track
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
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.
Inflected forms:
form: tracks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tracking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tracked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tracked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To continue over time.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We will track the raven population over the next six months.
gloss: To continue over time.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Agent Miles has been tracking the terrorist since Madrid.
I always had a suspicion that Calico, with his blend of simple faith and gipsy blood, had violated a temple, or looted a shrine, to save his son's life, and that the guardians of the relic tracked him and revenged the outrage.
Vlad says there is an American drone the Russians can't track. He wants a lot more of those.
gloss: To continue over time.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: My height tracks my father's at my age, so I might end up as tall as him.
gloss: To continue over time.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: The camera tracked the ball even as the field of play moved back and forth, keeping the action in shot the entire time.
gloss: To continue over time.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The hurricane tracked further west than expected.
gloss: To continue over time.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I've swept o'er the mountain, the forest and fell, / I've played on the rock where the wild chamois dwell; / I have tracked the desert so dreary and rude, / Through the pathless depths of its solitude; […]
gloss: To continue over time.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To continue over time.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Is the patient tracking? Does he know where he is?
Bess already knew about the painkillers and alcohol not mixing well.... "I wasn't tracking very well."
My mother in the past couple of days has started to really get confused and lose her train of thought easily.... She isn't tracking very well.
gloss: To follow the tracks of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: My uncle spent all day tracking the deer, whose hoofprints were clear in the mud.
gloss: To discover the location of a person or object by following traces.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I tracked Joe to his friend's bedroom, where he had spent the night.
"She could be at any hospital...she could be ill. It's not clear whether she has fled," he told reporters. "Yingluck has many homes and many cars. It is difficult to track her."
gloss: To make tracks on or to leave in the form of tracks.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: In winter, my cat tracks mud all over the house.
gloss: To create a musical recording (a track).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: Lil Kyle is gonna track with that DJ next week.
gloss: To create a musical recording (a track).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: At the time, tracking chiptunes (i.e. using trackers) was the fundamental method of chipmusic-making.
gloss: To make sense; to be consistent with known information
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
intransitive
examples: Vitron isn't hiding anything. The oil is there, the books are open, everything tracks.
Before he took off, our guy went online... to transfer all his personal accounts into his checking account. CDs, money market funds, everything. That tracks. According to Nick, he was trying to sell the dry cleaners.
There was an electrical storm in the center of this blizzard, Ben. It's extremely rare, but it can happen. Dark lightning? I can't prove it, but it tracks.
gloss: To separate into educational tracks, each of which teaches to a different level of ability.
pos: verb
examples: Most working class kids are purposely "tracked" through schools, kept uninformed about scholarships and remedial education/vocation programs and shepherded into dead-end jobs.
Synonyms: monitor
Related words: tracker
Derived words: double-track
slab-track
track down
tracking shot
track with
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: проследявам
roman: prosledjavam
lang: Czech
word: sledovat
lang: Finnish
word: seurata
lang: German
word: verfolgen
lang: Italian
word: monitorare
lang: Italian
word: seguire
lang: Māori
word: aroturuki
lang: Māori
word: whaiwhai
lang: Occitan
word: tracar
lang: Occitan
word: perseguir
lang: Occitan
word: seguir
lang: Occitan
word: tralhar
lang: Russian
word: отсле́живать
roman: otsléživatʹ
lang: Ukrainian
word: сте́жити
roman: stéžyty
lang: Ukrainian
word: відсте́жувати
roman: vidstéžuvaty
lang: Ukrainian
word: відсте́жити
roman: vidstéžyty
lang: Ukrainian
word: слідкува́ти
roman: slidkuváty
lang: Ukrainian
word: прослідкува́ти
roman: proslidkuváty
lang: Ukrainian
word: відслідко́вувати
roman: vidslidkóvuvaty
lang: Ukrainian
word: відслідкува́ти
roman: vidslidkuváty