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noun (plural tracks) |
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1. mark left: a mark left by a moving person, animal, or thing, e.g. a footprint, an animal's paw print, or the mark of a wheel
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2. path: a path or road, especially one made by the continual passing of people or animals or one specially created for some purpose
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3. course of travel: the path taken by somebody or something while traveling
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4. rail structure: a rail or pair of parallel rails on which a vehicle, especially a train, runs, along with supporting structures
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5. line of action or thought: a line of thought or investigation, or a course of action
  realized our research was on the wrong track
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6. sports race course: a course laid out for racing
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7. sports
Same as track and field
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8. recording separate recording of music: a separate piece of music or song on a disc, tape, or record
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9. recording path for recording: a separate section of a magnetic tape where the input of a single channel is recorded
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10. recording recorded input: a recording on separate tracks of a magnetic tape that are combined to give a final version, e.g. of a piece of recorded music or a film
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11. recording
Same as soundtrack (sense 1)
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12. comput section of computer disk: a path on the surface of a storage medium such as a diskette or CD-ROM on which information is recorded and from which recorded information is read. The path is a series of concentric rings on floppy disks and hard files and a spiral on video disks and CD-ROMs.
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13. movies
Same as tracking shot
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14. automotive treads of tank or bulldozer: a continuous loop of rubber or metal plates driven by wheels, giving great traction over soft or rough ground, used especially on bulldozers and heavy military vehicles such as tanks
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15. U.S. education course of study: a course of study tailored to the relative abilities or needs of a student
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16. business career path: the course or projected course of a career
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17. manufacturing moving assembly line: a moving belt carrying things along a factory assembly line
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18. household supporting rail: a usually grooved rail along which something moves such as a lighting fixture or the supporting hooks of a curtain
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19. physics path of particle: the path taken by a particle of ionizing radiation in a cloud chamber, bubble chamber, or photographic emulsion
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20. engineering distance between wheels: the distance between a pair of wheels, e.g. between the front wheels of a motor vehicle
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plural noun tracks |
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drugs needle marks: marks or scars on the body of a drug user caused by frequent injections
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slang
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verb (past and past participle tracked, present participle track·ing, 3rd person present singular tracks) |
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1. transitive and intransitive verb follow trail: to follow a trail made by somebody or something, or try to find somebody or something by following a trail left behind
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2. transitive and intransitive verb follow path: to follow a path through a place
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3. transitive verb make tracks with mud on something: to carry something, especially mud, on the shoes or feet and leave it on the surface walked on
tracking mud into the house
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4. transitive verb electrical engineering follow flight path of something: to follow the flight path of a vehicle such as a spacecraft using electronic equipment or radar
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5. transitive verb follow progress of something: to follow the progress or development of something
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6. transitive and intransitive verb movies film moving object: to follow and film a moving person or object with a mobile camera
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7. intransitive verb engineering align: to be in alignment or the correct distance apart
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refers to wheels of motor vehicles
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8. intransitive verb recording follow groove on record: to follow the groove on a phonograph record
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9. transitive verb U.S. rail supply something with tracks: to supply something, especially a railroad line, with tracks
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10. transitive verb U.S. education assign somebody to track: to assign a student to an educational track
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11. intransitive verb U.S. travel: to travel, especially on a long or laborious journey
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informal
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| [15th century. < French trac "footprint, mark"] |
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cover your tracks to remove all signs of having been somewhere or done something (informal)
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in your tracks
1. suddenly and immediately, just where somebody or something is or in the middle of what somebody or something is doing
2. as somebody or something is going along
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keep track (of) to follow, pay attention to, or keep a check on the position or progress of somebody or something
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lose track (of) to fail to follow or pay attention, or fail to keep an adequate check on the position or progress of somebody or something
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make tracks to leave, especially hastily (informal)
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off the beaten track away from the places people usually visit and often difficult to find or get to (informal)
The cottage is lovely, but it's off the beaten track.
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off track not on the correct or desired path or schedule
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on track on the correct or desired path or schedule
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