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nounthe friction between a body and the surface on which it moves (as between an automobile tire and the road)
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"his leg was in traction for several days"noun(orthopedics) the act of pulling on a bone or limb (as in a fracture) to relieve pressure or align parts in a special way during healing
Definition that contains traction
- love a deep feeling of sexual desire and attraction
- thing a special abstraction
- heart the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body
- dream a state of mind characterized by abstraction and release from reality
- beat the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart
- picture a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface
- teacher a personified abstraction that teaches
- difference the number that remains after subtraction; the number that when added to the subtrahend gives the minuend
- gas the state of matter distinguished from the solid and liquid states by: relatively low density and viscosity; relatively great expansion and contraction with changes in pressure and temperature; the ability to diffuse readily; and the spontaneous tendency to become distributed uniformly throughout any container
- image a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface