Definition of "track"

A mark left by something that has passed along.  examples

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

The entire lower surface of the foot; said of birds, etc.  examples

A road or other similar beaten path.  examples

Physical course; way.  examples

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

The direction and progress of someone or something; path.  quotations  examples

(railways) The way or rails along which a train moves.  examples

A tract or area, such as of land.  examples

(slang) The street, as a prostitute's place of work.  quotations

Awareness of something, especially when arising from close monitoring.  quotations  examples

(automotive) The distance between two opposite wheels on a same axletree.  examples

(automotive) Short for caterpillar track.  examples

(cricket) The pitch.  examples

Sound stored on a record.  examples

The physical track on a record.  examples

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

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

(uncountable, sports) The racing events of track and field; track and field in general.  quotations  examples

A themed set of talks within a conference.  examples

(fashion, colloquial) Clipping of trackshoe.  examples

To continue over time.

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

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

   Quotations

   • Vlad says there is an American drone the Russians can't track. He wants a lot more of those.

     2022 May 5, Erin Burnett, 3:37 from the start, in See how gamers are outwitting and helping to kill Russian soldiers‎, CNN, archived from the original on 13 May 2022

3. (transitive) To match the movement or change of a person or object.  examples

4. (transitive or intransitive, of a camera) To travel so that a moving object remains in shot.  examples

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

6. (transitive) To traverse; to move across.  quotations  examples

   Quotations

   • 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

7. (transitive) To tow.  examples

8. (intransitive) To exhibit good cognitive function.  quotations  examples

   Quotations

   • Bess already knew about the painkillers and alcohol not mixing well.... "I wasn't tracking very well."

     2004, Catherine Anderson, Blue Skies, Penguin, page 39

   • 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.

     2010 October 1, "karimitch" (username), "Memory Loss - Pancreatic Cancer Forums", in cancerforums.net, Cancer Forums

(transitive) To follow the tracks of.  examples

(transitive) To discover the location of a person or object by following traces.  quotations  examples

(transitive) To make tracks on or to leave in the form of tracks.  examples

(transitive or intransitive) To create a musical recording (a track).

1. (computing, transitive or intransitive) To create music using tracker software.  quotations  examples

   Quotations

   • 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  quotations  examples