Difference between Prolong and Protract

PROLONG vs PROTRACT: NOUN

A prolongation: used specifically of an extension or elongated mouthpiece or chamber on retorts for the manufacture of zinc products or for the handling of other oxids which are volatile at high temperatures.

To draw out or lengthen in time; prolong.
To extend or protrude (a body part).
To draw out or lengthen in time or (rarely) in space; to continue; to prolong
To put off to a distant time; to delay; to defer.
To draw to a scale; to lay down the lines and angles of, with scale and protractor; to plot.
To extend; to protrude; ; -- opposed to retract.
To draw to scale by means of a scale and protractor; plot.

To lengthen out in space; extend in general.
To delay; defer; put off to a distant time.
In surveying, to draw to a scale; lay down, by means of a scale and protractor, the lines and angles of, as a piece of land; plot.
In anatomy, to draw forward (a part or an organ); extend (a part) anteriorly; have the action or effect of a protractor upon.
Lengthen in time
Cause to be or last longer

Prorogue, Expand, Maintain, Drag, Delay, Continue, Renew, Postpone, Perpetuate, Lengthen, Draw out, Keep up, Sustain, Extend, Protract

Obviate, Derail, Complicate, Politicize, Embitter, Ameliorate, Forestall, Protractile, Frustrate, Shorten, Embroil, Lengthen, Draw out, Extend, Prolong

Diminish, Intensify, Shorten, Stretch, Increase, Expand, Drag, Delay, Continue, Renew, Perpetuate, Lengthen, Draw out, Extend, Protract

Obviate, Derail, Complicate, Politicize, Embitter, Ameliorate, Forestall, Protractile, Frustrate, Shorten, Embroil, Lengthen, Draw out, Extend, Prolong

These exchanges serve to prolong interactions with others.
Hospice seeks neither to shorten nor prolong life.
Meticore results and decide to prolong its use.
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Can we prolong life with a new treatment?
Well, I do not want to prolong this.
Coadministration of pazopanib and other drugs that prolong the QT interval is not advised; pazopanib has been reported to prolong the QT interval.
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And so all we did in the end, was prolong the civil war, was prolong the misery.
Health care providers now have the means to prolong life and in some cases prolong the dying process.

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Should the booking curve protract, NCLH gets squeezed on both the balance sheet and income statement.
At the very least, the Egyptian court rulings will seriously complicate and protract any enforcement proceedings.
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Cross your arms in front of you and protract your shoulders.
It does not protract itself beyond the required length of a book.
Its primary function is to laterally rotate and protract the scapula.
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Students need a protract to complete the homework.