Difference between track and gauntlet
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
- to offer or accept a challenge
- a glove of armored leather; protects the hand
- a glove with long sleeve
- a form of punishment in which a person is forced to run between two lines of men facing each other and armed with clubs or whips to beat the victim
Examples
His Republican rival may be expected to take up the gauntlet.
D'ye know, that Irish lunatic absolutely ran the gauntlet of pandy fire to get back into Lucknow, and bring out Outram and Havelock in person (with the poor old Gravedigger hardly able to hobble along) just so that they could greet Sir Colin as he covered the last few furlongs?
No, Obama has thrown down the gauntlet, and is trying to reify the sloganeering of the 1960s.
