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Grammar : Noun
Spell : trak
Phonetic Transcription : træk

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Définition of track

Origin :
  • late 15c., "footprint, mark left by anything," from Old French trac "track of horses, trace" (mid-15c.), possibly from a Germanic source (cf. Middle Low German treck, Dutch trek "drawing, pulling;" see trek). Meaning "lines of rails for drawing trains" is from 1805. Meaning "branch of athletics involving a running track" is recorded from 1905. Meaning "single recorded item" is from 1904, originally in reference to phonograph records. Meaning "mark on skin from repeated drug injection" is first attested 1964.
  • Track record (1955) is a figurative use from racing, "performance history" of an individual car, runner, horse, etc.(1907, but the phrase was more common in sense "fastest speed recorded at a particular track"). To make tracks "move quickly" is American English colloquial first recorded 1835; to cover (one's) tracks in the figurative sense first attested 1898; to keep track of something is attested from 1883. American English wrong side of the tracks "bad part of town" is by 1901. Track lighting attested from 1970.
  • noun mark, print made by something
  • noun path, way
Example sentences :
  • They've put lots of good weight-carriers off the track before they was due to go.
  • Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • Robert pointed in silence to the huge rock which lay on the track.
  • Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger
  • The track was plain enough, and there were hamlets at long intervals.
  • Extract from : « The Armourer's Prentices » by Charlotte M. Yonge
  • You wouldn't think it was a hundred yards back from the track, would you?
  • Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • His last letter gives no clue to the track he intended to pursue.
  • Extract from : « Explorations in Australia » by John Forrest
  • Got on the track just before dark and followed it along a few miles.
  • Extract from : « Explorations in Australia » by John Forrest
  • We left the track to examine a gully to the north, but could not find any water.
  • Extract from : « Explorations in Australia » by John Forrest
  • Taking to the water threw the hounds off the scent of the track.
  • Extract from : « Biography of a Slave » by Charles Thompson
  • Though I felt a subtle and wondrous change, I could not trace or track the miracle.
  • Extract from : « The Bacillus of Beauty » by Harriet Stark
  • "I t'ought I see a b'y skinnin' off the track," commented Gaynor.
  • Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser
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