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Definitions and meaning of retract

retract

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈtɹækt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɹəˈtɹækt/, /-ɹi/
• Rhymes: -ækt
• Hyphenation: re‧tract

Etymology 1

From Late Middle English retracten, retract (“to absorb, draw in”), from Latin retractus (“withdrawn”), the perfect passive participle of Latin retrahō (“to draw or pull back, withdraw; to bring back; to compel to turn back; to recall; to get back, recover; to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”) (apparently ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tregʰ- (“to drag, pull (?)”), a variant of *dʰregʰ- (“to drag, pull; to run”)). Doublet of retreat.

Verb

retract (third-person singular simple present retracts, present participle retracting, simple past and past participle retracted)

1. (transitive)
   1. To pull (something) back or back inside.

      Synonym: pull back

      1. (specifically, zoology) To draw (an extended body part) back into the body.

         Antonyms: extend, protrude

   2. (rare) To avert (one's eyes or a gaze).
   3. (phonetics) To pronounce (a sound, especially a vowel) farther to the back of the vocal tract.
   4. (obsolete) To hold back (something); to restrain.
2. (intransitive) To draw back; to draw up; to withdraw.

Derived terms

Related terms

• nonretraction
• retraction
• retractive
• retreat

Translations

Etymology 2

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• from Late Latin retractus (“a pulling back, retreat; refuge”), from Latin retractus (“withdrawn”), the perfect passive participle of Latin retrahō (“to draw or pull back, withdraw; to bring back; to compel to turn back; to recall; to get back, recover; to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.

Noun

retract (plural retracts) (obsolete)

1. An act of retracting or withdrawing (a mistake, a statement, etc.); a retraction.
2. A pulling back, especially (military) of an army or military troops; a pull-back, a retreat; also, a signal for this to be done.
3. (group theory) A 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: ${\displaystyle H}$ in ${\displaystyle G}$ is a retract of ${\displaystyle G}$ if there exists a surjective homomorphism ${\displaystyle \sigma }$ from ${\displaystyle G}$ to ${\displaystyle H}$ with ${\displaystyle \sigma |_{H}=\operatorname {id} }$.
4. (topology) The target of a retraction.
5. Synonym of retreat (“an act of accidentally injuring a horse's foot by incorrectly nailing it during shoeing”)

Derived terms

• deformation retract

Etymology 3

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”) (see further at etymology 1) + -tō (frequentative suffix forming verbs)).

Verb

retract (third-person singular simple present retracts, present participle retracting, simple past and past participle retracted)

1. (transitive)
   1. To cancel or take back (something, such as an edict or a favour or grant previously bestowed); to rescind, to revoke.
   2. To break or fail to keep (a promise, etc.); to renege.
   3. To take back or withdraw (something that has been said or written); to disavow, to repudiate.

      Synonyms: unsay, (rare) unspeak, walk back, withcall, withdraw; see also Thesaurus:recant

      Antonyms: affirm, confirm, maintain
   4. (games) Originally 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).
2. (intransitive)
   1. To decline or fail to do something promised; to break one's word.
   2. Of something said or written (such as published academic work): to take back or withdraw.
   3. (card games, archaic) To change one's mind after declaring an intention to make a certain move.

Conjugation

Derived terms

• retracted (adjective)
• retractile
• retracting (adjective, noun)
• retraction
• retractor

Related terms

• retractate (obsolete)
• retractation
• retractative (rare)

Translations

See also

• epanorthosis (rhetoric)

References

Further reading

• relative articulation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• retraction (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia