different between track vs piste

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)

1. A mark left by something that has passed along.

   Synonyms: trace, trail, wake

2. A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or animal.

   Synonyms: footprint, impression

3. The entire lower surface of the foot; said of birds, etc.
4. A road or other similar beaten path.

   Synonyms: path, road, way

5. Physical course; way.

   Synonyms: course, path, trajectory, way

6. A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc.

   Synonyms: course, racetrack
7. The direction and progress of someone or something; path.
8. (railways) The way or rails along which a train moves.

   Synonyms: rails, railway, train tracks, tracks

9. A tract or area, such as of land.

   Synonyms: area, parcel, region, tract

10. (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.

11. Awareness of something, especially when arising from close monitoring.
12. (automotive) The distance between two opposite wheels on a same axletree.

    Synonym: track width

13. (automotive) Short for caterpillar track.
14. (cricket) The pitch.

    Synonyms: ground, pitch

15. Sound stored on a record.

    Synonym: recording

16. The physical track on a record.

    Synonym: groove

17. (music) A song or other relatively short piece of music, on a record, separated from others by a short silence.

18. A circular (never-ending) data storage unit on a side of magnetic or optical disk, divided into sectors.
19. (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.

20. 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)

1. To continue over time.
   1. (transitive) To observe the (measured) state of a person or object over time.

      We will track the raven population over the next six months.

   2. (transitive) To monitor the movement of a person or object.

      Agent Miles has been tracking the terrorist since Madrid.

   3. (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.

   4. (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.

   5. (intransitive, chiefly of a storm) To move.

      The hurricane tracked further west than expected.

   6. (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; […]

   7. (transitive) To tow.
   8. (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.

2. (transitive) To follow the tracks of.

   My uncle spent all day tracking the deer, whose hoofprints were clear in the mud.

   1. (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."

   2. (transitive) To leave in the form of tracks.

      In winter, my cat tracks mud all over the house.

3. (transitive) To make tracks on.
4. (transitive or intransitive) To create a musical recording (a track).

   Lil Kyle is gonna track with that DJ next week.

   1. (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.

5. (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)

1. (sports) track

English

Etymology

From French piste.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?st, -i?st

Noun

piste (plural pistes)

1. (skiing) A downhill trail.
2. (fencing) The field of play of a fencing match.
3. (archaic) The track left by somebody riding a horse.

Translations

Anagrams

• IP set, piets, septi-, spite, stipe

Dutch

Etymology 1

From French piste.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pist?/

Noun

piste f (plural pistes, diminutive pistetje n)

1. (skiing) piste
2. (circus) circus ring
3. (Belgium) trail, track

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?st?/

Verb

piste

1. singular past indicative and subjunctive of pissen

Finnish

Etymology

pistää +? -e. Originally a synonym of pisto (“sting; prick, puncture”). First used to mean "period, full stop, dot" by Gustaf Renvall and "point" in geometry by Wolmar Schildt; other meanings derive from those two.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?piste?/, [?pis?t?e?(?)]
• Rhymes: -iste
• Syllabification: pis?te

Noun

piste

1. (typography) point, dot, full stop, period
2. (mathematics) point (zero-dimensional object)
3. point (particular location)
4. point (something tiny)
5. point (mark or stroke above a letter)
6. point (unit of scoring)

   Synonyms: (colloquial) pojo, (colloquial) pinna

7. (typography) point (unit of font size or spacing)

Declension

Derived terms

• pisteyttää

Compounds

Related terms

Anagrams

• pesit, pesti, petsi, tepsi

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pist/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian pista, variant of pesta (“footprint”).

Noun

piste f (plural pistes)

1. track or trail (left by an animal or person)
2. track (road or other similar beaten path)

3. (figuratively) lead, hint (e.g. in a police investigation)

4. (aviation) runway

5. (music) track (on a recording)
6. racecourse
7. ring in a circus
8. floor (various activities such as dancing, skating, or fencing)

9. (skiing) piste

Derived terms

• brouiller les pistes
• piste courte
• piste cyclable
• piste de danse

Descendants

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

piste

1. inflection of pister:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “piste” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iste

Noun

piste f

1. plural of pista

Anagrams

• pesti

Latin

Participle

piste

1. vocative masculine singular of pistus

References

• piste in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Lithuanian

Participle

piste

1. "manner of action" b?dinys participle of pisti.

Neapolitan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pist?/

Noun

piste m

1. plural of pisto

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

Compare Persian ????? (peste).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?s?t?/

Noun

piste f (Arabic spelling ?????)

1. pistachio

References

• Chyet, Michael L. (2003) , “piste”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• pissa, pisset

Verb

piste

1. simple past of pisse