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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.
- 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:
- 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
- Keeping specific goals and metrics for testing in mind not only helps track status and results, but also avoids the last-second scramble to pull together necessary reports.
- 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
- By the time they were lurching slowly along the cart track the wind had dropped, letting the clouds gather.
- I passed plunging gorges, streams in spate, riverbanks ripped open, fields flooded, a brown soup drowning the track.
- Marshals struggled in vain to prevent spectators rushing onto the racetrack.
