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Track

noun

1.

A line or route along which something travels or moves. Synonyms: course, path. "The track of an animal" , "The course of the river"

2.

Evidence pointing to a possible solution. Synonyms: lead, trail. "The trail led straight to the perpetrator"

3.

A pair of parallel rails providing a runway for wheels.

4.

A course over which races are run. Synonyms: racecourse, racetrack, raceway.

5.

A distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc. Synonym: cut. "The title track of the album"

6.

An endless metal belt on which tracked vehicles move over the ground. Synonyms: caterpillar track, caterpillar tread.

7.

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

8.

A groove on a phonograph recording.

9.

A bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll. Synonyms: rail, rails, runway.

10.

Any road or path affording passage especially a rough one. Synonyms: cart track, cartroad.

11.

The act of participating in an athletic competition involving running on a track. Synonym: running.

verb

(past & past part. tracked; pres. part. tracking)

1.

Carry on the feet and deposit.

2.

Observe or plot the moving path of something.

3.

Go after with the intent to catch. Synonyms: chase, chase after, dog, give chase, go after, tag, tail, trail. "The dog chased the rabbit"

4.

Travel across or pass over. Synonyms: cover, cross, cut across, cut through, get across, get over, pass over, traverse.

5.

Make tracks upon.

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"Track" Quotes from Famous Books

... Captain Martin and the patriotic men of Marblehead, who, on the outbreak of the Rebellion, were the first to leave home, the first to arrive in Boston, and subsequently, under my command, the first to leave the yard of the Naval Academy at Annapolis, to repair and relay the track in the march through Maryland to relieve the beleaguered ...

— The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 5 • Various

... is quite the wholesomest process for its homicides in general, can yet with mercy distinguish between the degrees of guilt in homicides; and does not yelp like a pack of frost-pinched wolf-cubs on the blood-track of an unhappy crazed boy, or gray-haired clodpate Othello, "perplexed i' the extreme," at the very moment that it is sending a Minister of the Crown to make polite speeches to a man who is bayoneting young girls in their father's sight, and killing noble youths ...

— Harvard Classics Volume 28 - Essays English and American • Various

... had reached the hotel a letter was brought to her. In it Kitty bade her—and the Dean—farewell, and asked that no effort should be made to track her. "I am going to friends—where I shall be safe and at peace. Thank you both with all my heart. Let no one think ...

— The Marriage of William Ashe • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... the very track of the barbarians as they had spread out of the Silva Anderida, through a neck of which, fifteen miles ahead, the road passed. An acrid smell of smoke hung heavy in the twilight; when he reached the station of Noviomagus he found it all in flames, with ...

— Nicanor - Teller of Tales - A Story of Roman Britain • C. Bryson Taylor

... you walk right through and you turn around and swing the girl that finds you, And you come right back by the same old track and turn ...

— The Branding Iron • Katharine Newlin Burt

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