track
/ˈtɹæk/ verb B2- To observe the (measured) state of a person or object over time. · We will track the raven population over the next six months.
- To monitor the movement of a person or object. · Agent Miles has been tracking the terrorist since Madrid.
- 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.
- 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.
- To move. · The hurricane tracked further west than expected.
- To traverse; to move across.
- To tow.
- To exhibit good cognitive function. · Is the patient tracking? Does he know where he is?
He/she/it tracks · Past tracked · Past participle tracked · -ing form tracking
Verb forms
- Base form
- track
- He/she/it
- tracks
- Past
- tracked
- Past participle
- tracked
- -ing form
- tracking
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“How strange,” continued the king, with some asperity; “the police think that they have disposed of the whole matter when they say, ‘A murder has been committed,’ and especially so when they can add, ‘And we are on the track of the guilty persons.’”
“They are on the track of the man who appointed the meeting with him.”
“On his track?” said Villefort.
“On the contrary, sir,—on the contrary,” said Louis XVIII., “this affair seems to me to have a decided connection with that which occupies our attention, and the death of General Quesnel will, perhaps, put us on the direct track of a great internal conspiracy.” At the name of General Quesnel, Villefort trembled.
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