Word Finder - track

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A mark left by something that has passed along.

example

Can you see any tracks in the snow?

synonyms

• trace
• trail
• wake

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A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or animal.

example

The fox tracks were still visible in the snow.

synonyms

• footprint
• impression

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The entire lower surface of the foot; said of birds, etc.

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A road or other similar beaten path.

example

Follow the track for a hundred metres.

synonyms

• path
• road
• way

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Physical course; way.

example

Astronomers predicted the track of the comet.

synonyms

• course
• path
• trajectory
• way

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A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc.

example

The athletes ran round the track.

synonyms

• course
• racetrack

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The direction and progress of someone or something; path.

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The way or rails along which a train moves.

example

They briefly closed the railway to remove debris found on the track.

synonyms

• rails
• railway
• tracks
• train tracks

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A tract or area, such as of land.

synonyms

• area
• parcel
• region
• tract

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The street, as a prostitute's place of work.

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Awareness of something, especially when arising from close monitoring.

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The distance between two opposite wheels on a same axletree.

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• track width

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Short for caterpillar track.

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The pitch.

synonyms

• ground
• pitch

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Sound stored on a record.

synonyms

• recording

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The physical track on a record.

synonyms

• groove

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A song or other relatively short piece of music, on a record, separated from others by a short silence.

example

My favourite track on the album is "Sunshine".

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A circular (never-ending) data storage unit on a side of magnetic or optical disk, divided into sectors.

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The racing events of track and field; track and field in general.

example

I'm going to try out for track next week.

synonyms

• athletics
• track and field

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A session talk on a conference.

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To continue over time.

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To follow the tracks of.

example

My uncle spent all day tracking the deer, whose hoofprints were clear in the mud.

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To make tracks on.

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To create a musical recording (a track).

example

Lil Kyle is gonna track with that DJ next week.

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To make sense; to be consistent with known information

As they come under one horizon, they shout their warning to get off the track to the other, heard sometimes through the circles of two towns.

I want to see if I can track them this time.

They traveled until she lost track of time.

If someone was able to track her, she needed to flee, fast.

I lost track of time until Alex came along and revived my interest in the ranch.

You keeping track of me as well?

She may even be able to track Elise with them, since she knew her ID number.

He can track Others.

The track was long and ran straight to the edge of the roadway, and then into nothingness.

Just learn to track them while we have Charles here.

We'll figure out which route she took and track her.

You know how hard it is to track down everyone one-by-one to relay orders?

Hard to keep track of what's going on.

The Original Being was impossible to track with his senses and seemed to fade in and out of existence.

Keep on your own track, then.

I knew to right the train on the track apologies needed be given.

I can't even track them.

Darkyn can track her.

Then he added, with a professional air, "We'll track her down."

Has he not thought that I may do the same? and he turned inquiringly to Balashev, and evidently this thought turned him back on to the track of his morning's anger, which was still fresh in him.

It wasn't the first time she had seen a bear track, but it was the first time she had seen one that fresh.

I tried my hand at getting him back on track.

That device can track where you are at any time.

I'm the only one who can track them, and only when I'm close enough to kill them.

They were able to track the demons attacking schools.

He wanted to track any remaining demons in the forest and kill them, too.

Sarah said, "She probably lost track of time and is in a dead zone."

I was taking a route no one else could track.

Eyes glued to Xander, she lost track of him in the shadows and returned her attention to Darian, who was tangling with three more Others.

Alex was alert for the rest of the ride, even noting a bear track once.

Xander opened the program that allowed him to track the GPS markers he planted in Jessi's belongings.

From this point the explorer worked in a south-westerly direction to Queen Victoria Springs, where he struck the track of Giles's expedition of 1875.

David Carnegie, which started in July 1896, and travelled north-easterly until it reached Alexander Spring; then turning northward, it traversed the country between Wells's track of 1896 and the South Australian border.

Barry Links, a triangular sandy track occupying the south-eastern corner of the shire, are used as a camping and manoeuvring ground for the artillery and infantry forces of the district, and occasionally of Scotland.

Thus, in the case of one station and one moving railway carriage, there is a circuit consisting partly of the earth, partly of the ordinary telegraph wires at the side of the track, and partly of the circuits of the telephone receiver at one place and the secondary of the induction coil at the other, two air gaps existing in this circuit.

Insects, especially running insects, which have followed the track of honey glands upwards from the stem along the leaf, reach the mouth of the pitcher, and in their efforts to sip the attractive marginal glands fall over into the liquid.

He greatly improved the rough track over the Simplon Pass, so that, when finished in 1807, it was practicable for artillery.

The Magnoliaceous genus Drimys, with a single species in the new world, follows the same track.

The French followed closely on the track of John Cabot, and Norman and Breton fishermen frequented the banks of Newfoundland at the beginning of the 16th century.

Many English voyages were also made to Guinea and the West Indies, and twice English vessels followed in the track of Magellan, and circumnavigated the globe.

The total paid-up railway capital of the United Kingdom amounted, in 1908, to £1,310,533,212, or an average capitalization of £56,476 per route mile, though it should be noted that this total included £196,364,618 of nominal additions through " stock-splitting," &c. Per mile of single track, the capitalization in England and Wales, Scotland, Ireland and the United Kingdom, is shown in Table VIII.

A system of charges which compels each piece of traffic to pay its share of the charges for track and for stations overlooks the fundamental fact that a very large part of the expenses of a railway - more than half - is not connected either with the cost of moving traffic or of handling traffic at stations, but with the cost of maintaining the property as a whole.

Being struck or run over by a train while standing or walking on the track is the largest single cause of " railway accidents."

Accidents due to simple climbing are, however, exceedingly rare, and are usually found associated with a faulty track, with " plunging " movements of the locomotive or vehicle, or with a " tight gauge " at curves or points.

The ballast consists of such materials as broken stone, furnace slag, gravel, cinders or earth, the lower layers commonly consisting of coarser materials than the top ones, and its purpose is to provide a firm, well-drained foundation in which the sleepers or crossties may be embedded and held in place, and by which the weight of the track and the trains may be distributed over the road-bed.

At terminal stations, especially at such as are used by short-distance trains which arrive at and start from the same platform, a third track is often laid between a pair of platform tracks, so that the engine of a train which has arrived at the platform can pass out and place itself at the other end of the train, which remains undisturbed.

This may be rectangular in shape (" straight " shed), containing a series of parallel tracks on which the engines stand and which are reached by means of points and crossings diverging from a main track outside; or it may take a polygonal or circular form (round house or rotunda), the lines for the engines radiating from a turn-table which occupies the centre and can be rotated so as to serve any of the radiating lines.

The water cranes or towers which are placed at intervals along the railway to supply the engines with water require similar care in regard to the quality of the water laid on to them, as also to the water troughs, or track tanks as they are called in America, by which engines are able to pick up water without stopping.

The maximum weight which one pair of wheels are usually allowed to carry on a first-class track is from 18 to 20 tons.

First, it must be able to exert a tractive force sufficient to start the train under the worst conditions possible on the railway over which it is to operate - for instance, when the train is stopped by signal on a rising gradient where the track is curved and fitted with a guard-rail.