track (træk
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Definitions
noun
- the mark or trail left by something that has passed by ⇒
the track of an animal
- any road or path affording passage, esp a rough one
- a rail or pair of parallel rails on which a vehicle, such as a locomotive, runs, esp the rails together with the sleepers, ballast, etc, on a railway
- a course of action, thought, etc ⇒
don't start on that track again!
- a line of motion or travel, such as flight
- an endless jointed metal band driven by the wheels of a vehicle such as a tank or tractor to enable it to move across rough or muddy ground
- physics the path of a particle of ionizing radiation as observed in a cloud chamber, bubble chamber, or photographic emulsion
- a course for running or racing
- ((as modifier) ⇒
track events
- US Canadian
- sports performed on a track
- track and field events as a whole
- a path on a magnetic recording medium, esp magnetic tape, on which information, such as music or speech, from a single input channel is recorded
- any of a number of separate sections in the recording on a record, CD, or cassette
- a metal path that makes the interconnections on an integrated circuit
- the distance between the points of contact with the ground of a pair of wheels, such as the front wheels of a motor vehicle or the paired wheels of an aircraft undercarriage
- a hypothetical trace made on the surface of the earth by a point directly below an aircraft in flight
- See keep track of
- See lose track of
- See off the beaten track
- See off the track
- See on the track of
- See the right track
- See the wrong track
verb
- to follow the trail of (a person, animal, etc)
- to follow the flight path of (a satellite, spacecraft, etc) by picking up radio or radar signals transmitted or reflected by it
- US railways
- to provide with a track
- to run on a track of (a certain width)
- (of a camera or camera operator) to follow (a moving object) in any direction while operating
- to move (a camera) towards the scene (track in) or away from the scene (track out)
- to follow a track through (a place) ⇒
to track the jungles
- (intr) (of the pick-up, stylus, etc, of a record player) to follow the groove of a record ⇒
the pick-up tracks badly
Alternative Forms
ˈtrackable adjective ˈtracker noun Word Origin
C15: from Old French trac , probably of Germanic origin; related to Middle Dutch tracken to pull, Middle Low German trecken ; compare Norwegian trakke to trample
Synonyms
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follow,
pursue,
chase,
trace,
tail,
dog,
shadow,
trail,
stalk,
hunt down,
follow the trail of
