exclusive(2) (iou) and protract (medicine)

exclusive(2) (iou)

exclusive noun & adjective. L15.
[medieval Latin exclusivus, from Latin exclus-: see EXCLUSION, -IVE.]
A. noun.
An excluding agent. Only in L15.
An exclusive proposition or word: see sense B.1 below. M16.
An exclusive person: see sense B.7 below. E19.
Hist. An Australian exclusionist. M19.
An exclusive news item, article, etc.: see sense B.5b below. E20.
b. adjective.
Of a proposition: in which the predicate is asserted to apply to the subject specified and no Other. Of a word: effecting such a restriction. L16.
Of a statement, enumeration, etc.: excluding something, spec. one or both of the specified terminal points. M17.
= EXCLUSORY. rare. M17.
exclusive voice the right of veto.
Not admitting of the simultaneous existence of something; incompatible. E18.
exclusive OR: see OR noun2.
G. B. Shaw A confusion of the mutually exclusive functions of judge and legislator.
Of a right, privilege, quality, etc.: possessed or enjoyed by the individual(s) specified and no others; confined or restricted to. M18.
E. Waugh There would be a sitting room for your exclusive use.
b. Of a news item, article, etc.: published solely in one specified newspaper or periodical. Of a design, product, etc.: (stated to be) available from only one establishment or firm. (Foll. by to.) M19.
Daily Telegraph Furs from Grosvenor Canada..are exclusive to Harrods.
Pursued, employed, etc., to the exclusion of all else; sole, only. L18.
C. Darwin Natural Selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification. H. Spencer Exclusive devotion to work has the result that amusements cease to please.
Of a group, esp. a social circle, or a member of one: (excessively) reluctant to admit outsiders to membership. E19.
Exclusive Brethren: see BROTHER noun.
T. Benn An exclusive priestly caste claiming a monopoly right to speak on behalf of the Almighty.
Of an establishment etc.: used or patronized by a restricted (esp. aristocratic) social group; high-class, fashionable. M20.
J. Conrad Her movements are commented on in the most exclusive drawing-rooms. London Calling Claridges, probably the most exclusive hotel in the world.
exclusively adverb (a) to the exclusion of all else; formerly (foll. by of, to), to the exclusion of specified persons or things; (b) = EXCLUSIVE adverb 1: LME.
exclusiveness noun M18.
exclusivism noun a doctrine or policy of systematic exclusion, esp. of foreigners; the practice of excluding: M19.
exclusivist noun & adjective (a) noun an advocate of exclusivism; also, a person who maintains the exclusive validity of a theory; (b) adjective advocating or practising exclusivism: L19.
exclusi'vistic adjective exclusivist; exclusive: M20.
exclu'sivity noun the quality of being exclusive; the right to exclusive use: E20.

protract (medicine)

protract

1. To draw out or lengthen in time or (rarely) in space; to continue; to prolong; as, to protract an argument; to protract a war.

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

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

4. <zoology> To extend; to protrude; as, the cat can protract its claws; opposed to retract.

Origin: L. Protractus, p. P. Of protrahere to forth, protract; pro forward + trahere to draw. See Portrait, Portray.

Source: Websters Dictionary

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