Collins English-English Dictionary

track [træk]

1. 1. n the mark or trail left by something that has passed by

   the track of an animal

2. 2. n any road or path affording passage, esp a rough one

3. 3. n a rail or pair of parallel rails on which a vehicle, such as a locomotive, runs, esp the rails together with the sleepers, ballast, etc, on a railway

4. 4. n a course of action, thought, etc

   don't start on that track again!

5. 5. n a line of motion or travel, such as flight

6. 6. n an endless jointed metal band driven by the wheels of a vehicle such as a tank or tractor to enable it to move across rough or muddy ground

7. 7. n [physics] the path of a particle of ionizing radiation as observed in a cloud chamber, bubble chamber, or photographic emulsion

8. 8. n a course for running or racing

9. 9. n (as modifier)

   track events

10. 10. n [US and Canadian] sports performed on a track

11. 11. n track and field events as a whole

12. 12. n a path on a magnetic recording medium, esp magnetic tape, on which information, such as music or speech, from a single input channel is recorded

13. 13. n any of a number of separate sections in the recording on a record, CD, or cassette

14. 14. n a metal path that makes the interconnections on an integrated circuit

15. 15. n the distance between the points of contact with the ground of a pair of wheels, such as the front wheels of a motor vehicle or the paired wheels of an aircraft undercarriage

16. 16. n a hypothetical trace made on the surface of the earth by a point directly below an aircraft in flight

17. 17. n See beaten

18. 18. vb to follow the trail of (a person, animal, etc)

19. 19. vb to follow the flight path of (a satellite, spacecraft, etc) by picking up radio or radar signals transmitted or reflected by it

20. 20. vb [US] [railways] to provide with a track

21. 21. vb to run on a track of (a certain width)

22. 22. vb (of a camera or camera operator) to follow (a moving object) in any direction while operating

23. 23. vb to move (a camera) towards the scene (track in) or away from the scene (track out)

24. 24. vb to follow a track through (a place)

    to track the jungles

25. 25. vi. [intr] (of the pick-up, stylus, etc, of a record player) to follow the groove of a record

    the pick-up tracks badly

26. 26. vi. See also tracks

27. 27. vi. [Etymology] C15: from Old French trac, probably of Germanic origin; related to Middle Dutch tracken to pull, Middle Low German trecken; compare Norwegian trakke to trample