Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - track
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1. n. & v. --n. 1 a a mark or marks left by a person, animal, or thing in passing. b (in pl.) such marks esp. footprints. 2 a rough path, esp. one beaten by use. 3 a continuous railway line (laid three miles of track). 4 a a racecourse for horses, dogs, etc. b a prepared course for runners etc. 5 a a groove on a gramophone record. b a section of a gramophone record containing one song etc. (this side has six tracks). c a lengthwise strip of magnetic tape containing one sequence of signals. 6 a a line of travel, passage, or motion (followed the track of the hurricane; America followed in the same track). b the path travelled by a ship, aircraft, etc. (cf. COURSE n. 2c). 7 a continuous band round the wheels of a tank, tractor, etc. 8 the transverse distance between a vehicle's wheels. 9 = SOUNDTRACK. 10 a line of reasoning or thought (this track proved fruitless). --v. 1 tr. follow the track of (an animal, person, spacecraft, etc.). 2 tr. make out (a course, development, etc.); trace by vestiges. 3 intr. (often foll. by back, in, etc.) (of a film or television camera) move in relation to the subject being filmed. 4 intr. (of wheels) run so that the back ones are exactly in the track of the front ones. 5 intr. (of a gramophone stylus) follow a groove. 6 tr. US a make a track with (dirt etc.) from the feet. b leave such a track on (a floor etc.). Phrases and idioms in one's tracks colloq. where one stands, there and then (stopped him in his tracks). keep (or lose) track of follow (or fail to follow) the course or development of. make tracks colloq. go or run away. make tracks for colloq. go in pursuit of or towards. off the track away from the subject. on a person's track 1 in pursuit of him or her. 2 in possession of a clue to a person's conduct, plans, etc. on the wrong side of (or across) the tracks colloq. in an inferior or dubious part of town. on the wrong (or right) track following the wrong (or right) line of inquiry. track down reach or capture by tracking. track events running-races as opposed to jumping etc. (cf. field events). tracking station an establishment set up to track objects in the sky. track-laying (of a vehicle) having a caterpillar tread. track record a person's past performance or achievements. track shoe a spiked shoe worn by a runner. track suit a loose warm suit worn by an athlete etc. for exercising or jogging. track system US streaming in education. track with Austral. sl. associate with, court. Derivatives trackage US n. Etymology: ME f. OF trac, perh. f. LG or Du. tre(c)k draught etc. 2. v. 1 tr. tow (a boat) by rope etc. from a bank. 2 intr. travel by being towed. Etymology: app. f. Du. trekken to draw etc., assim. to TRACK(1)
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English trak, from Middle French trac Date: 15th century 1. detectable evidence (as the wake of a ship, a line of footprints, or a wheel rut) that something has passed, a path made by or as if by repeated footfalls ; trail, a course laid out especially for racing, the parallel rails of a railroad, e. one of a series of parallel or concentric paths along which material (as music or information) is recorded (as on a phonograph record or magnetic tape), a group of grooves on a phonograph record containing recorded sound, material recorded especially on or as if on a ~ , a usually metal way (as a groove) serving as a guide (as for a movable lighting fixture), a footprint whether recent or fossil , 3. the course along which something moves or progresses, a way of life, conduct, or action, one of several curricula of study to which students are assigned according to their needs or levels of ability, the projection on the earth's surface of the path along which something (as a missile or an airplane) has flown, 4. a sequence of events ; a train of ideas ; succession, an awareness of a fact, progression, or condition , 5. the width of a wheeled vehicle from wheel to wheel and usually from the outside of the rims, the tread of an automobile tire, either of two endless belts on which a ~laying vehicle travels, ~-and-field sports, see: trace ~less adjective II. verb Date: 1565 transitive verb 1. to follow the ~s or traces of ; trail, to search for by following evidence until found , 2. to follow by vestiges ; trace, to observe or plot the moving path of (as a spacecraft or missile) often instrumentally, to travel over ; traverse , 4. to make ~s upon, to carry (as mud) on the feet and deposit, to keep ~ of (as a trend) ; follow, intransitive verb travel , 2. to follow the groove undulations of a recording, b. of a pair of wheels to maintain a constant distance apart on the straightaway, to fit a ~ or rails, to follow accurately the corresponding fore wheel on a straightaway, to leave ~s (as on a floor), ~er noun ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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