction.
- 5
veraltetSynonym of retreat (“an act of accidentally injuring a horse's foot by incorrectly nailing it during shoeing”).
Herkunft
Partly: * from retract (verb) (see etymology 1); and * from Late Latin retractus (“a pulling back, retreat; refuge”), from Latin retractus (“withdrawn”), the perfect passive participle of Latin retrahō (“to draw or pull back, withdraw; to bring back; to compel to turn back; to recall; to get back, recover; to hold back, restrain, withhold; to remove, take away; to bring to light again; (Late Latin) to delay”) (see etymology 1) + -tus (suffix forming action nouns from verbs). Doublet of retrait, retreat, and ritratto.
Verb
- 1
veraltetTo cancel or take back (something, such as an edict or a favour or grant previously bestowed); to rescind, to revoke.
Fill'd with the Satisfaction of their own diſcerning Faculties, they [natural history writers] paſs Judgment at firſt ſight; write on, and are above being ever brought to retract it.
- 2
veraltetTo break or fail to keep (a promise, etc.); to renege.
- 3
veraltetTo take back or withdraw (something that has been said or written); to disavow, to repudiate.
I retract all the accusations I made about the senator and sincerely hope he won’t sue me.
And yet this Pope himſelf, not many years after, retracted this Bull; […]
She will, and ſhe will not; ſhe grants, denies, / Conſents, retracts, advances, and then flies, / Approving and rejecting in a Breath, / Now proff'ring Mercy, now preſenting Death!
He has also suggested in a newspaper interview that China could be appeased if it were given partial control of Taiwan. An official in Taipei demanded that he retract his suggestion.
- 4
veraltetOriginally in chess and now in other games as well: to take back or undo (a move); specifically (card games) to take back or withdraw (a card which has been played).
- 5
veraltetTo decline or fail to do something promised; to break one's word.
- 6
veraltetOf something said or written (such as published academic work): to take back or withdraw.
"Challenger was the man who came with some cock-and-bull story from South America." / "What story?" / "Oh, it was rank nonsense about some queer animals he had discovered. I believe he has retracted since. Anyhow, he has suppressed it all. He gave an interview to Reuter's, and there was such a howl that he saw it wouldn't do.["]
- 7
altertümlichTo change one's mind after declaring an intention to make a certain move.
Herkunft
From Middle French rétracter (“to annul; to reconsider; to withdraw”) (modern French rétracter (“to retract; to contract”)), and from its etymon Latin retractāre, the present active infinitive of retractō (“to retract, withdraw; to annul, revoke; to detract from; to undertake again; to reconsider; to remember; to decline, refuse”), from re- (prefix meaning ‘again’) + tractō (“to drag, haul, tug”) (from trahō (“to drag, pull; to extract, withdraw”) + -tō (frequentative suffix forming verbs)).
Formen
- Plural
- retracts
- Präteritum
- retracted
- Partizip II
- retracted
- Partizip I
- retracting
- 3. Person Singular
- retracts
retract · To pull (something) back or back inside.
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