Track

[træk]

Definition

(noun.) the act of participating in an athletic competition involving running on a track.

(noun.) any road or path affording passage especially a rough one.

(noun.) a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll.

(noun.) a pair of parallel rails providing a runway for wheels.

(noun.) a groove on a phonograph recording.

(noun.) (computer science) one of the circular magnetic paths on a magnetic disk that serve as a guide for writing and reading data.

(noun.) an endless metal belt on which tracked vehicles move over the ground.

(verb.) make tracks upon.

(verb.) carry on the feet and deposit; 'track mud into the house'.

(verb.) observe or plot the moving path of something; 'track a missile'.

Inputed by Lewis--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) A mark left by something that has passed along; as, the track, or wake, of a ship; the track of a meteor; the track of a sled or a wheel.

(n.) A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or beast; trace; vestige; footprint.

(n.) The entire lower surface of the foot; -- said of birds, etc.

(n.) A road; a beaten path.

(n.) Course; way; as, the track of a comet.

(n.) A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc.

(n.) The permanent way; the rails.

(n.) A tract or area, as of land.

(v. t.) To follow the tracks or traces of; to pursue by following the marks of the feet; to trace; to trail; as, to track a deer in the snow.

(v. t.) To draw along continuously, as a vessel, by a line, men or animals on shore being the motive power; to tow.

Typist: Shelley

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. [1]. Footprint, footmark, footstep, trail, wake, trace.[2]. Course, way, road, path, pathway.[3]. Lines of rails (on a railway).

v. a. Follow (by a track), trace, trail, pursue, chase.

Editor: Tamara

Synonyms and Antonyms

[See DALLY]

SYN:Mark, footprint, trace, course, trail, way, vestige,[See TRACE]

Typist: Millie

Definition

v.t. to follow by marks or footsteps: to tow: to traverse: to make marks upon.—n. a mark left: footprint: a beaten path: course laid out for horse foot or bicycle races: the two continuous lines of rails on which railway carriages run.—ns. Track′age a drawing or towing as of a boat; Track′-boat a boat towed by a line from the shore; Track′-clear′er a guard in front of the wheels of a locomotive &c. to clear any obstruction from the track; Track′er one who or that which tracks; Track′-lay′er a workman engaged in laying railway-tracks.—adj. Track′less without a path: untrodden.—adv. Track′lessly.—ns. Track′lessness; Track′man one who has charge of a railway-track; Track′-road a towing-path; Track′-walk′er a trackman having charge of a certain section of railway-track.—In one's tracks just where one stands; Make tracks to go away hastily to decamp; Make tracks for to go after; Off the track derailed of a railway carriage &c.: away from the proper subject.

Edited by Beverly

Examples

Checked by Hillel

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