Dictionary
Thesaurus
Encyclopedia
Translator
Web
Related Searches
Synonyms
Nearby Words

keep track

 - 4 dictionary results
keeping track
Student, Visitor, & Staff Tracking Access control - Free Demo
www.KeepnTrack.com
Keeping Track
By Jeannie Oakes. Only $16.24 Free shipping on orders over $25
Amazon.com/NonfictionBooks
Keep Track
Register for Free Business Software Demos. Registration Required!
www.2020Software.com

track

  [trak]
Use keep track in a Sentence
–noun
1. a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
2. a wheel rut.
3. evidence, as a mark or a series of marks, that something has passed.
4. Usually, tracks. footprints or other marks left by an animal, person, or vehicle: a lion's tracks; car tracks.
5. a path made or beaten by or as if by the feet of people or animals; trail: to follow the track of a murderer.
6. a line of travel or motion: the track of a bird.
7. a course or route followed.
8. a course of action, conduct, or procedure: on the right track to solve the problem.
9. a path or course made or laid out for some particular purpose.
10. a series or sequence of events or ideas.
11. something associated with making a track, as the wheel span of a vehicle or the tread of a tire.
12. a caterpillar tread.
13. Sports.
a. a course laid out for running or racing.
b. the group of sports performed on such a course, as running or hurdling, as distinguished from field events.
c. both track and field events as a whole.
14. Recording.
a. a band of recorded sound laid along the length of a magnetic tape.
b. band 2 (def. 6).
c. an individual song or segment of a recording: a title track.
d. a discrete, separate recording that is combined with other parts of a musical recording to produce the final aural version: a special rhythm track added to the basic track.
15. Automotive. the distance between the centers of the treads of either the front or rear wheels of a vehicle.
16. 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.
17. tracks, Slang. needle marks on the arm, leg, or body of a drug user caused by habitual injections.
18. sound track.
19. a metal strip or rail along which something, as lighting or a curtain, can be mounted or moved.
20. 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.
–verb (used with object)
21. to follow or pursue the track, traces, or footprints of.
22. to follow (a track, course, etc.).
23. to make one's way through; traverse.
24. to leave footprints on (often fol. by up or on): to track the floor with muddy shoes.
25. to make a trail of footprints with (dirt, snow, or the like): The dog tracked mud all over the living room rug.
26. to observe or monitor the course or path of (an aircraft, rocket, satellite, star, etc.), as by radar or radio signals.
27. to observe or follow the course of progress of; keep track of.
28. to furnish with a track or tracks, as for railroad trains.
29. Railroads. to have (a certain distance) between wheels, runners, rails, etc.
–verb (used without object)
30. to follow or pursue a track or trail.
31. to run in the same track, as the wheels of a vehicle.
32. to be in alignment, as one gearwheel with another.
33. to have a specified span between wheels or runners: The car's wheels track about five feet.
34. Movies, Television. dolly (def. 12).
35. Recording. to follow the undulations in the grooves of a phonograph record.
—Verb phrase
36. track down, to pursue until caught or captured; follow: to track down a killer.
—Idioms
37. in one's tracks, Informal. in the spot in which one is or is standing at the moment: He stopped dead in his tracks, listening for the sound to be repeated.
38. keep track, to be aware; keep informed: Have you been keeping track of the time?
39. lose track, to fail to keep informed; neglect to keep a record: He soon lost track of how much money he had spent.
40. make tracks, Informal. to go or depart in a hurry: to make tracks for the store before closing time.
41. off the track, departing from the objective or the subject at hand; astray: He can't tell a story without getting off the track.
42. on the track of, in search or pursuit of; close upon: They are on the track of a solution to the problem.
43. on the wrong or right side of the tracks, from a poor or wealthy part of a community or of society: born on the wrong side of the tracks.
Origin:
1425–75; late ME trak (n.) < MF trac, perh. < ON trathk trodden spot; cf. Norw trakke to trample; akin to tread

Related forms:
track⋅a⋅ble, adjective
track⋅a⋅bil⋅i⋅ty, noun
tracker, noun

Synonyms:
3. trace, record, spoor. 21. stalk, hunt.
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2009.
Cite This Source Link To keep track
keeping track
Student, Visitor, & Staff Tracking Access control - Free Demo
www.KeepnTrack.com
Keeping Track
By Jeannie Oakes. Only $16.24 Free shipping on orders over $25
Amazon.com/NonfictionBooks
Slang Dictionary
track

  1. in.
    [for a laser beam, a phonograph stylus, a tape head, etc.] to successfully transfer information to or from a recording medium. : Something here won't track. Must be the stylus.
  2. in.
    [for a person] to make sense. (Usually in the negative.) : She wasn't tracking. There was no sense in trying to talk to her before she came out of it.
  3. in.
    to coincide; to agree; to jibe. : These two things don't track. I don't know what's wrong.
  4. n.
    a musical selection on a recording of some kind. : The next track is my favorite.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
Cite This Source
Word Origin & History

track  (n.)
1470, "footprint, mark left by anything," from O.Fr. trac "track of horses, trace" (1440), possibly from a Gmc. source (cf. M.L.G. treck, Du. trek "drawing, pulling;" see trek). Meaning "lines of rails for drawing trains" is from 1805. Meaning "branch of athletics involving a running track" is recorded from 1905. Meaning "single recorded item" is from 1904, originally in ref. to phonograph records. Meaning "mark on skin from repeated drug injection" is first attested 1964. The verb meaning "to follow or trace the footsteps of" is recorded 1565, from the noun. Track record (1965) is a figurative use from horse racing. To make tracks "move quickly" is Amer.Eng. colloquial first recorded 1835; to cover (one's) tracks in the fig. sense first attested 1898; to keep track of something is attested from 1883. The metaphor in Amer.Eng. wrong side of the tracks "bad part of town" has been traced back to 1929. Track lighting attested from 1972.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
Cite This Source
Idioms & Phrases

keep track

Remain informed, follow the course of, as in Are you keeping track of the time? This usage alludes to following a literal track, as of footsteps. The antonym, lose track, alludes to straying or wandering from a track, as in I've lost trackwhat day are you leaving? [Late 1800s]

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
Cite This Source
Search another word or see keep track on Thesaurus | Reference
Keep Track
Register for Free Business Software Demos. Registration Required!
www.2020Software.com
FacebookTwitterFollow us: