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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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stretch
English
Etymology
From Middle English strecchen, from Old English stre??an (“to stretch, hold out, extend, spread out, prostrate”), from Proto-West Germanic *strakkjan (“to stretch, make taut or tight”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)treg-, *streg-, *treg- (“stiff, rigid”). Cognate with West Frisian strekke, Dutch strekken (“to stretch, straighten”), German strecken (“to stretch, straighten, elongate”), Danish strække (“to stretch”), Swedish sträcka (“to stretch”), Dutch strak (“taut, tight”), Albanian shtriqem (“to stretch”). More at stark.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st??t?/
- Rhymes: -?t?
Verb
stretch (third-person singular simple present stretches, present participle stretching, simple past and past participle stretched or (obsolete) straught or (obsolete) straight)
- (transitive) To lengthen by pulling.
- (intransitive) To lengthen when pulled.
- 1660, Robert Boyle, New Experiments Physico-Mechanical: Touching the Spring of the Air and their Effects
- The inner membrane […] because it would stretch and yield, remained unbroken.
- 1660, Robert Boyle, New Experiments Physico-Mechanical: Touching the Spring of the Air and their Effects
- (transitive) To pull tight.
- (figuratively, transitive) To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
- (figuratively, transitive) To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
- (intransitive) To extend physically, especially from limit point to limit point.
- (intransitive, transitive) To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body in order to improve the elasticity of one's muscles
- (intransitive) To extend to a limit point
- (transitive) To increase.
- (obsolete, colloquial) To stretch the truth; to exaggerate.
- (nautical) To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Ham. Nav. Encyc to this entry?)
- (slang, transitive, archaic) To execute by hanging.
- To make great demands on the capacity or resources of something.
Translations
See also
- pandiculate
Noun
stretch (plural stretches)
- An act of stretching.
- The ability to lengthen when pulled.
- A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief or exaggeration.
- A segment of a journey or route.
- A segment or length of material.
- (Britain, slang, archaic) A walk.
- Evelyn Underhill, quoted in 2010, Evelyn Underhill, ?Carol Poston, The Making of a Mystic: New and Selected Letters of Evelyn Underhill (page 81)
- In the afternoon I went for a stretch into the country, & about 4 it cleared up pretty well, so I hurried back & we got a cart & drove to Bassano, a little town about 8 miles off, that we wanted to see.
- Evelyn Underhill, quoted in 2010, Evelyn Underhill, ?Carol Poston, The Making of a Mystic: New and Selected Letters of Evelyn Underhill (page 81)
- (baseball) A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead of lifting it.
- (baseball) A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman in order to catch the ball sooner.
- (informal) Term of address for a tall person.
- (horse racing) The homestretch, the final straight section of the track leading to the finish.
- A length of time.
- After the harvest there was a stretch of clear dry weather, and the animals toiled harder than ever […]
- (Ireland) Extended daylight hours, especially said of the evening in springtime when compared to the shorter winter days.
- (sports) The period of the season between the trade deadline and the beginning of the playoffs.
- (slang) A jail or prison term.
- Synonym: stint
- (slang) A jail or prison term of one year's duration.
- A single uninterrupted sitting; a turn.
- A stretch limousine.
Translations
Derived terms
Descendants
- Esperanto: stre?i
Further reading
- stretch at OneLook Dictionary Search
References
- (a walk): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
Anagrams
- strecht
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