track
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: trăk
ipa: /tɹæk/
rhymes: -æk
Forms: form: tracks
Etymology: From Middle English trak, tracke, from Old French trac (“track of horses, trail, trace”), of uncertain origin. Likely from a Germanic source, either Old Norse traðk ("a track; path; trodden spot"; > Icelandic traðk (“a track; path; tread”), Faroese traðk (“track; tracks”), Norwegian tråkke (“to trample”)) or from Middle Dutch trec, *trac, treck ("line, row, series"; > Dutch trek (“a draft; feature; trait; groove; expedition”)), German Low German Treck (“a draught; movement; passage; flow”). See tread, trek.
Senses: examples: text: Follow the track of the ship.
text: Can you see any tracks in the snow?
synonyms: trace
trail
wake
glosses: A mark left by something that has passed along.
examples: text: The fox tracks were still visible in the snow.
synonyms: footprint
impression
glosses: A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or animal.
glosses: The entire lower surface of the foot; said of birds, etc.
examples: text: Follow the track for a hundred metres.
synonyms: path
road
way
glosses: A road or other similar beaten path.
examples: text: Astronomers predicted the track of the comet.
synonyms: course
path
trajectory
way
glosses: Physical course; way.
examples: text: The athletes ran round the track.
text: The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 58:
synonyms: course
racetrack
glosses: A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc.
examples: text: You cannot simply “get” your child back on track; you and others can only help your child with that task.
ref: 2009, Kenneth H. Talan, Help Your Child Or Teen Get Back on Track, →ISBN:
text: My track record was enough proof that I couldn't use women for medicinal purposes, and even my attempts at casual relationships were not adequate enough to even temporarily release the poisons inside me.
ref: 2010, Randall Lee, Memoirs to My Women, →ISBN, page 242:
glosses: The direction and progress of someone or something; path.
examples: text: They briefly closed the railway to remove debris found on the track.
topics: railways
transport
synonyms: rails
railway
train tracks
tracks
glosses: The way or rails along which a train moves.
synonyms: area
parcel
region
tract
glosses: A tract or area, such as of land.
examples: text: A real pimp is a gentleman, but these are pimps in gorilla suits. They hang around pimps, they have hoes on the track working for them, they may even look like pimps, but they are straight simps.
ref: 2012, Pimpin' Ken, PIMPOLOGY: The 48 Laws of the Game, page 11:
text: After putting Tonya Down on the track, we headed to this club called the Players Club.
ref: 2012, Paul D. Jones, Twilight Nights: The Trials and Tribulations of the Game, page 130:
glosses: The street, as a prostitute's place of work.
examples: text: You will need to keep track of meetings with your lawyer and court deadlines.
ref: 2006, James J. Gross, Michael F. Callahan, Money and Divorce: The First 90 Days and After, →ISBN, page 24:
text: We have to formulate what we want, be so concentrated on it, so focused on it, and so aware of it that we lose track of ourselves, we lose track of time, we lose track of our identity.
ref: 2012, Steven Gurgevich, Joy Gurgevich, The Self-Hypnosis Diet, →ISBN:
glosses: Awareness of something, especially when arising from close monitoring.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
synonyms: track width
glosses: The distance between two opposite wheels on a same axletree.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Ellipsis of caterpillar track.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: ground
pitch
glosses: The pitch.
synonyms: recording
glosses: Sound stored on a record.
synonyms: groove
glosses: The physical track on a record.
examples: text: My favourite track on the album is "Sunshine".
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A song or other relatively short piece of music, on a record, separated from others by a short silence.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A circular (never-ending) data storage unit on a side of magnetic or optical disk, divided into sectors.
examples: text: I'm going to try out for track next week.
text: The University of Virginia belongs to the Atlantic Coast Conference and competes interscholastically in basketball, baseball, crew, cross country, fencing, football, golf, indoor track, lacrosse, polo, soccer, swimming, tennis, track, and wrestling.
ref: 1973, University of Virginia Undergraduate Record:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: athletics
track and field
glosses: The racing events of track and field; track and field in general.
examples: text: This year's third annual Women's Institute will include two tracks—on health and organizational issues—because of the overwhelming response and demand for more workshops last year.
ref: 1992 February 2, Carrie Wofford, “Fifth National Black Gay Conference”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 28, page 1:
glosses: A themed set of talks within a conference.
topics: fashion
lifestyle
glosses: Clipping of trackshoe.
topics: education
glosses: A specialization in senior high school. Some tracks consist of strands.
Hyponyms: album track
beaten track
bush track
cycle track
double track
fast track
Hayashi track
Henyey track
hidden track
lose track
mommy track
panhandle track
racetrack
railroad track
railway track
reserved track
running track
side track
sidetrack
slab track
team track
test track
title track
train track
tram track
Derived terms: 8-track
Amtrak
art track
audiotrack
backing track
backtrack
belt track
betrack
biotrack
buzz track
Cascio tracks
click track
continuous track
crawler track
crosstrack
detrack
dirt track
diss track
doubletrack
double-track
down the track
dreaming track
dreamtime track
exercise track
flaptrack
flat-track bully
four-track
ghost track
half-track
half-tracker
hallway track
inside track
intertrack
keep track
laughter track
laugh track
long track
microtrack
midtrack
mid-track
minitrack
mistrack
multitrack
mummy track
nanotrack
off the beaten track
off the track
off-track
one-track
one-track mind
on the right track
on the wallaby track
on the wrong track
on track
overtrack
peritrack
Polytrack
rail-track
retrack
sea track
sheeptrack
short-track
short track
short-track speed skating
singletrack
single track
ski track
soundtrack
stormtrack
subtrack
take the back track
tan track
tenure-track
tenuretrack
tenure track
time-track
time track
trackability
trackable
trackage
track and bowl system
track and field
track and trace
trackback
trackball
trackbar
trackbed
track bed
track bike
track-boat
track brake
track circuit
track-circuited
track-circuiting
track cycling
track cyclist
trackee
track event
track gauge
tracklayer
tracklaying
trackless
tracklet
tracklifting
track light
track lighting
tracklike
trackline
tracklist
tracklisting
tracklog
track magnet
trackmaker
trackman
track mark
track marks
trackmaster
track meet
trackmo
track-mounted
trackpad
track pan
track panel
track pants
trackperson
track pizza
track plan
trackplan
trackpoint
track record
track-release
track-road
track shoe
trackside
track-side
tracksite
track spike
track stand
track star
track stick
tracksuit
track-to-track seek time
trackwalker
trackwalking
trackway
trackwheel
trackwidth
track width
trackwoman
trackwork
track worker
trackworker
twin-track
undertrack
untrack
voicetrack
warning track
wild track
Z-track
Related terms: path
trail