tracker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
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English track
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English tracker
From track + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: trackers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Agent noun of track; one who, or that which, tracks or pursues, as a man or dog that follows game.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: While she and Mr. Fetterman were often in different places, she would turn up at events early so she could shoot and post photos of the crowds, the lines, the people. At most events there was a tracker: a guy from the Oz team who monitored the goings-on.
gloss: Agent noun of track; one who, or that which, tracks or pursues, as a man or dog that follows game.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
examples: The police picked him up, reared him, and he had been a tracker ever since, except for periodical walk-abouts.
gloss: In an organ, a light strip of wood connecting (in path) a key and a pallet, to communicate motion by pulling.
pos: noun
gloss: A type of computer software for composing music by aligning notes or samples on parallel timelines.
pos: noun
examples: Trackers have broken out of the demoscene, are are^([sic]) now in use by thousands of professional musicians. It's not uncommon to hear about people using trackers on DJ forums, and electronic music production communities[…]
Although there were a few game companies outside the Amiga scene that used a tracker format (Epic Mega-Games, for instance), the majority used the better-supported MIDI.
At the time, tracking chiptunes (i.e. using trackers) was the fundamental method of chipmusic-making.
gloss: A musician who writes music in a tracker.
pos: noun
examples: You can always find musicians. There are more trackers than coders, pixelers, organizers, couriers, and designers combined.
gloss: A computer program that monitors something.
pos: noun
gloss: A computer program that monitors something.
pos: noun
gloss: A tracker mortgage.
pos: noun
gloss: An album with the specified number of tracks.
pos: noun
tags: in-compounds
examples: "Typical" is the best song on this nine-tracker, and ironically, the record itself is good, but typical.
Derived words: activity tracker
astrotracker
autotracker
blacktracker
eyetracker
geotracker
half-tracker
inch tracker
IP tracker
lysotracker
mitotracker
radiotracker
solar tracker
startracker
trackerball
tracker dog
trackerphone
Translations:
lang: Southern Altai
word: исчи
roman: isči
lang: Finnish
word: jäljittäjä
lang: Finnish
word: jälkikoira
lang: Finnish
word: jäljitin
lang: French
word: pisteur
lang: French
word: traqueur
lang: French
word: poursuivant
lang: Galician
word: rastrexador
lang: Galician
word: rastrexadora
lang: German
word: Aufspürer
lang: German
word: Aufspürerin
lang: German
word: Fährtenfinder
lang: German
word: Fährtenfinderin
lang: German
word: Fährtenleser
lang: German
word: Fährtenleserin
lang: German
word: Fährtensucher
lang: German
word: Fährtensucherin
lang: German
word: Verfolger
lang: German
word: Verfolgerin
lang: Greek
word: ιχνηλάτης
roman: ichnilátis
lang: Greek
word: ανιχνευτής
roman: anichneftís
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἰχνευτής
roman: ikhneutḗs
lang: Irish
word: rianaí
lang: Japanese
word: 追跡者
roman: tsuisekisha
lang: Latin
word: vestigator
lang: Polish
word: tropiciel
lang: Portuguese
word: rastreador
lang: Portuguese
word: rastreadora
lang: Russian
word: следопы́т
roman: sledopýt
lang: Spanish
word: rastreador
lang: Spanish
word: rastreadora
lang: Spanish
word: huellero
lang: Spanish
word: monitor
lang: Turkish
word: izleyici
lang: Turkish
word: takipçi
lang: Turkish
word: izci
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 追踪器
roman: zhuīzōngqì
lang: Galician
word: rastrexador
lang: German
word: Tracker
lang: Japanese
word: トラッカー
roman: torakkā
lang: Korean
word: 트래커
roman: teuraekeo
lang: Russian
word: тре́кер
roman: trɛ́ker
lang: Spanish
word: rastreador
lang: Spanish
word: monitor