Definitions for tracker
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
tracktræk(n.)
a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
Category: Railroads
a wheel rut.
evidence, as a mark or a series of marks, that something has passed.
Usu., tracks. footprints or other marks left by an animal, person, or vehicle.
a path made or beaten by or as if by the feet of people or animals; trail.
a course or route followed; line of travel.
a course of action, conduct, or procedure.
a series or sequence of events or ideas.
a caterpillar tread.
Category: Transportation
a course laid out for running or racing. the group of sports performed on such a course, as running or hurdling, as distinguished from field events. both track and field events as a whole.
Category: Sport
a band of recorded sound laid along the length of a magnetic tape. a discrete, separate recording that is combined with other parts of a musical recording to produce the final aural version.
Category: Common Vocabulary, Hi-Fi and Audio
Ref: band2 (def. 5). 2 6
the distance between the centers of the treads of either the front or rear wheels of a motor vehicle.
Category: Automotive
one of a number of concentric rings on the surface of a floppy disk, or other computer storage medium, along which data are recorded.
Category: Computers
tracks,Slang. needle marks on the skin of a drug user caused by habitual injections.
Category: Common Vocabulary, Status (usage)
a metal strip or rail along which something, as lighting or a curtain, can be mounted or moved.
Category: Furniture
a study program or level of curriculum to which a student is assigned on the basis of aptitude or need; academic course or path.
Category: Education
(v.t.)to follow or pursue the track, traces, or footprints of.
to follow (a track, course, etc.).
to leave footprints on (often fol. by up):
to track the floor with muddy shoes.
to make a trail of footprints with (dirt, snow, or the like).
to monitor the course or path of (an aircraft, satellite, star, etc.), as by radar or radio signals.
Category: Aeronautics
to follow the course of progress of; keep track of.
(v.i.)to follow or pursue a track or trail.
to run in the same track, as the wheels of a vehicle.
Category: Transportation
to be in alignment, as one gearwheel with another.
Category: Machinery
to have a specified span between wheels or runners.
Category: Transportation
to follow the undulations in the grooves of a phonograph record.
Category: Hi-Fi and Audio
track down, to pursue until caught or captured; follow.
Category: Verb Phrase
Idioms for track:
keep track,to remain aware; keep informed.
Category: Idiom
lose track,to fail to keep informed; neglect to keep a record.
Category: Idiom
make tracks,Informal.to hurry.
Category: Idiom
off the track,departing from the objective or the subject at hand; astray.
Category: Idiom
on the track of,in search or pursuit of; close upon.
Category: Idiom
the wrong (or right ) side of the tracks,the unfashionable, unacceptable (or fashionable, acceptable) part of a city or other community.
Category: Idiom
Origin of track:
1425–75; late ME trak (n.) < MF trac, perh. < ON trathk trodden spot; cf. Norw trakke to trample; akin to tread
track′er(n.)
Princeton's WordNet
tracker(noun)
someone who tracks down game
Wiktionary
tracker(Noun)
One who, or that which, tracks or pursues, as a man or dog that follows game.
tracker(Noun)
In the organ, a light strip of wood connecting (in path) a key and a pallet, to communicate motion by pulling.
tracker(Noun)
A type of computer software for composing music by aligning samples on parallel timelines.
tracker(Noun)
A musician who writes music in a tracker.
tracker(Noun)
A computer program that monitors something.
tracker(Noun)
A tracker mortgage.
Webster Dictionary
Tracker(noun)
one who, or that which, tracks or pursues, as a man or dog that follows game
Tracker(noun)
in the organ, a light strip of wood connecting (in path) a key and a pallet, to communicate motion by pulling
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