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
- The manifest advantage of an even track for the wheels long ago suggested the idea of laying down wood and other hard, smooth surfaces for carriages to run upon. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Mr. Edison himself supplies the following data: During the electric-railway experiments at Menlo Park, we had a short spur of track up one of the steep gullies. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- They are for the use of horses, but they are shaped below with a cloven foot of iron, so as to throw pursuers off the track. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Is there a track across here to Mis'ess Yeobright's house? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Loker, he said, after a pause, we must set Adams and Springer on the track of these yer; they've been booked some time. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- If extended in straight lines, it would build a track of two rails to the moon, and more than a hundred thousand miles beyond it. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- I pointed to the spot where he had disappeared, and we followed the track with boats; nets were cast, but in vain. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- We may fight here if they follow these horse tracks. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- You did not see it because I led you not in the beaten tracks, but through roundabout passages seldom used. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- He was not even following the tracks up to the post. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- There were streetcar tracks and beyond them was the cathedral. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Down the tracks a way was a flag-station and I could see soldiers on guard. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- We crossed the tram tracks. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Over one-half million miles of these railway tracks are on the earth's surface to-day! William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Margaret might be assured he would take every precaution against being tracked by Leonards. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Does the vision Moore has tracked occupy that chair? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He laid it between us on the table; and, with his chin resting on one hand, tracked his course upon it with the other. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Then, I tracked the brother here, and last night climbed in--a common dog, but sword in hand. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- He managed to find employment with Morse Hudson, and in that way tracked down three of them. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The snow stopped and they tracked them up there. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- But one of them yet remained in the darkness before her; and while she tracked that one she must be right. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Two resolute men, well acquainted with these northern wilds, and skilful in tracking the tread of man and horse. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Feeling that the persons whose course I was tracking must necessarily have entered the plantation at this point, I entered it too. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
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