Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun track

11 senses of track

Sense 1
path, track, course -- (a line or route along which something travels or moves; "the hurricane demolished houses in its path"; "the track of an animal"; "the course of the river")
       => line -- (a spatial location defined by a real or imaginary unidimensional extent)

Sense 2
lead, track, trail -- (evidence pointing to a possible solution; "the police are following a promising lead"; "the trail led straight to the perpetrator")
       => evidence, grounds -- (your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief; "the evidence that smoking causes lung cancer is very compelling")

Sense 3
track -- (a pair of parallel rails providing a runway for wheels)
       => artifact, artefact -- (a man-made object taken as a whole)

Sense 4
racetrack, racecourse, raceway, track -- (a course over which races are run)
       => course -- (facility consisting of a circumscribed area of land or water laid out for a sport; "the course had only nine holes"; "the course was less than a mile")

Sense 5
cut, track -- (a distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc; "he played the first cut on the cd"; "the title track of the album")
       => excerpt, excerption, extract, selection -- (a passage selected from a larger work; "he presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings")

Sense 6
track, caterpillar track, caterpillar tread -- (an endless metal belt on which tracked vehicles move over the ground)
       => belt -- (endless loop of flexible material between two rotating shafts or pulleys)

Sense 7
track, data track -- ((computer science) one of the circular magnetic paths on a magnetic disk that serve as a guide for writing and reading data)
       => path, route, itinerary -- (an established line of travel or access)

Sense 8
track -- (a groove on a phonograph recording)
       => groove, channel -- (a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record))

Sense 9
track, rail, rails, runway -- (a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll)
       => bar -- (a rigid piece of metal or wood; usually used as a fastening or obstruction or weapon; "there were bars in the windows to prevent escape")

Sense 10
track, cart track, cartroad -- (any road or path affording passage especially a rough one)
       => road, route -- (an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation)

Sense 11
track, running -- (the act of participating in an athletic competition involving running on a track)
       => track and field -- (participating in athletic sports performed on a running track or on the field associated with it)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb track

5 senses of track

Sense 1
track -- (carry on the feet and deposit; "track mud into the house")
       => bring in, introduce -- (bring in a new person or object into a familiar environment; "He brought in a new judge"; "The new secretary introduced a nasty rumor")

Sense 2
track -- (observe or plot the moving path of something; "track a missile")
       => observe -- (watch attentively; "Please observe the reaction of these two chemicals")

Sense 3
chase, chase after, trail, tail, tag, give chase, dog, go after, track -- (go after with the intent to catch; "The policeman chased the mugger down the alley"; "the dog chased the rabbit")
       => pursue, follow -- (follow in or as if in pursuit; "The police car pursued the suspected attacker"; "Her bad deed followed her and haunted her dreams all her life")

Sense 4
traverse, track, cover, cross, pass over, get over, get across, cut through, cut across -- (travel across or pass over; "The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day")
       => pass, go through, go across -- (go across or through; "We passed the point where the police car had parked"; "A terrible thought went through his mind")

Sense 5
track -- (make tracks upon)
       => make, create -- (make or cause to be or to become; "make a mess in one's office"; "create a furor")

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