track vs tract

Definitions

noun

1. a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll
2. any road or path affording passage especially a rough one
3. a line or route along which something travels or moves
4. the act of participating in an athletic competition involving running on a track
5. (computer science) one of the circular magnetic paths on a magnetic disk that serve as a guide for writing and reading data

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verb

1. go after with the intent to catch
2. observe or plot the moving path of something
3. travel across or pass over
4. carry on the feet and deposit
5. make tracks upon

Examples

Spending on a perennial effort to expand gambling at race tracks, known as "racino," increased four-fold to about $620,000 in 2010.

Consumers get incredibly upset when dieticians and researchers backtrack on previous findings, proclaiming that products once deemed healthy are now in question.

We lapped the track a few times at a walk, trot and canter and the horse went through it pretty smoothly.

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Definitions

noun

1. a brief treatise on a subject of interest; published in the form of a booklet
2. a system of body parts that together serve some particular purpose
3. a bundle of myelinated nerve fibers following a path through the brain
4. an extended area of land

Examples

Elisabeth found herself with a straggle of colonists in a mosquito-ridden, uncleared jungle where sandflies bored into the skin of the feet and the clay soil was so intractable that nothing would grow.

Someone who really wanted to stop unsanctioned immigration would begin here, by busting the small contractors who employ these workers on a contingent basis.

Frogs and newts have already been attracted to three new natural spring ponds at Abbey Meads School.

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