What (who) is track - definition
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track
Added on to any adjective to exaggerate how appropriate the description is.
A: Luke is so wonderful.
B: No, Luke is wonderful...track.
A: Luke is so wonderful.
B: No, Luke is wonderful...track.
track
n.
awareness
1) to keep track of (to keep track of expenses)
2) to lose track of
3) close track (to keep close track of smt.)
course for racing
4) a fast; muddy; slow track
5) a cinder track; racetrack; running track
path, road
6) a cart track (BE; AE has dirt road)
7) (misc.) off the beaten track ('isolated')
rail
8) to lay tracks
9) a double; main; railroad (AE), railway (BE); single track
10) (misc.) on the wrong side of the tracks (AE; colloq.) ('in the poor section of a city')
recording
11) a sound track
misc.
12) the inside track ('an advantageous position')
USAGE NOTE: For footraces, track is CE. For horseracing, AE uses track and racetrack; BE prefers course and racecourse.
track
(tracks, tracking, tracked)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
A track is a narrow road or path.
We set off once more, over a rough mountain track.
= path
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2.
A track is a piece of ground, often oval-shaped, that is used for races involving athletes, cars, bicycles, horses, or dogs called greyhounds.
The two men turned to watch the horses going round the track.
...the athletics track.
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3.
Railway tracks are the rails that a train travels along.
A woman fell on to the tracks.
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4.
A track is one of the songs or pieces of music on a CD, record, or tape.
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5.
Tracks are marks left in the ground by the feet of animals or people.
The only evidence of pandas was their tracks in the snow...
N-PLURAL: oft supp N
6.
If you track animals or people, you try to follow them by looking for the signs that they have left behind, for example the marks left by their feet.
He thought he had better track this wolf and kill it...
VERB: V n
7.
To track someone or something means to follow their movements by means of a special device, such as a satellite or radar.
Our radar began tracking the jets...
VERB: V n
8.
If you track someone or something, you investigate them, because you are interested in finding out more about them.
If it's possible, track the rumour back to its origin...
VERB: V n
9.
In a school, a track is a group of children of the same age and ability who are taught together. (AM; in BRIT, use stream
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10.
To track students means to divide them into groups according to their ability. (AM; in BRIT, use stream
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Students are already being tracked.
VERB: be V-ed, also V n
• tracking
Tracking assigns some students to college prep and others to vocational programs.
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11.
12.
If someone covers their tracks, they hide or destroy evidence of their identity or their actions, because they want to keep them secret.
He covered his tracks, burnt letters and diaries...
PHRASE: V inflects
13.
If you say that someone has the inside track, you mean that they have an advantage, for example special knowledge about something. (mainly AM or JOURNALISM)
Denver has the inside track among 10 sites being considered...
PHRASE: V inflects
14.
If you keep track of a situation or a person, you make sure that you have the newest and most accurate information about them all the time.
With eleven thousand employees, it's very difficult to keep track of them all...
PHRASE: V inflects, PHR n
15.
If you lose track of someone or something, you no longer know where they are or what is happening.
You become so deeply absorbed in an activity that you lose track of time...
PHRASE: V inflects, PHR n
16.
If you make tracks, you leave the place where you are, especially when you are in a hurry. (INFORMAL)
We'd better make tracks soon, hadn't we?
PHRASE: V inflects
17.
If someone or something is on track, they are acting or progressing in a way that is likely to result in success.
It may take some time to get the British economy back on track...
PHRASE: PHR after v, v-link PHR
18.
If you are on the track of someone or something, you are trying to find them, or find information about them.
He was on the track of an escaped criminal...
= on the trail of
PHRASE: PHR n, usu v-link PHR
19.
If you are on the right track, you are acting or progressing in a way that is likely to result in success. If you are on the wrong track, you are acting or progressing in a way that is likely to result in failure.
Guests are returning in increasing numbers-a sure sign that we are on the right track...
The country was headed on the wrong track, economically.
PHRASE: v-link PHR, PHR after v
20.
If someone or something stops you in your tracks, or if you stop dead in your tracks, you suddenly stop moving because you are very surprised, impressed, or frightened.
The thought almost stopped me dead in my tracks.
PHRASE: V inflects
21.
If someone or something stops a process or activity in its tracks, or if it stops dead in its tracks, they prevent the process or activity from continuing.
U.S. manufacturers may find the export boom stopping dead in its tracks.
PHRASE: V inflects
22.
Pronunciation examples for track
1. track.
Life After College _ Jenny Blake _ Talks at Google
2. track.
The World Needs All Kinds of Minds _ Temple Grandin _ Talks at Google
3. track.
When Violence is The Answer _ Tim Larkin _ Talks at Google
4. track?
Stand Up_Speak Out - The Need for Asian American Activism Today _ Erika Lee _ Talks at Google
5. track.
Broadway's Once on this Island _ Talks at Google
Examples of use of track
1. "We track library books better than we track sex offenders.
2. "As far as me being competitive, this track was never a good track for us, but we were still the fastest car on the track," he added.
3. Steady progress on the Lebanese track "remains to be matched" on the Syrian track, it added.
4. When an AP–Ipsos poll asked the "right track, wrong track" question this month, 77 percent said they thought the country was on the wrong track.
5. In yesterday’s case, when cracks were detected in the track on Jammu–Udhampur track, when train carrying hundreds of passengers was fast approaching the faulty track.