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 →

2) Tracks are the metal rails that trains run on. tree →

3) Tracks are marks left on the ground by an animal, person or vehicle: footprints. tree →

4) To track means to follow the marks of something, or to follow where it goes. tree →

5) To keep track of something is to keep count or know where it is. tree →

6) A track is one song or piece on an album. tree →

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 →
• She ran 3 laps of the track. tree →
• He keeps track of his savings. tree →
• The train track is 20 km long. tree →
• We found deer tracks in the snow. tree →
• Never walk on the railway tracks. tree →
• I lost track of time and was late. tree →
• Use a tally chart to keep track of the votes. tree →
• He knew well how to track the deer and buffalo. tree →

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.
• Multitrack recording puts each part on its own track, so one singer can record many layers of harmony.
• The sidewinder snake moves sideways and touches the hot sand at only two points, leaving J-shaped tracks.
• Leading wolves break a path through snow and the others walk in their tracks to save energy.
• Scientists track big asteroids, and none of the known large ones will hit Earth in the next hundred years.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «track» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.