track vs tract
Definitions
noun
- a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll
- any road or path affording passage especially a rough one
- a line or route along which something travels or moves
- the act of participating in an athletic competition involving running on a track
- (computer science) one of the circular magnetic paths on a magnetic disk that serve as a guide for writing and reading data
verb
- go after with the intent to catch
- observe or plot the moving path of something
- travel across or pass over
- carry on the feet and deposit
- 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.
Definitions
noun
- a brief treatise on a subject of interest; published in the form of a booklet
- a system of body parts that together serve some particular purpose
- a bundle of myelinated nerve fibers following a path through the brain
- an extended area of land
Examples
Frogs and newts have already been attracted to three new natural spring ponds at Abbey Meads School.
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.
As a book about a nonoperational aircraft, Valkyrie will probably attract only a limited audience within the Air Force community.
