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Definitions for track
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. path, track, coursenoun

    a line or route along which something travels or moves

    "the hurricane demolished houses in its path"; "the track of an animal"; "the course of the river"

  2. lead, track, trailnoun

    evidence pointing to a possible solution

    "the police are following a promising lead"; "the trail led straight to the perpetrator"

  3. tracknoun

    a pair of parallel rails providing a runway for wheels

  4. racetrack, racecourse, raceway, tracknoun

    a course over which races are run

  5. cut, tracknoun

    a distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc

    "he played the first cut on the cd"; "the title track of the album"

  6. track, caterpillar track, caterpillar treadnoun

    an endless metal belt on which tracked vehicles move over the ground

  7. track, data tracknoun

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

  8. tracknoun

    a groove on a phonograph recording

  9. track, rail, rails, runwaynoun

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

  10. track, cart track, cartroadnoun

    any road or path affording passage especially a rough one

  11. track, runningverb

    the act of participating in an athletic competition involving running on a track

  12. trackverb

    carry on the feet and deposit

    "track mud into the house"

  13. trackverb

    observe or plot the moving path of something

    "track a missile"

  14. chase, chase after, trail, tail, tag, give chase, dog, go after, trackverb

    go after with the intent to catch

    "The policeman chased the mugger down the alley"; "the dog chased the rabbit"

  15. traverse, track, cover, cross, pass over, get over, get across, cut through, cut acrossverb

    travel across or pass over

    "The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day"

  16. trackverb

    make tracks upon

Wiktionary

  1. tracknoun

    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.

  2. tracknoun

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

  3. tracknoun

    The entire lower surface of the foot; said of birds, etc.

  4. tracknoun

    A road; a beaten path.

  5. tracknoun

    Course; way; as, the track of a comet.

  6. tracknoun

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

  7. tracknoun

    The permanent way; the rails.

  8. tracknoun

    A tract or area, as of land.

  9. tracknoun

    The distance between two opposite wheels on a same axletree (also track width)

  10. trackverb

    To observe the (measured) state of an object over time

  11. trackverb

    To monitor the movement of a person or object.

  12. trackverb

    To discover the location of a person or object (usually in the form track down).

  13. trackverb

    To follow the tracks of.

    My uncle spent all day tracking the deer.

  14. tracknoun

    Short for caterpillar track.

  15. tracknoun

    The pitch.

  16. tracknoun

    Sound stored on a record.

  17. tracknoun

    The physical track on a record.

  18. tracknoun

    A song or other relatively short piece of music, on a record, separated from others by a short silence

  19. tracknoun

    Circular (never-ending) data storage unit on a side of magnetic or optical disk, divided into sectors.

  20. tracknoun

    The racing events of track and field; track and field in general.

    I'm going to try out for track next week.

  21. tracknoun

    A session talk on a conference.

  22. Etymology: (noun) From trac (French: traque), from a Germanic source akin to Old Norse traðk "trodden place, track" (norw. trakke "to trample"), Dutch: trek, Middle Low German: treck.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Tracknoun

    Etymology: trac, old French; traccia, Italian.

    Following the track of Satan. John Milton.

    Hung by the neck and hair, and dragg’d around,
    The hostile spear yet sticking in his wound,
    With tracks of blood inscrib’d the dusty ground. Dryden.

    Consider the exterior frame of the globe, if we may find any tracks or footsteps of wisdom in its constitution. Richard Bentley.

    With track oblique sidelong he works his way. John Milton.

    Behold Torquatus the same track persue,
    And next, the two devoted Decii view. John Dryden, Æn.

  2. To Trackverb

    To follow by the footsteps or marks left in the way.

    Etymology: from the noun.

    As shepherd’s cur that in dark evening’s shade
    Hath tracked forth some savage beast’s treade. Fa. Queen.

    He was not only a professed imitator of Quintus Horatius Flaccus, but a learned plagiary in all the others; you track him everywhere in their snow. Dryden.

ChatGPT

  1. track

    A track is a linear pathway, often used in the context of transportation, sports, or music. It can refer to a physical path or route that vehicles, athletes, or animals follow, or it can denote a specific recorded piece of music. In different contexts, a track may also refer to a monitoring system, a section of a railway, or a data track on a storage medium.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Tracknoun

    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

  2. Tracknoun

    a mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or beast; trace; vestige; footprint

  3. Tracknoun

    the entire lower surface of the foot; -- said of birds, etc

  4. Tracknoun

    a road; a beaten path

  5. Tracknoun

    course; way; as, the track of a comet

  6. Tracknoun

    a path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc

  7. Tracknoun

    the permanent way; the rails

  8. Tracknoun

    a tract or area, as of land

  9. Trackverb

    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

  10. Trackverb

    to draw along continuously, as a vessel, by a line, men or animals on shore being the motive power; to tow

Wikidata

  1. Track

    On an optical disc, a track (CD) or title is a subdivision of its content. Specifically, it is a consecutive set of sectors on the disc containing a block of data. One session may contain one or more tracks of the same or different types. There are several kinds of tracks, and there is also a sub-track index for finding points within a track.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Track

    trak, 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. [Fr. trac—Dut. trek, draught, trekken, to draw.]

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms

  1. track

    1. A series of related contacts displayed on a data display console or other display device. 2. To display or record the successive positions of a moving object. 3. To lock onto a point of radiation and obtain guidance therefrom. 4. To keep a gun properly aimed, or to point continuously a target-locating instrument at a moving target. 5. The actual path of an aircraft above or a ship on the surface of the Earth. The course is the path that is planned; the track is the path that is actually taken. 6. One of the two endless belts on which a full-track or half-track vehicle runs. 7. A metal part forming a path for a moving object; e.g., the track around the inside of a vehicle for moving a mounted machine gun.

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  1. Track

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Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. track

    In gunnery, by track is understood the distance between the furrows formed by the wheels of artillery carriages in the ground. It is important that the track should be the same for all carriages likely to travel the same road, in order that the wheels of one carriage may follow in the furrows formed by those of its predecessor, and thereby prevent a loss of tractile force. The track of artillery carriages is 5 feet, and the extreme length of the axle-tree is 61⁄2 feet for field-, and 63⁄4 feet for siege-carriages.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. TRACK

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Track is ranked #99378 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Track surname appeared 182 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Track.

    41.2% or 75 total occurrences were White.
    34.6% or 63 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    12.6% or 23 total occurrences were Black.
    4.9% or 9 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    3.3% or 6 total occurrences were Asian.
    3.3% or 6 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'track' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1840

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'track' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2062

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'track' in Nouns Frequency: #613

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of track in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of track in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of track in a Sentence

  1. Donald Trump:

    I'm not overpromising. I don't know who said it but whatever the maximum is, whatever you can humanly do, we're going to have, i hope we're going to have a vaccine, and we're going to fast-track it like you've never seen before, if we come with a vaccine. I think they probably will.

  2. Heidi Montagmade:

    I think that I just became so consumed by this character that I was playing that I became that girl and lost track of this small-town Colorado girl, i just love the simple life. I like nature, I like different things and I kind of became consumed in a different world.

  3. Bret Bielema:

    Everybody wants to concentrate on why we lost, and believe me I’m diving into that knee deep and going through it. But I want you to understand that it’s actually a step in the right direction to be disappointed that we finished close, we’ve got to get ourselves back on track.

  4. Ken Farnaso:

    President Trump's proven track record of success shows that he is the man needed to meet this moment and usher in yet another economic renaissance.

  5. Jukka Oksaharju:

    They are well on track with this deal, it seems they have calculated the deal's 'margins of safety' rather carefully. Now, they can keep up a positive news flow.

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Translations for track

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  • مسارArabic
  • stopa, cesta, dráha, kolej, sledovat, najít, objevit, vystopovat, vypátrat, stopovatCzech
  • sporeDanish
  • Fußspur, verfolgenGerman
  • κομμάτι, αυλακιά, τροχιά, ίχνος, μετατρόχιο, μονοπάτι, ατραπός, πατημασιά, στίβος, ράγα, πίσταGreek
  • troviEsperanto
  • rastro, vía, surco, huella, pistaSpanish
  • مسیرPersian
  • jälki, jalkapohja, polku, rata, kenttä, ääniraita, raita, yleisurheilu, jalanjälki, kulku-ura, raideleveys, syöttö, seurata, jäljittää, varjostaaFinnish
  • empreinte, route, voie, trace, marque, sillon, sentier, chemin, pisteFrench
  • sligheScottish Gaelic
  • עקב, שביל, נתיב, מסלול, עקבותHebrew
  • ट्रैकHindi
  • nyomon kHungarian
  • հետք, ուղի, վազքուղի, շավիղ, ռելսուղիArmenian
  • jalurIndonesian
  • lagIcelandic
  • scia, tracciamento, sentiero, mulattiera, pista, traccia, passo, sessione, pista battuta, viottolo, impronta, binario, solco, discorso, rintracciare, seguire, tracciare, monitorareItalian
  • מַסלוּלHebrew
  • 追, トラックJapanese
  • 선로Korean
  • vestigium, GloriaLatin
  • maheu, makenu, mokenuMāori
  • трага, патека, пат, коловоз, нумера, стапкаMacedonian
  • jejak, jalanMalay
  • voetspoor, spoorDutch
  • sporNorwegian
  • torPolish
  • rastro, faixa, pista, pegada, monitorar, rastrearPortuguese
  • pistă de circulație, bandă rutieră, drum, urmăriRomanian
  • трек, дорожка, след, дорога, тропа, трасса, путь, тракт, колеяRussian
  • koľajSlovak
  • spåraSwedish
  • பாடல்Tamil
  • ลู่Thai
  • izTurkish
  • трекUkrainian
  • ٹریکUrdu
  • đường rayVietnamese
  • שפּורYiddish
  • 跟踪Chinese

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