English Dictionary

track

/tɹæk/

verb

(transitive) To observe the (measured) state of a person or object over time. / (transitive) To monitor the movement of a person or object.

She likes to track her daily steps using a fitness app.

意味（1）

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

We will track the raven population over the next six months.

意味（2）

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

Agent Miles has been tracking the terrorist since Madrid.

意味（3）

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

My height tracks my father's at my age, so I might end up as tall as him.

意味（4）

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

The camera tracked the ball even as the field of play moved back and forth, keeping the action in shot the entire time.

意味（5）

(intransitive, chiefly of a storm) To move.

The hurricane tracked further west than expected.

意味（6）

(transitive) To traverse; to move across.

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; […]

意味（7）

(transitive) To tow.

意味（8）

(intransitive) To exhibit good cognitive function.

Is the patient tracking? Does he know where he is?

意味（9）

(transitive) To follow the tracks of.

My uncle spent all day tracking the deer, whose hoofprints were clear in the mud.

意味（10）

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

I tracked Joe to his friend's bedroom, where he had spent the night.

意味（11）

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

In winter, my cat tracks mud all over the house.

意味（12）

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

意味（13）

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

At the time, tracking chiptunes (i.e. using trackers) was the fundamental method of chipmusic-making.

意味（14）

(intransitive, colloquial) To make sense; to be consistent with known information

Vitron isn't hiding anything. The oil is there, the books are open, everything tracks.