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.
We lapped the track a few times at a walk, trot and canter and the horse went through it pretty smoothly.
The CDC asks states to report confirmed flu deaths by age group but not by subtype, meaning H1N1 deaths are not necessarily tracked.
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
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.
Frogs and newts have already been attracted to three new natural spring ponds at Abbey Meads School.
