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# track

«track» in Mova's school dictionary: **a path or course for running or racing: a running track** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun, verb (track, tracks, tracked, tracking)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A track is a path or course for running or racing: a running track. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/track/#m1)

2) Tracks are the metal rails that trains run on. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/track/#m2)

3) Tracks are marks left on the ground by an animal, person or vehicle: footprints. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/track/#m3)

4) To track means to follow the marks of something, or to follow where it goes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/track/#m4)

5) To keep track of something is to keep count or know where it is. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/track/#m5)

6) A track is one song or piece on an album. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/track/#m6)

### sense in the lessons

Maths: a running track with laps and lengths: laps × length of the track gives the distance; keep track of numbers in a table or tally. Science: animal tracks show which animals passed. Safety: never play on railway tracks. Everyday: on track (going as planned), lose track of time, off the beaten track.

### examples

- The track is 400 meters around. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/track/#x1)
- She ran 3 laps of the track. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/track/#x2)
- He keeps track of his savings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/track/#x3)
- The train track is 20 km long. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/track/#x4)
- We found deer tracks in the snow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/track/#x5)
- Never walk on the railway tracks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/track/#x6)
- I lost track of time and was late. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/track/#x7)
- Use a tally chart to keep track of the votes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/track/#x8)
- He knew well how to track the deer and buffalo. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/track/#x9)

### note

Countable noun; regular verb. Laps × length of the track gives the distance. «Keep track» is just a phrase, no operation. Trap: «track» (path) is not «truck» (vehicle).

### In the corpora

- [In long conversations a bot can lose track of things said much earlier.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/7-pretend-games-quotes-and-two-bots/12/)
- [Multitrack recording puts each part on its own track, so one singer can record many layers of harmony.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/7-how-a-song-is-made-writing-recording-producing/9/)
- [The sidewinder snake moves sideways and touches the hot sand at only two points, leaving J-shaped tracks.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/182-deserts-of-the-world-fennec-foxes-fog-drinking-beetles-camels-and-silver-ants/7/)
- [Leading wolves break a path through snow and the others walk in their tracks to save energy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/240-wolves-and-teamwork-family-packs-the-alpha-myth-and-hunting-together/5/)
- [Scientists track big asteroids, and none of the known large ones will hit Earth in the next hundred years.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/271-the-asteroid-the-day-the-dinosaurs-died/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «track» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/track/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.