ALL meanings of tracking
track·ing
T t - noun tracking a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs. 1
- noun tracking a wheel rut. 1
- noun tracking evidence, as a mark or a series of marks, that something has passed. 1
- noun tracking Usually, tracks. footprints or other marks left by an animal, person, or vehicle: a lion's tracks; car tracks. 1
- noun tracking a path made or beaten by or as if by the feet of people or animals; trail: to follow the track of a murderer. 1
- noun tracking a line of travel or motion: the track of a bird. 1
- noun tracking a course or route followed. 1
- noun tracking a course of action, conduct, or procedure: on the right track to solve the problem. 1
- noun tracking a path or course made or laid out for some particular purpose. 1
- noun tracking a series or sequence of events or ideas. 1
- noun tracking something associated with making a track, as the wheel span of a vehicle or the tread of a tire. 1
- noun tracking a caterpillar tread. 1
- noun tracking Sports. a course laid out for running or racing. the group of sports performed on such a course, as running or hurdling, as distinguished from field events. both track and field events as a whole. 1
- noun tracking Recording. a band of recorded sound laid along the length of a magnetic tape. band2 (def 6). an individual song or segment of a recording: a title track. a discrete, separate recording that is combined with other parts of a musical recording to produce the final aural version: a special rhythm track added to the basic track. 1
- noun tracking Automotive. the distance between the centers of the treads of either the front or rear wheels of a vehicle. 1
- noun tracking Computers. a data-recording path on a storage medium, as a magnetic disk, tape, or drum, that is accessible to a read-write head in a given position as the medium moves past. 1
- noun tracking tracks, Slang. needle marks on the arm, leg, or body of a drug user caused by habitual injections. 1
- noun tracking sound track. 1
- noun tracking a metal strip or rail along which something, as lighting or a curtain, can be mounted or moved. 1
- noun tracking Education. a study program or level of curriculum to which a student is assigned on the basis of aptitude or need; academic course or path. 1
- verb with object tracking to follow or pursue the track, traces, or footprints of. 1
- verb with object tracking to follow (a track, course, etc.). 1
- verb with object tracking to make one's way through; traverse. 1
- verb with object tracking to leave footprints on (often followed by up or on): to track the floor with muddy shoes. 1
- verb with object tracking to make a trail of footprints with (dirt, snow, or the like): The dog tracked mud all over the living room rug. 1
- verb with object tracking to observe or monitor the course or path of (an aircraft, rocket, satellite, star, etc.), as by radar or radio signals. 1
- verb with object tracking to observe or follow the course of progress of; keep track of. 1
- verb with object tracking to furnish with a track or tracks, as for railroad trains. 1
- verb with object tracking Railroads. to have (a certain distance) between wheels, runners, rails, etc. 1
- verb without object tracking to follow or pursue a track or trail. 1
- verb without object tracking to run in the same track, as the wheels of a vehicle. 1
- verb without object tracking to be in alignment, as one gearwheel with another. 1
- verb without object tracking to have a specified span between wheels or runners: The car's wheels track about five feet. 1
- verb without object tracking Movies, Television. dolly (def 12). 1
- verb without object tracking Recording. to follow the undulations in the grooves of a phonograph record. 1
- idioms tracking in one's tracks, Informal. in the spot in which one is or is standing at the moment: He stopped dead in his tracks, listening for the sound to be repeated. 1
- idioms tracking keep track, to be aware; keep informed: Have you been keeping track of the time? 1
- idioms tracking lose track, to fail to keep informed; neglect to keep a record: He soon lost track of how much money he had spent. 1
- idioms tracking make tracks, Informal. to go or depart in a hurry: to make tracks for the store before closing time. 1
- idioms tracking off the track, departing from the objective or the subject at hand; astray: He can't tell a story without getting off the track. 1
- idioms tracking on the track of, in search or pursuit of; close upon: They are on the track of a solution to the problem. 1
- idioms tracking on the wrong / right side of the tracks, from a poor or wealthy part of a community or of society: born on the wrong side of the tracks. 1
- noun tracking following 1
- noun tracking car: wheel alignment 1
- noun tracking video recorder: head alignment 1
- noun tracking the act or process of following something or someone 0
- noun tracking a leakage of electric current between two points separated by an insulating material caused by dirt, carbon particles, moisture, etc 0
- noun tracking the way wheels on a vehicle are aligned 0
- noun tracking a function of a video cassette recorder, which adjusts the alignment of the heads in order to achieve the best possible audio and video reproduction from each recording 0