track
noun
[ trak ]
• a rough path or road, typically one beaten by use rather than constructed.
• "follow the track to the farm"
• a mark or line of marks left by a person, animal, or vehicle in passing.
• "he followed the tracks made by the cars in the snow"
Similar:
traces,
marks,
impressions,
prints,
imprints,
footprints,
footmarks,
footsteps,
trail,
spoor,
scent,
wake,
slipstream,
• a continuous line of rails on a railway.
• "commuters had to leave trains to walk along the tracks"
• a recording of one song or piece of music.
• "the CD contains early Elvis Presley tracks"
• a continuous articulated metal band around the wheels of a heavy vehicle such as a tank, intended to facilitate movement over rough or soft ground.
• the transverse distance between a vehicle's wheels.
• "the undercarriage was fully retractable inwards into the wing, with a 90 inch track"
• a group in which schoolchildren of the same age and ability are taught.
track
verb
• follow the trail or movements of (someone or something), typically in order to find them or note their course.
• "secondary radars that track the aircraft in flight"
Similar:
follow,
trail,
trace,
pursue,
shadow,
stalk,
dog,
spoor,
hunt (down),
chase,
hound,
course,
keep an eye on,
keep in sight,
tail,
keep tabs on,
keep a tab on,
• (of wheels) run so that the back ones are exactly in the track of the front ones.
• (of a tunable circuit or component) vary in frequency in the same way as another circuit or component, so that the frequency difference between them remains constant.
Origin:
late 15th century (in the sense ‘trail, marks left behind’): the noun from Old French trac, perhaps from Low German or Dutch trek ‘draught, drawing’; the verb (current senses dating from the mid 16th century) from French traquer or directly from the noun.
track
verb
• tow (a canoe) along a waterway from the bank.
• "he was going to track the canoe up the ice-hung rapids"
Origin:
early 18th century: apparently from Dutch trekken ‘to draw, pull, or travel’. The change in the vowel was due to association with track1.
