Dictionary Definition
track
Noun
1 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" [syn: path, course]
2 evidence pointing to a possible solution; "the
police are following a promising lead"; "the trail led straight to
the perpetrator" [syn: lead, trail]
3 a pair of parallel rails providing a runway for
wheels
5 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" [syn: cut]
6 an endless metal belt on which tracked vehicles
move over the ground [syn: 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 [syn: data
track]
8 a groove on a phonograph recording
10 any road or path affording passage especially
a rough one [syn: cart track,
cartroad]
11 the act of participating in an athletic
competition involving running on a track [syn: running]
Verb
1 carry on the feet and deposit; "track mud into
the house"
2 observe or plot the moving path of something;
"track a missile"
3 go after with the intent to catch; "The
policeman chased the mugger down the alley"; "the dog chased the
rabbit" [syn: chase,
chase
after, trail, tail, tag, give chase,
dog, go after]
4 travel across or pass over; "The caravan
covered almost 100 miles each day" [syn: traverse, cover, cross, pass over,
get
over, get across,
cut
through, cut
across]
5 make tracks upon
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /træk/
- Rhymes with: -æk
Etymology
(noun) From trac (French: traque), maybe from a Germanic source Dutch: trek, Middle Low German: treck.Noun
- 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.
- A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or beast; trace; vestige; footprint.
- The entire lower surface of the foot; -- said of birds, etc.
- A road; a beaten path.
- Course; way; as, the track of a comet.
- A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc.
- The permanent way; the rails.
- A tract or area, as of land.
- In the context of "automotive": The distance between the centerlines of two tires, measured where the tires contact the surface of the road (also track width)
- The pitch.
- Sound stored on a record (or the physical track on one).
- Circular (never-ending) data storage unit on a side of magnetic or optical disk, divided into sectors.
- The racing events of
track and
field; track and
field in general.
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- I'm going to try out for track next week.
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Derived terms
- 8 track
- beaten track
- half-track
- half-tracker
- mid-track
- off the beaten track
- on the right track
- on track
- one-track mind
- trackpad
- railroad track
- railway track
- train track
- fast track
- mommy track
- album track
- tram track
- title track
- track record
- track spike
- track and field
Translations
mark or impression left by the foot
- Finnish: jälki, jalanjälki
- French: empreinte
entire lower surface of the foot
- French: empreinte
beaten path
path or course laid out for a race, or exercise
tract or area, as of land
- Finnish: kenttä
distance between the centerlines of two tires
- Finnish: raideleveys
(cricket) pitch
sound stored on a record
- Finnish: ääniraita
circular (never-ending) data storage unit on a
side of magnetic or optical disk
racing events of track and field
- ttbc Italian: binario (7)
- ttbc Portuguese: trilha (4, 6)
Verb
Derived terms
Translations
to observe the (measured) state of an object
over time
Finnish: seurata
to monitor someone's or something's movement
to discover the location of person or an object
Finnish: jäljittää
to follow tracks
Finnish: jäljittää
Extensive Definition
Track or Tracks may refer to:
In nature:
- Animal tracks, imprints left on surfaces that an animal walk across
- Trackway, an ancient route of travel or track used by animals
In sport:
- Track cycling, a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially-built banked tracks
- Athletics (track and field), a collection of sports events that involve running, throwing and jumping; also known as "track and field", "track and field athletics", or just "track" in the US
- Race track, purpose-built facility for the conducting of races
- A synonym for cricket pitch, central strip of a cricket field between the wickets
In transport and navigation:
- Rail tracks, used on railways, which, together with railroad switches, guide trains without the need for steering
- Wheel gauge of a vehicle, or rail gauge
- Navigational track, the path a vessel or aircraft plots over ground
- An ocean track is used in flight planning for routing aircraft across an ocean, or ground track for overland navigation. It is the path of the aircraft as determined combination of heading, slip, and wind effects.
- Track (sat nav): an ordered set of points along a path in satellite navigation devices
- Caterpillar track, a belt providing motive traction for a tank or bulldozer
- Track (Trail), an informal road or pathway
In electronics and computing:
- Copper trace or Signal trace line on a printed circuit board
- Circular segment of a hard disk or other storage media (see also cylinder-head-sector)
- Commonly mistaken verbally, Trac is a web-based project management and bug-tracking tool.
- Track+, project-management and bug tracking tool
In building:
- Track (lighting), a physical fixture used in track lighting
In audio-visual topics:
- Soundtrack, the recorded sound accompanying a visual medium such as a motion picture, television show, or video game
- Track (CD), consecutive set of sectors on the disc containing a block of data
- Control track, a sychronisation device used in video recording
In music:
- Track (song), an alternate name for a song or other distinct section of a sound recording
- One section of a multitrack recording
- Track Records, a record label founded in 1966 in London, England
- Tracks (album), 1998 four-disc box set by Bruce Springsteen
- Tracks (Collin Raye album), 2000 album by Collin Raye
In films:
- Tracks (Transformers), an Autobot in the Transformers series
- Tracks (1976 film), film written and directed by Henry Jaglom, starring Dennis Hopper
In printed media:
- Tracks (novel), book written by Louise Erdrich
- Tracks (magazine), monthly Australian surf magazine
In physics:
- Event reconstruction of a charged particle's path in relation to a particle accelerator or particle detector
See also
- Tracker
- Tracking
- Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools, known by the acronym TRACS
track in Czech: Trať
track in Danish: Dyreveksel
track in German: Track
track in French: Insuffisance de dévers
track in Dutch: Track
track in Polish: Track
track in Russian: Трек
track in Swedish: Spår
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
L, Rugby, a reckoning of, account of,
acrobatics, afterclap, aftercrop, aftereffect, afterglow, aftergrowth, afterimage, aftermath, aftertaste, agonistics, aim, air lane, alameda, alley, apprehend, archery ground,
artery, association
football, athletic field, athletics, attend, automobile racing,
avenue, azimuth, backwash, badminton court,
baseball field, basketball court, bathing, bearing, beat, beaten path, beaten track,
bent, berm, bicycle path, billiard
parlor, birthmark,
blackhead, bleb, blemish, blister, boardwalk, boulevard, bowling alley,
bowling green, branch,
bridle path, broad hint, bulla, bureaucracy, bureaucratism, cable
railway, capture,
catch, catwalk, chase, check, check of, chinoiserie, cicatrix, circuit, class, clue, cog railway, come after,
comedo, condensation
trail, contrail, count
of, course, court, cover, crack, crater, craze, cricket ground, croquet
ground, croquet lawn, cue,
current, daily grind,
defacement, defect, deformation, deformity, diamond, direction, direction line,
disfiguration,
disfigurement,
displace, distortion, do, dog, dog racing, drag, drift, drive, el, electric railway, elevated, elevated railway,
emanate, embankment, ensue, esplanade, fairway, falcon, fastwalk, fault, feeder, feeder line, ferret out,
field, find, flaw, flight path, flush, follow, follow a clue, follow
after, follow the hounds, follow up, foot pavement, football field,
footpath, footprints, footstep, footway, forget, form, fowl, freckle, garden path, gentle
hint, gesture, glaciarium, glimmer, glimmering, go after, go
hunting, golf course, golf links, grade, gravity-operated railway,
gridiron, grind, groove, gun, gym, gymnasium, gymnastics, hawk, heading, helmsmanship, hemangioma, hickey, highway, hiking trail, hint, horse racing, horse railway,
hound, hunt, hunt down, ice rink, implication, impress, imprint, inclination, index, indication, infield, inkling, innuendo, insinuation, intimation, issue, itinerary, jack, jacklight, jog trot, junction, keep track of, keep
up on, keep up with, keloid, kick, kink, lay, lentigo, lie, light railroad, line, line of direction, line of
march, links, look, lose, lose sight of, lose track of,
main line, mall, mark, measure, metro, milium, mislay, misplace, mole, monitor, monorail, natation, navigation, needle scar,
nevus, nod, nose, nose out, nudge, orbit, orientation, outfield, oval, overpass, oversee, overtake, palaestra, parade, pass over, pass through,
path, pathway, patrol, perambulate, peregrinate, pererrate, piloting, pimple, piste, pit, playground, playing field,
playroom, ply, pock, pockmark, point, polo ground, pool hall,
poolroom, port-wine
mark, port-wine stain, prado, primrose path, print, prints, promenade, prompt, prowl after, public walk,
pursue, pustule, putting green, quarter, racecourse, racing, rack railway,
rack-and-pinion railway, racket court, rail, rail line, railroad, rails, railway, range, range over, reconnoiter, record, red tape, red-tapeism,
replace, result, ride to hounds, rift, rink, road, roadbed, roadway, round, route, routine, rugger, run, run down, run to earth,
runway, rut, scab, scar, scent, scour, scour the country, scout, scratch, sea lane, sebaceous
cyst, seek out, set,
shadow, shikar, shoot, shortcut, sidetrack, sidewalk, siding, sign, signal, signs, skating rink, slot, smell out, sniff out,
soccer, soccer field,
split, spoor, sport, sports, squash court, squirrel
cage, stalk, start, steerage, steering, step, still-hunt, strawberry mark,
street, street railway,
streetcar line, stretch,
sty, subway, succeed, suggestion, supervene, supervise, suspicion, sweep, swimming, switchback, symptom, tabs of, tail, tally of, telltale, tendency, tennis court,
tenor, terminal, terminus, the turf, thoroughfare, tour, towing path, towpath, trace, trace down, traces, track, track and field, track
down, track of, track sports, tract, trade route, trail, traject, trajectory, trajet, tram, tramline, transit, travel over, travel
through, traverse,
tread, treadmill, trend, trestle, trolley line, trottoir, trunk, trunk line, tube, tumbling, turf, turnout, twist, underground, vapor trail,
verruca, vesicle, vestige, voyage, wake, wale, walk, walkway, warp, wart, wash, watch, way, weal, well-worn groove, welt, wen, whisper, whitehead, wink