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Definition of 'track'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) track
a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.

2.  track
a wheel rut.

3.  track
evidence, as a mark or a series of marks, that something has passed.

4.  track
Usu., tracks. footprints or other marks left by an animal, person, or vehicle.

5.  track
a path made or beaten by or as if by the feet of people or animals; trail.

6.  track
a course or route followed; line of travel.

7.  track
a course of action, conduct, or procedure.

8.  track
a series or sequence of events or ideas.

9.  track
a caterpillar tread.

10.  track
a course laid out for running or racing.

11.  track
the group of sports performed on such a course, as running or hurdling, as distinguished from field events.

12.  track
both track and field events as a whole.

13.  track
a band of recorded sound laid along the length of a magnetic tape.

14.  track
a discrete, separate recording that is combined with other parts of a musical recording to produce the final aural version.

15.  track
the distance between the centers of the treads of either the front or rear wheels of a motor vehicle.

16.  track
one of a number of concentric rings on the surface of a floppy disk, or other computer storage medium, along which data are recorded.

17.  track
Slang. needle marks on the skin of a drug user caused by habitual injections.

18.  track
a metal strip or rail along which something, as lighting or a curtain, can be mounted or moved.

19.  track
a study program or level of curriculum to which a student is assigned on the basis of aptitude or need; academic course or path.

20. (v.t.) track
to follow or pursue the track, traces, or footprints of.

21.  track
to follow (a track, course, etc.).

22.  track
to leave footprints on (often fol. by up):
to track the floor with muddy shoes.

23.  track
to make a trail of footprints with (dirt, snow, or the like).

24.  track
to monitor the course or path of (an aircraft, satellite, star, etc.), as by radar or radio signals.

25.  track
to follow the course of progress of; keep track of.

26. (v.i.) track
to follow or pursue a track or trail.

27.  track
to run in the same track, as the wheels of a vehicle.

28.  track
to be in alignment, as one gearwheel with another.

29.  track
to have a specified span between wheels or runners.

30.  track
to follow the undulations in the grooves of a phonograph record.

31.  track
track down, to pursue until caught or captured; follow.

Definition of 'track'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) path, track, course
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. (noun) lead, track, trail
evidence pointing to a possible solution
"the police are following a promising lead"; "the trail led straight to the perpetrator"

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

4. (noun) racetrack, racecourse, raceway, track
a course over which races are run

5. (noun) cut, track
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. (noun) track, caterpillar track, caterpillar tread
an endless metal belt on which tracked vehicles move over the ground

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

8. (noun) track
a groove on a phonograph recording

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

10. (noun) track, cart track, cartroad
any road or path affording passage especially a rough one

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

12. (verb) track
carry on the feet and deposit
"track mud into the house"

13. (verb) track
observe or plot the moving path of something
"track a missile"

14. (verb) chase, chase after, trail, tail, tag, give chase, dog, go after, track
go after with the intent to catch
"The policeman chased the mugger down the alley"; "the dog chased the rabbit"

15. (verb) traverse, track, cover, cross, pass over, get over, get across, cut through, cut across
travel across or pass over
"The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day"

16. (verb) track
make tracks upon

Definition of 'track'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) track
the metal bars a train moves along
damaged areas of track; He stood on the railroad tracks.

2.  track
a trail in the country

3.  track
a circular path on which races happen
a dog/horse track

4.  track
the sport of running in races
track and field events; He ran track in high school.

5.  track
one of the pieces in a recorded collection of music
Play track 15.

6.  track
keep track
to watch and be aware of how sth is progressing
I can't keep track of all my nieces and their jobs.

7.  track
lose track
to fail to watch or be aware of how sth is progressing or being done
I lost track of how many times I explained it.

8.  track
on the right/wrong track
doing sth in a way that is likely to lead to success/failure
The country is on the wrong track in the way it deals with terrorism.

9.  track
on track
progressing as expected and likely to succeed
The department is on track to meet its sales targets.

10. (verb) track
to follow where a person or animal has gone
Electronic equipment helps us track the dolphins.

11.  track
to watch how sth progresses or develops
It is her job to track the cost of various products.

Definition of 'track'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) track
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. (noun) track
a mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or beast; trace; vestige; footprint

3. (noun) track
the entire lower surface of the foot; -- said of birds, etc

4. (noun) track
a road; a beaten path

5. (noun) track
course; way; as, the track of a comet

6. (noun) track
a path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc

7. (noun) track
the permanent way; the rails

8. (noun) track
a tract or area, as of land

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

Definition of 'track'

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.

Translation of 'track'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a mark left, especially a footprint etc They followed the lion's tracks.
Afrikaans: spore	Arabic: أثَر	Bulgarian: следа
Brazilian: rastro	Czech: stopa	German: die Fährte
Danish: spor	Greek: πατημασιά, ίχνος	Spanish: rastro, huella, pista
Estonian: jälg	Farsi: جای پا؛ رد	Finnish: jälki
French: trace	Hebrew: עִקבוֹת	Hindi: लीक
Croatian: trag	Hungarian: (láb)nyom	Indonesian: jejak
Icelandic: far, spor, slóð	Italian: traccia	Japanese: 足跡
Korean: 지나간 자국	Lithuanian: pėdsakas	Latvian: pēdas (nospiedums)
Malay: jejak-jejak`	Dutch: voetspoor	Norwegian: spor, far, fotavtrykk
Polish: ślad, trop	Persian: جای پا؛ رد	Pashto: د پښی پل
Portuguese: rasto	Romanian: urmă	Russian: след
Slovak: stopa	Slovenian: sled	Serbian: trag
Swedish: spår	Thai: รอยเท้า	Turkish: iz
Taiwanese: 痕跡	Ukrainian: слід	Urdu: نقش قدم
Vietnamese: dấu vết	Chinese: 痕迹
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