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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

... argument, and everybody stayed indoors or stepped high through drifts. The direct way to the factory was virtually untrodden, and Ebenezer made a detour through the business street in search of some semblance of a "track." ...

— Christmas - A Story • Zona Gale

... including Trinity Church—all the west side of Broadway from Whitehall to Barclay street, or about one-eighth of the city; and on the 7th of August 1778, about 300 buildings on East River were burned. The winter of 1779-80 was very severe; there was a beaten track for sleighs and wagons across the Hudson; the ice in that river being strong enough to bear a horse and man as late as the 17th of March; eighty sleighs, with provisions, and a large body of troops, crossed ...

— Lights and Shadows of New York Life - or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City • James D. McCabe

... I have travelled seven thousand miles to visit, and I thank God that I have been so fortunate as to find you. I feared lest you might be dead, or perhaps far away in the centre of Africa where I should never be able to track ...

— The Ivory Child • H. Rider Haggard

... which lived there in perfect harmony. Paul had been so clever as to discover, in this little town of 15,000 souls, numbers of pretty girls, all made to be adored. He always believed himself the discoverer of America, when, in fact, he had done nothing but follow in the track ...

— L'Abbe Constantin, Complete • Ludovic Halevy

... about twenty-two miles, and had taken to the railroad track by way of change, when I came upon a freight train, which had stopped on account of some ...

— Four Famous American Writers: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, • Sherwin Cody

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