Definitions for tracking

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tracking track·ing

Spelling: [trak-ing]

IPA: /ˈtræk ɪŋ/

Tracking is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 271 anagrams from letters in tracking (acgiknrt).

Definitions for tracking

noun

1. track system.
2. a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
3. a wheel rut.
4. evidence, as a mark or a series of marks, that something has passed.
5. Usually, tracks. footprints or other marks left by an animal, person, or vehicle:
6. a path made or beaten by or as if by the feet of people or animals; trail:
7. a line of travel or motion:
8. a course or route followed.
9. a course of action, conduct, or procedure:
10. a path or course made or laid out for some particular purpose.
11. a series or sequence of events or ideas.
12. something associated with making a track, as the wheel span of a vehicle or the tread of a tire.
13. a caterpillar tread.
14. Sports. a course laid out for running or racing. the group of sports performed on such a course, as running or hurdling, as distinguished from field events. both track and field events as a whole.
15. Recording. a band of recorded sound laid along the length of a magnetic tape. band2 (def 6). an individual song or segment of a recording: a discrete, separate recording that is combined with other parts of a musical recording to produce the final aural version:
16. Automotive. the distance between the centers of the treads of either the front or rear wheels of a vehicle.
17. Computers. a data-recording path on a storage medium, as a magnetic disk, tape, or drum, that is accessible to a read-write head in a given position as the medium moves past.
18. tracks, Slang. needle marks on the arm, leg, or body of a drug user caused by habitual injections.
19. sound track.
20. a metal strip or rail along which something, as lighting or a curtain, can be mounted or moved.
21. Education. a study program or level of curriculum to which a student is assigned on the basis of aptitude or need; academic course or path.

Idioms

1. in one's tracks, Informal. in the spot in which one is or is standing at the moment:
2. keep track, to be aware; keep informed:
3. lose track, to fail to keep informed; neglect to keep a record:
4. make tracks, Informal. to go or depart in a hurry:
5. off the track, departing from the objective or the subject at hand; astray:
6. on the track of, in search or pursuit of; close upon:
7. on the wrong / right side of the tracks, from a poor or wealthy part of a community or of society:

Verb phrases

1. track down, to pursue until caught or captured; follow:

verb (used with object)

1. to follow or pursue the track, traces, or footprints of.
2. to follow (a track, course, etc.).
3. to make one's way through; traverse.
4. to leave footprints on (often followed by up or on):
5. to make a trail of footprints with (dirt, snow, or the like):
6. to observe or monitor the course or path of (an aircraft, rocket, satellite, star, etc.), as by radar or radio signals.
7. to observe or follow the course of progress of; keep track of.
8. to furnish with a track or tracks, as for railroad trains.
9. Railroads. to have (a certain distance) between wheels, runners, rails, etc.

verb (used without object)

1. to follow or pursue a track or trail.
2. to run in the same track, as the wheels of a vehicle.
3. to be in alignment, as one gearwheel with another.
4. to have a specified span between wheels or runners:
5. Movies, Television. dolly (def 12).
6. Recording. to follow the undulations in the grooves of a phonograph record.

Origin of tracking

1425-75; late Middle English trak (noun) Middle French trac, perhaps Old Norse trathk trodden spot; compare Norwegian trakke to trample; akin to tread

Examples for tracking

Google tracking your search history and sharing your data with third parties?

Danger is to them always lurking and tracking their steps as closely as their shadow.

Moreover, a good stockman gets to be experienced in tracking.

Now, see again—I tell you they have not been tracking us, and I will prove it.

I have been tracking you since the second day of our acquaintance.'

We just stumbled onto you as you were tracking something in the woods.

A dozen Revolutionary Guards were caught deep inside Pakistan, tracking Rigi.

MIT Professor Eric Alm thinks that sewers are the missing link to tracking public health.

“We are tracking down the man,” the Bangalore Police Commissioner said.

She recounts sending Ivgy a script, then tracking the actress down at school.