track
a line or route along which something travels or moves
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,341 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 7,406 times across 173,849 chapters — 0.004% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- a line or route along which something travels or moves also: path, course the hurricane demolished houses in its paththe track of an animal
- evidence pointing to a possible solution also: lead, trail the police are following a promising leadthe trail led straight to the perpetrator
- a pair of parallel rails providing a runway for wheels
- a course over which races are run also: racetrack, racecourse, raceway
- a distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc also: cut he played the first cut on the cdthe title track of the album
- an endless metal belt on which tracked vehicles move over the ground also: caterpillar track, caterpillar tread
track in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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You might, perhaps, thus make them lose your track.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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Down the track the signals seemed to show a clear road.
The Treasure-Train · Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve · Chapter 1
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The others saw that he was bending over a dim track in the sand.
The Winning of Barbara Worth · Harold Bell Wright · Chapter 1
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An advertisement in a newspaper had led his mother on the track of what she wanted.
The Soul of a Child · Edwin Björkman · Chapter 1
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No more, aghast and pale, From Ostia's walls the crowd shall mark 335 The track of thy destroying bark.
Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) · O. J. [Annotator] Stevenson · Chapter 1