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track Noun

— A track is a line on the ground or in space that people, animals or vehicles follow. It's right where Hardy Road crosses the railroad tracks. He was far enough off the beaten track that nobody was liable to find him there. There was an indoor track where he ran daily to stay healthy. It was called the Camiri Highway, but it was not much more than a two-lane dirt track. Three people were killed and hundreds injured when a train jumped the tracks this morning. I raced on a 250-meter track in Call and won. The official track, shows this storm moving west. — A track is a single part of an audio recording that can be separated from other parts of a recording. You can make digital copies of the CD tracks and save them in MP3 format. Each instrument is recorded onto a different audio track. The song is the opening track on the new album. — A track is a mark left on the ground by somebody or something walking or driving. Phillip glanced at the policemen measuring and marking the tire tracks. There were no car tracks, ski tracks--even deer tracks--anywhere near the house. — If you keep track of something, you follow it or always know where it is or what's happening with it. I use a watch in order to keep track of how long I've been studying. I'm sure Father simply lost track of the time. — Track is the sport of running and jumping on a track. No new records were set in the most recent track and field championships. He ran like an Olympic track star. — If you're on track to do something, you are taking the right steps to prepare and should be able to do it in the future. Making a study plan is a good way to keep on track with your homework. — If you're on the fast track, you are moving ahead quickly in your job. — A track is a long, flat circular band that goes over wheels to help a vehicle move in snow, on sand, etc.

track Verb

— If you track something down, you find it after looking for it. He was trying to track down where she lived. — If you track something, you follow it, to see where it's going or how it's changing. I also started weighing myself weekly to track my progress. Animal movements are tracked these days not on foot but by air. — If you track mud, water, or some other substance somewhere, you walk and leave it there. The kids tracked mud all over my clean floors.

track

— noun (= path, course) 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 — verb carry on the feet and deposit track mud into the house — verb observe or plot the moving path of something track a missile — noun a pair of parallel rails providing a runway for wheels — noun (= lead, trail) evidence pointing to a possible solution the police are following a promising lead the trail led straight to the perpetrator — noun (= racetrack) a course over which races are run — verb (= chase, dog, go after) go after with the intent to catch The policeman chased the mugger down the alley the dog chased the rabbit — verb make tracks upon — noun a groove on a phonograph recording — noun (computer science) one of the circular magnetic paths on a magnetic disk that serve as a guide for writing and reading data — noun an endless metal belt on which tracked vehicles move over the ground — noun a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll — noun any road or path affording passage especially a rough one — noun (= running) the act of participating in an athletic competition involving running on a track — noun (= cut) 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 — verb (= cover, pass over) travel across or pass over The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day

Synonyms track synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as track?

track English » English

path trail trace road way footprint follow route course spoor rail mark pathway runway line pursue print lane footstep chase rut run passage dog vestige trajectory tail street roadway rails go after chase after tracks tag sign shadow railway racecourse orbit imprint gauge clue caterpillar tread caterpillar track traverse stripe slot seek raceway racetrack

Topics track topics

What do people use track to talk about?
Social behavior Social activity Entertainment, recreation

Sports
Work and occupation Hunt and fish Hunt

Track an animal
Universe, creation Animal Animal actions

Animal movement

  • What words refer to animal tracks?
    track
Language and thought Think Learn

Study
Physical actions Move

Pursue
Physical actions Hide

Search
Language and thought Think Remember

Forget
Language and thought Emotion Feel good Interested

Obsessed
Physical actions Move Manner of movement

Move quickly
States Quantity

Count
States Big Distance

Far

Conjugation track conjugation

How do you conjugate track?

track · verb

Examples track examples

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Simple sentences

The train was derailed by a piece of iron on the track.
You are way off the track.
You're on the right track.
What track for Boston?
The dusty track descends to a valley.
The track meet was called off on account of the heavy rain.
I think you're on the right track.
Take the express on track 9.
The police managed to track down the owner of the car.
My business has at last gotten on the right track.
How to track the least visited pages and what to do with them?
The muddy track descends to a valley.
I can't keep track of all the changes taking place in the world of AIDS research.
Take any train on track 5.

Movie subtitles

To ensure public policy stays on track.
Umm! Obaba. Are you still trying to track down Musashi?
Tonight's gotten. Pretty off track.
Get things back on track.
How does that get things back on track?
Track every grain of sand.
Mothers-in-law are by nature always on the wrong track.
On Track 25.
Except for the trappers, never a white man has left his track there.
I hope your mother and your sisters if you have any are going through what i've been going through ever since you got on my track.
If I'm on the right track now, I'm gonna get high as a kite tonight!
I'll track him down.
Yeah, that's his track.
Travelling like this, you lose track of what's going on in the world.
Next week, we'll be laying down the last railroad track. We're also inaugurating the new Blida station.
Training for track and field. My girl's trying to get scouted.
You may be a math whiz, but there's no way you can track this many all at once.
Get the U.S. military in the loop, -and track them down.
Track all changes in the storm's temperature and air currents.
We're on track to change your vector. I can monitor things from here.
Where am I sleeping, on a race track?
A bicycle riding away by itself is on a concealed track, and wires above kept the bike upright.
No, not Mr Moto. He's a detective trying to track down the invisible man, who is creating problems at the film studio.
To throw the wives off the track so that we can go to the convention.
Are you still trying to track down Musashi?
Analyze every drop of fuel. Track every grain of sand.
The track is gliding fast, Nick.
Keep track of him.
The only thing I did was keep track of a man named Worth.
Well, the nearest town is Columbus, 1 o miles down the track.
Traveling like this, you lose track of what's going on in the world.
I think we're on the right track.
Then he took Wynant's body and buried it with another man's clothes. a fat man's clothes, to throw us off the track.
However, all my different disguises. and false identities were used only. to throw the police off my track.
The train could jump off the track.
It's rather off the beaten track.

News and current affairs

The donors promised to double aid to Africa by 2010, but are still far off track.
This will help citizens track how that money is used, but it will not help them to assess whether their governments are collecting a fair share.
The first objective of intelligence is to find terrorists, prevent them from acting, and track them after they do attack.
Rather, stimulus is about collective decisions to get aggregate spending back on track.
On the contrary, the shadow is lengthening with each passing day, owing to the absence of effective policies to get the flow of economy-wide nominal spending back on its previous track.
There is no doubt that global warming is a problem that we should tackle smartly (though our track record so far has not been encouraging).
For the underlying conflict to be resolved, Bolivians must become convinced that reform is the right track, the only one, indeed, that leads to progress and authentic development.
A long track record of success can warp executives' analysis, distort their decision-making, and leave them blind to incipient paradigm shifts or rapid changes in a market.
The progressive social experiment has gone so severely off-track that the state cannot even dependably provide essential services, from courts to education, for the most needy.
The world has been amply warned about Blix's weaknesses because he has a track record of compounded failure.
Turkey's panic came on the heels of Fischer saying that everything seemed on track.
Most people think of a free press as a way to keep track of what governments are doing - and so it is.
The idea that the Arab-Israeli peace process requires choosing between a Syrian or a Palestinian track has proved to be a dangerous fallacy.
None of the EU's top three new faces (Juncker, Tusk, and Mogherini) has a track record in this sense.
Indeed, today's enthusiasm for currency unions ignores the poor track record of previous attempts on the continent to establish them through peaceful means.
That reversal is one of the great under-reported stories of 2011 (and of the preceding two years), and the numbers are startling. Consider Spain, which is on track to lose more than a half-million residents by 2020.
The Bush Administration is flouting every rule to give its cronies the inside track.
It could help to put the organization back on track and assist it to focus on doing the best things first.
If the process leading to EU accession is put back on track, it will greatly aid the effort to ensure that Turkey becomes an open society.
If you can use patterns in Google searches to track flu outbreaks and predict a movie's commercial prospects, can you also use it to forecast market movements or even revolutions?
The strong track record of the MDGs certainly provides grounds for hope.
Today, China has become an upper-middle-income country, and it is on track to become a high-income country by 2020.
Unfortunately, Cameron's track record in European politics does not inspire confidence in his ability to manage a different outcome.
Those of us who believe that the past 20 years made sense, and that we are on the right track, are still the majority in Hungary.
But reliance on realpolitik as the guiding light of foreign policy has a pretty shabby track record.

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