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US
/ˈtɹæk/
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[ UK /tɹˈæk/ ]
[ UK /tɹˈæk/ ]
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
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a line or route along which something travels or moves
the track of an animal
the course of the river
the hurricane demolished houses in its path - 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
- a pair of parallel rails providing a runway for wheels
- a groove on a phonograph recording
- a course over which races are run
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a distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc
the title track of the album
he played the first cut on the cd - an endless metal belt on which tracked vehicles move over the ground
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evidence pointing to a possible solution
the police are following a promising lead
the trail led straight to the perpetrator
VERB
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go after with the intent to catch
the dog chased the rabbit
The policeman chased the mugger down the alley -
observe or plot the moving path of something
track a missile -
travel across or pass over
The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day -
carry on the feet and deposit
track mud into the house - make tracks upon
How To Use track In A Sentence
- Spending on a perennial effort to expand gambling at race tracks, known as "racino," increased four-fold to about $620,000 in 2010. StarTribune.com rss feed
- 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.
- The CDC asks states to report confirmed flu deaths by age group but not by subtype, meaning H1N1 deaths are not necessarily tracked. STLtoday.com Top News Headlines
- The couple have blocked access to the track, forcing horse owners to make a long and muddy detour across fields. Times, Sunday Times
- Spin, the tracks were mostly inspired by surfing, except for the instrumental "Lady Dada's Nightmare", which is an homage to Lady Gaga, and the title track, which is about "the world economic crisis. Pitchfork: Latest News
- The series is so competitive that an extra second on a pit stop or getting through traffic on the racetrack can mean the difference between finishing first or fourth.
- This ought to have been fine - if Phaethon had not been like a rock-star's child with a new red Ferrari, scorching off the track, shrivelling crops, turning forest to desert, doubtless melting ice-caps if the Greeks had known about ice-caps, and only stopping when Zeus called a halt with a well-aimed world-saving thunderbolt. Peter Stothard - Times Online - WBLG:
- It was built on the track of an elephant trail and it was so rough that it rattled our bones and sent the radio antenna into a series of harmonic wobbles.
- A great splosh to their left caused them again to stop in their tracks and the Countess let out a little squeal. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
