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track
English
Etymology
From Middle English trak, tracke, from Old French trac (“track of horses, trail, trace”), of uncertain origin. Likely from a Germanic source, either Old Norse traðk ("a track; path; trodden spot"; > Icelandic traðk (“a track; path; tread”), Faroese traðk (“track; tracks”), Norwegian tråkke (“to trample”)) or from Middle Dutch trec, *trac, treck ("line, row, series"; > Dutch trek (“a draft; feature; trait; groove; expedition”)), German Low German Treck (“a draught; movement; passage; flow”). See tread, trek.
Pronunciation
- enPR: tr?k, IPA(key): /t?æk/
- Rhymes: -æk
Noun
track (plural tracks)
- A mark left by something that has passed along.
- Synonyms: trace, trail, wake
- A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or animal.
- Synonyms: footprint, impression
- The entire lower surface of the foot; said of birds, etc.
- A road or other similar beaten path.
- Synonyms: path, road, way
- Physical course; way.
- Synonyms: course, path, trajectory, way
- A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc.
- Synonyms: course, racetrack
- The direction and progress of someone or something; path.
- (railways) The way or rails along which a train moves.
- Synonyms: rails, railway, train tracks, tracks
- A tract or area, such as of land.
- Synonyms: area, parcel, region, tract
- (slang) The street, as a prostitute's place of work.
- 2012, Pimpin' Ken, PIMPOLOGY: The 48 Laws of the Game (page 11)
- A real pimp is a gentleman, but these are pimps in gorilla suits. They hang around pimps, they have hoes on the track working for them, they may even look like pimps, but they are straight simps.
- 2012, Paul D. Jones, Twilight Nights: The Trials and Tribulations of the Game (page 130)
- After putting Tonya Down on the track, we headed to this club called the Players Club.
- 2012, Pimpin' Ken, PIMPOLOGY: The 48 Laws of the Game (page 11)
- Awareness of something, especially when arising from close monitoring.
- (automotive) The distance between two opposite wheels on a same axletree.
- Synonym: track width
- (automotive) Short for caterpillar track.
- (cricket) The pitch.
- Synonyms: ground, pitch
- Sound stored on a record.
- Synonym: recording
- The physical track on a record.
- Synonym: groove
- (music) A song or other relatively short piece of music, on a record, separated from others by a short silence.
- A circular (never-ending) data storage unit on a side of magnetic or optical disk, divided into sectors.
- (uncountable, sports) The racing events of track and field; track and field in general.
- Synonyms: athletics, track and field
- 1973, University of Virginia Undergraduate Record
- The University of Virginia belongs to the Atlantic Coast Conference and competes interscholastically in basketball, baseball, crew, cross country, fencing, football, golf, indoor track, lacrosse, polo, soccer, swimming, tennis, track, and wrestling.
- A themed set of talks within a conference.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
See also
- path
- trail
Verb
track (third-person singular simple present tracks, present participle tracking, simple past and past participle tracked)
- To continue over time.
- (transitive) To observe the (measured) state of a person or object over time.
- We will track the raven population over the next six months.
- (transitive) To monitor the movement of a person or object.
- Agent Miles has been tracking the terrorist since Madrid.
- (transitive) To match the movement or change of a person or object.
- My height tracks my father's at my age, so I might end up as tall as him.
- (transitive or intransitive, of a camera) To travel so that a moving object remains in shot.
- The camera tracked the ball even as the field of play moved back and forth, keeping the action in shot the entire time.
- (intransitive, chiefly of a storm) To move.
- The hurricane tracked further west than expected.
- (transitive) To traverse; to move across.
- 1837, Elizabeth Parker, Popular Poems. Selected by E. P. (page 228)
- I've swept o'er the mountain, the forest and fell, / I've played on the rock where the wild chamois dwell; / I have tracked the desert so dreary and rude, / Through the pathless depths of its solitude; […]
- 1837, Elizabeth Parker, Popular Poems. Selected by E. P. (page 228)
- (transitive) To tow.
- (intransitive) To exhibit good cognitive function.
- Is the patient tracking? Does he know where he is?
- 2004, Catherine Anderson, Blue Skies, Penguin (?ISBN), page 39:
- Bess already knew about the painkillers and alcohol not mixing well.... "I wasn't tracking very well."
- 2010 October 1, "karimitch" (username), "Memory Loss - Pancreatic Cancer Forums", in cancerforums.net, Cancer Forums:
- My mother in the past couple of days has started to really get confused and lose her train of thought easily.... She isn't tracking very well.
- (transitive) To observe the (measured) state of a person or object over time.
- (transitive) To follow the tracks of.
- My uncle spent all day tracking the deer, whose hoofprints were clear in the mud.
- (transitive) To discover the location of a person or object by following traces.
- I tracked Joe to his friend's bedroom, where he had spent the night.
- 2017 August 25, Aukkarapon Niyomyat & Panarat Thepgumpanat, "Thai junta seeks Yingluck's arrest as former PM skips court verdict", in reuters.com, Reuters:
- "She could be at any hospital...she could be ill. It's not clear whether she has fled," he told reporters. "Yingluck has many homes and many cars. It is difficult to track her."
- (transitive) To leave in the form of tracks.
- In winter, my cat tracks mud all over the house.
- (transitive) To make tracks on.
- (transitive or intransitive) To create a musical recording (a track).
- Lil Kyle is gonna track with that DJ next week.
- (computing, transitive or intransitive) To create music using tracker software.
- 2018, Dafni Tragaki, Made in Greece: Studies in Popular Music
- At the time, tracking chiptunes (i.e. using trackers) was the fundamental method of chipmusic-making.
- 2018, Dafni Tragaki, Made in Greece: Studies in Popular Music
- (intransitive, colloquial) To make sense; to be consistent with known information
Synonyms
- (observe the state of an object over time): monitor
- (monitor the movement of a person or object): follow
- (discover the location of a person or object): find, locate, trace, track down
- (be consistent with known information): make sense, check out
Derived terms
- track down
- track with
- tracking shot
Related terms
- tracker
Translations
Spanish
Etymology
From English track.
Noun
track m (plural tracks)
- (sports) track
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evidence
English
Etymology
From Middle English evidence, from Old French [Term?], from Latin evidentia (“clearness, in Late Latin a proof”), from evidens (“clear, evident”); see evident.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??v?d?ns/, /??v?d?ns/
- (US) IPA(key): [??v???ns]
- Hyphenation: ev?i?dence
Noun
evidence (usually uncountable, plural evidences)
- Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
- 1748, David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
- In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.
- 1748, David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
- (law) Anything admitted by a court to prove or disprove alleged matters of fact in a trial.
- One who bears witness.
- 1820, Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer, volume 1, page 53:
- He recapitulated the Sybil’s story word by word, with the air of a man who is cross-examining an evidence, and trying to make him contradict himself.
- 1820, Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer, volume 1, page 53:
- A body of objectively verifiable facts that are positively indicative of, and/or exclusively concordant with, that one conclusion over any other.
Usage notes
- Adjectives often used with the term "evidence": documentary, physical, empirical, scientific, material, circumstantial, anectodal, objective, strong, weak, conclusive, hard
Derived terms
Related terms
- evident
- evidential
Translations
Verb
evidence (third-person singular simple present evidences, present participle evidencing, simple past and past participle evidenced)
- (transitive) To provide evidence for, or suggest the truth of.
Usage notes
- To be distinguished from evince.
Translations
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:evidence.
Further reading
- evidence in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- evidence in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [??v?d?nt?s?]
- Rhymes: -?nts?
Noun
evidence f
- records
- registry, repository
Related terms
- See vize
- eviden?ní
- evidovat
- evidentní
See also
- záznamy
- databáze
- registr
Further reading
- evidence in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- evidence in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Friulian
Noun
evidence f (plural evidencis)
- evidence
Middle French
Noun
evidence f (plural evidences)
- evidence
Descendants
- French: évidence
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