track
Từ điển Collocation
track noun
1 marks left behind by a car/a person/an animal
ADJ. deep | fresh | animal, boot, car, tyre The beach is criss-crossed with animal tracks.
VERB + TRACK leave, make Rabbits had left tracks in the snow. | cover (often figurative) He had been careless, and had done little to cover his tracks. | follow
PREP. on the ~ of (often figurative) She felt the excitement of a journalist on the track of a good story.
PHRASES freeze/halt/stop in your tracks (figurative), halt/stop sb/sth in their/its tracks (figurative) The disease was stopped in its tracks by immunization programmes. | make tracks (figurative) It's getting late?I'd better make tracks (= leave).
2 path/rough road
ADJ. narrow | wide | steep | bumpy, dusty, grassy, muddy, rough, rutted, sandy, slippery, stony | ancient, medieval | cinder, dirt, mud, unpaved | cart, cycle, sheep, ski | single a single track road with passing places | farm, forest/forestry, hillside, mountain, woodland | perimeter A few planes were parked on the perimeter track of the airfield.
VERB + TRACK follow
TRACK + VERB lead The track leads across a meadow. | fork When the track forks, take the left fork.
PREP. along/down/up a/the ~ Continue along the farm track for another hundred metres.
PHRASES off the beaten track (figurative) (= not in a place that most people go to), on the right/wrong track (figurative) The new manager successfully got the team back onto the right track. | on the wrong track (figurative) The police were on the wrong track when they treated the case as a revenge killing.
3 special path, often in a circle, for racing
ADJ. race (also racetrack), running | indoor, outdoor | all-weather | training, warm-up | fast | dog
PHRASES track and field The competition features many top track and field athletes.
4 metal rails on which a train runs
ADJ. rail, railway, tram | double, single | elevated | eastbound, westbound, etc. | narrow gauge, standard gauge
VERB + TRACK lay | lift Many branch lines were closed, and the tracks lifted.
TRACK + NOUN layout
5 direction/course that sb/sth takes
ADJ. fast, inside an inside track to the ear of government | parallel, twin a twin track approach to crime | career She decided to change her career track.
VERB + TRACK switch He switched tracks and went back to college.
PREP. along a/the ~ Film comedy developed along a similar track to film drama. | on (a/the) ~ A UN spokesman insisted that the implementation of the peace plan is back on track. The ship was on a southerly track. | ~ for She seems to be on the fast track for promotion. | ~ to The country is on the fast track to democracy.
PHRASES keep track of sth (= to know what is happening, where sth is, etc.) Keep track of all your payments by writing them down in a book. | lose track of sth (= to not know what is happening, where sth is, etc.) I was so absorbed in my work that I lost track of time.
6 one song/piece of music on a cassette/CD
ADJ. album | live | title | unreleased | dance, disco | backing | drum, guitar, rhythm, solo, vocal (see also soundtrack)
VERB + TRACK cut, lay down, record She had already cut a couple of tracks as lead singer with her own group. | play | listen to
Từ điển WordNet
n.
- a line or route along which something travels or moves; path, course
the hurricane demolished houses in its path
the track of an animal
the course of the river
- evidence pointing to a possible solution; lead, trail
the police are following a promising lead
the trail led straight to the perpetrator
- a pair of parallel rails providing a runway for wheels
- a course over which races are run; racetrack, racecourse, raceway
- a distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc; cut
he played the first cut on the cd
the title track of the album
- an endless metal belt on which tracked vehicles move over the ground; caterpillar track, caterpillar tread
- (computer science) one of the circular magnetic paths on a magnetic disk that serve as a guide for writing and reading data; data track
- a groove on a phonograph recording
- a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll; rail, rails
- any road or path affording passage especially a rough one; cart track, cartroad
- the act of participating in an athletic competition involving running on a track; running
v.
- carry on the feet and deposit
track mud into the house
- observe or plot the moving path of something
track a missile
- go after with the intent to catch; chase, chase after, trail, tail, tag, give chase, dog, go after
The policeman chased the mugger down the alley
the dog chased the rabbit
- travel across or pass over; traverse, cover, cross, pass over, get over, get across, cut through, cut across
The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day
- make tracks upon
Microsoft Computer Dictionary
n. One of numerous circular data storage areas on a floppy disk or a hard drive, comparable to a groove on a record but not spiral. Tracks, composed of sectors, are recorded on a disk by an operating system during a disk format operation. On other storage media, such as tape, a track runs parallel to the edge of the medium. See the illustration.vb. 1. To follow a path. 2. In data management, to follow the flow of information through a manual or an automated system. 3. In data storage and retrieval, to follow and read from a recording channel on a disk or a magnetic tape. 4.In computer graphics, to cause a displayed symbol, such as a pointer, to match on the screen the movements of a mouse or another pointing device.
English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary
tracks|tracked|tracking
syn.: cart track cartroad caterpillar track caterpillar tread chase chase after course cover cross cut cut across cut through data track dog get across get over give chase go after lead pass over path racecourse racetrack raceway rail rails running tag tail trail traverse
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