English Explanatory Dictionary

track

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A mark left by something that has passed along.
  2. A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or animal.
  3. The entire lower surface of the foot; said of birds, etc.
  4. A road or other similar beaten path.
  5. Physical course; way.
  6. A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc.
  7. The direction and progress of someone or something; path.
  8. The way or rails along which a train moves.
  9. A tract or area, such as of land.
  10. The street, as a prostitute's place of work.
  11. Awareness of something, especially when arising from close monitoring.
  12. The distance between two opposite wheels on a same axletree.
verb
  1. To continue over time.
  2. To observe the (measured) state of a person or object over time.
  3. To monitor the movement of a person or object.
  4. To match the movement or change of a person or object.
  5. To travel so that a moving object remains in shot.
  6. To move.
  7. To traverse; to move across.
  8. To tow.
  9. To exhibit good cognitive function.
  10. To follow the tracks of.
  11. To discover the location of a person or object by following traces.
  12. To make tracks on or to leave in the form of tracks.

Pronunciation

/ˈtɹæk/ [ˈt̠ɹ̠̊˔ʷæk] [ˈtɹ̝̊ʷæk] En-us-track.ogg En-au-track.ogg

Word forms

track tracks tracking tracked

Etymology

From Middle English trak, tracke, from Old French trac (“track of horses, trail, trace”), of uncertain origin. Likely from a Germanic source, either Old Norse traðk ("a track; path; trodden spot"; > Icelandic traðk (“a track; path; tread”), Faroese traðk (“track; tracks”), Norwegian tråkke (“to trample”)) or from Middle Dutch trec, *trac, treck ("line, row, series"; > Dutch trek (“a draft; feature; trait; groove; expedition”)), German Low German Treck (“a draught; movement; passage; flow”). See tread, trek.

Synonyms

trace trail wake footprint impression path road way course trajectory racetrack rails railway train tracks tracks area parcel region tract track width ground pitch recording groove athletics track and field monitor follow find locate track down make sense check out

Related words

path trail tracker

Derived words

8-track Amtrak art track audiotrack backing track backtrack belt track betrack biotrack buzz track Cascio tracks click track continuous track crawler track crosstrack detrack dirt track diss track doubletrack down the track dreaming track dreamtime track exercise track flaptrack flat-track bully four-track ghost track half-track half-tracker hallway track inside track intertrack keep track laughter track laugh track long track microtrack midtrack mid-track minitrack mistrack multitrack mummy track nanotrack off the beaten track off the track off-track one-track one-track mind on the right track on the wallaby track on the wrong track on track overtrack peritrack Polytrack rail-track retrack sea track sheeptrack

Translations

Armenian: ռելսուղի Belarusian: тра́са Belarusian: пуць Belarusian: даро́га Bulgarian: ре́лсов път Czech: kolej Danish: spor Esperanto: trako Finnish: rata French: voie Saterland Frisian: Boan Galician: vía German: Gleis Greek: ράγα Hebrew: נָתִיב Hebrew: מַסְלוּל Hindi: सड़क Hungarian: pálya Hungarian: sínpálya Hungarian: drótpálya Hungarian: kötélpálya Hungarian: vasúti pálya Italian: binario Italian: sessione Italian: discorso Macedonian: коловоз Malay: jalan Malay: landasan Occitan: via Occitan: camin de fèrre Occitan: via ferrada Portuguese: via férrea Portuguese: trilhos Portuguese: ferrovia Russian: тра́сса Russian: путь Russian: колея́ Slovak: koľaj Spanish: vía Ukrainian: тра́са Ukrainian: шлях Ukrainian: доро́га Ukrainian: путь Bulgarian: проследявам Czech: sledovat Finnish: seurata German: verfolgen Italian: monitorare Italian: seguire Māori: aroturuki Māori: whaiwhai Occitan: tracar Occitan: perseguir Occitan: seguir Occitan: tralhar Russian: отсле́живать Ukrainian: сте́жити Ukrainian: відсте́жувати Ukrainian: відсте́жити Ukrainian: слідкува́ти Ukrainian: прослідкува́ти Ukrainian: відслідко́вувати Ukrainian: відслідкува́ти
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