Etymology : Middle English trak, from Middle French trac, perhaps of Germanic origin; akin to Middle Dutch tracken, trecken to pull, haul; more at TREK
Pronunciation : trak
Function : noun
Date : 15th century
1. lane, path; signs, trails; mark or lines left by a car or person or animal; railroad; channel; prepared course for racing or running; selection of music from a recording, section of a compact disc or cassette tape that contains one song or one piece of music; diagonal distance between the wheels of a car; groove of a wheel; caterpillar tread. follow a path; follow movements; travel across, get across; chase after. track star.
2. A mark left by something that has passed along; as, the track, or wake, of a ship; the track of a meteor; the track of a sled or a wheel.
3. A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or beast; trace; vestige; footprint.
4. The entire lower surface of the foot; said of birds, etc.
5. A road; a beaten path.
6. Course; way; as, the track of a comet.
7. A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc.
8. The permanent way; the rails.
9. A tract or area, as of land.
10. To follow the tracks or traces of; to pursue by following the marks of the feet; to trace; to trail; as, to track a deer in the snow.
11. To draw along continuously, as a vessel, by a line, men or animals on shore being the motive power; to tow. the act of participating in an athletic competition involving running on a track any road or path affording passage especially a rough one a bar or bars of rolled steel making a track along which vehicles can roll a pair of parallel rails providing a runway for wheels a groove on a phonograph recording one of the circular magnetic paths on a magnetic disk that serve as a guide for writing and reading data an endless metal belt on which tracked vehicles move over the ground make tracks upon carry on the feet and deposit; "track mud into the house" observe or plot the moving path of something; "track a missile".
12. 1. A track is a narrow road or path. We set off once more, over a rough mountain track. = path.
13. A track is a piece of ground, often oval-shaped, that is used for races involving athletes, cars, bicycles, horses, or dogs called greyhounds. The two men turned to watch the horses going round the track. the athletics track.
14. Railway tracks are the rails that a train travels along. A woman fell on to the tracks.
15. A track is one of the songs or pieces of music on a CD, record, or tape.
16. Tracks are marks left in the ground by the feet of animals or people. The only evidence of pandas was their tracks in the snow.
17. If you track animals or people, you try to follow them by looking for the signs that they have left behind, for example the marks left by their feet. He thought he had better track this wolf and kill it.
18. To track someone or something means to follow their movements by means of a special device, such as a satellite or radar. Our radar began tracking the jets.
19. If you track someone or something, you investigate them, because you are interested in finding out more about them. If it's possible, track the rumour back to its origin.
20. In a school, a track is a group of children of the same age and ability who are taught together.
21. To track students means to divide them into groups according to their ability. Students are already being tracked. + tracking track·ing Tracking assigns some students to college prep and others to vocational programs. see also:
backtrack, fast track, racetrack, sidetrack, soundtrack, title track.
22. If someone covers their tracks, they hide or destroy evidence of their identity or their actions, because they want to keep them secret. He covered his tracks, burnt letters and diaries.
23. If you say that someone has the inside track, you mean that they have an advantage, for example special knowledge about something. Denver has the inside track among 10 sites being considered.
24. If you keep track of a situation or a person, you make sure that you have the newest and most accurate information about them all the time. With eleven thousand employees, it's very difficult to keep track of them all.
25. If you lose track of someone or something, you no longer know where they are or what is happening. You become so deeply absorbed in an activity that you lose track of time.
26. If you make tracks, you leave the place where you are, especially when you are in a hurry. We'd better make tracks soon, hadn't we?.
27. If someone or something is on track, they are acting or progressing in a way that is likely to result in success. It may take some time to get the British economy back on track.
28. If you are on the track of someone or something, you are trying to find them, or find information about them. He was on the track of an escaped criminal = on the trail of.
29. If you are on the right track, you are acting or progressing in a way that is likely to result in success. If you are on the wrong track, you are acting or progressing in a way that is likely to result in failure. Guests are returning in increasing numbers -- a sure sign that we are on the right track The country was headed on the wrong track, economically.
30. If someone or something stops you in your tracks, or if you stop dead in your tracks, you suddenly stop moving because you are very surprised, impressed, or frightened. The thought almost stopped me dead in my tracks.
31. If someone or something stops a process or activity in its tracks, or if it stops dead in its tracks, they prevent the process or activity from continuing. U.S. manufacturers may find the export boom stopping dead in its tracks.
32. off the beaten track: see:
beaten.
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