Word Finder - tracks

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A mark left by something that has passed along.

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Can you see any tracks in the snow?

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• trace
• trail
• wake

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

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The fox tracks were still visible in the snow.

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• 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.

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• path
• road
• way

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Physical course; way.

example

Astronomers predicted the track of the comet.

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• course
• path
• trajectory
• way

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

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The athletes ran round the track.

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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• ground
• pitch

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Sound stored on a record.

synonyms

• recording

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The physical track on a record.

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• groove

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

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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.

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

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• 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.

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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

The train crouched silent on the tracks in a feline pose, as if hovering over a kill.

She made a circle around the carcass looking for tracks and finally found one.

The drive consisted of two tire tracks worn into the grass.

Of course, even a greenhorn could follow the wagon tracks they would leave in the sand.

Of the fauna of the lower slopes, tracks of elephant, leopard and buffalo have been seen, between 11,500 and 14,500 ft.

Like an Avon notice on a doorknob, the tracks in the mud were proof of an unobserved visit.

Why did every thought train follow the tracks to Bordeaux?

Suddenly he stopped in his tracks and abruptly sat on the curb.

In 1885 Arthur Douglas Carey and Andrew Dalgleish, following more or less the tracks of Prjevalsky, contributed much that was new to the map of Asia; and in 1886 Captain (afterwards Sir Francis) Younghusband completed a most adventurous journey across the heart of the continent by crossing the Murtagh, the great mountain barrier between China and Kashmir.

Parallel experiments with layers of dough or sand plus some connecting material proved that the particles in all cases moved along the same tracks as would be followed by a flowing cylinder of liquid.

Wagon tracks lead to Ngami, 320 m.

Tacoma is served by the Northern Pacific, the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound, and the Tacoma Eastern railways; the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railway operates through trains to and from Missouri river points and Tacoma, over the Northern Pacific tracks, which are also used by the Great Northern and Oregon & Washington railways.

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They may consist of earth with a retaining wall along the tracks and with the surface gravelled or paved with stone or asphalt, or they may be constructed entirely of timber, or they may be formed of stone slabs supported on longitudinal walls.

The streets as originally laid out were wide and spacious, but being unpaved and undrained they were no better than mud tracks diversified by piles of garbage and foul-smelling stagnant pools.

In order to reach water sufficiently deep for the steamers, the railway tracks have been carried by earth filling about seven-eighths of a mile into the bay.

The Southern railway penetrates the state as far as Jacksonville, over the tracks of the Atlantic Coast Line.

Exhaustive orders to organize the necessary trains were duly issued, but the emperor seems to have had no conception of the difficulties the tracks - there were no metalled roads - of Poland were about to present to him.

The main haulage tracks are laid at the bottom of the stope, which thus forms the level.

Near the top and bottom of hoisting shafts the tracks are usually graded to permit the cars to be run to and from the shaft by gravity.

There may be two complete lines of track or three lines of rails, one being common to both tracks, and the cars passing on a middle turnout or " parting "; or a single track with a parting.

Access to Chitral from the north is therefore but a matter of practicable tracks, or passes, in two or three directions, and the measure of practicability under any given conditions can best be reckoned from Chitral itself.

By most authorities the possibility of an advance in force from the north, even under the most favourable conditions, is considered to be exceedingly small; but the tracks and passes of the Hindu Kush are only impracticable so long as they are left as nature has made them.

On the old clearings of another village Mr Bates himself, although he did not see a gorilla, saw the fresh tracks of these great apes and the torn stems and discarded fruit rinds of the "mejoms," as well as the broken stalks of the latter, which had been used for beds.

In the first case Mr Bates states that the tracks and beds indicated the presence of three or four gorillas, some of which were small.

The soft shales or clays of the hills bounding the valley render these hills especially subject to the action of denudation, and the result, in rounded slopes and easily accessible crests, determines the nature of the easy tracks and passes which intersect them.

A later bridge, the Manhattan, is designed to carry four railway tracks and four tramway lines, with a wide roadway and footpaths, supported by cables 214 in.

Apart from the main lines of communication the roads are very rough, often mere tracks; and the principal means of transport are ox-carts or pack-mules.

Tracks of a belt line transfer company encircle the city, and altogether there are more than 500 m.

Enghien and Turenne had arranged that the Army of France was to move direct upon Freiburg by Wolfenweiter, while the Army of Weimar was to make its way by hillside tracks to Wittnau and thence to attack the rear of Mercy's lines while Enghien assaulted them in front.

It is crossed by several tracks, passable for pack-animals, the most in use being the road between Sawlon, the capital of Gantarawadi and Man Mail.

Its construction may fairly be taken to mark the period at which the roads of which we have spoken, hitherto probably mere tracks, began to be transformed into real highways.

Roads suitable for wheeled vehicles are found in Lower Egypt, but the majority of the tracks are bridle-paths, goods being conveyed on the backs of donkeys, mules and camels.

It is necessary to avoid the river, and to pass by mountain tracks which surmount a series of local spurs or offshoots from the central plateau, in order to reach the Oxus.

For the rest there is a network of tracks, all practically impassable by wheeled vehicles, extending over the country and connecting the towns and villages one with another.

Apart from the railways, communication is by ancient caravan routes and by ox-wagon tracks in the southern district.

But the Plateau was to be reached by Shackleton's way up the Beardmore glacier at which point the tracks converged.

They joined tracks near Ogden, Utah, in May 1869.

Transport in the plateau region was mainly effected by means of pack mules, over the roughest of tracks.

Certain markings on slates and sandstones, such as the "fucoids" of Scandinavia and Scotland, the Phycoides of the Fichtelgebirge, Eophyton and other seaweed-like impressions, may indeed be the casts of fucoid plants; but it is by no means sure that many of them are not mere inorganic imitative markings or the tracks or casts of worms. Oldhamia, a delicate branching body, abundant in the Cambrian of the south-east of Ireland, is probably a calcareous alga, but its precise nature has not been satisfactorily determined.

These two main streams of modern progress had been proceeding upon different tracks to diverse issues, but they touched in the studies stimulated by the Revival, and they had a common origin in the struggle of the spirit after self-emancipation.

When the cave was first entered, the floor was covered with thousands of tracks of raccoons, wolves and bears-most of them probably made long ago, as impressions made in the tenacious clay that composes most of the cavern floor would remain unchanged for centuries.

The traces of human occupation are pieces of charcoal, flints, moccasin tracks and a single skeleton embedded in stalagmite in one of the chasms, estimated, from the present rate of stalagmitic growth, to have lain where found for not more than five hundred years.

The neighbourhood of Areskutan and the Dalarne highlands, owing to the railway and the development of communications by steamer on the numerous lakes, are visited by considerable numbers of travellers, both Swedish and foreign, in summer; but the northern heights, crossed only by a few unfrequented tracks, are known to few, and to a considerable extent, indeed, have not been closely explored.

Each class of road was named after the authority responsible for its construction and upkeep. In some of the remoter rural districts there are only bridle-paths, or rough tracks, which become almost impassable in wet seasons, and are never suitable for vehicles less solid than the Portuguese ox-carts.

Traffic by street cars was made impossible by the twisting of the tracks.

It has four tracks - two for the main-line through traffic, and two for local and suburban service, and is carried at a height of about 20 ft.

It, moreover, twists and untwists during its action and describes figure-of-8 and waved tracks in space, precisely as the natural wing does.

While these are tracks frequently followed by the centres of barometric depressions, individual cyclones may and do cross the country in all directions, though very rarely indeed from east to west or from north to south.

The roads were until then, as a rule, merely tracks, deeply worn by ages of traffic into the semblance of ditches, and, under adverse weather conditions, impassable.