The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on thetrack. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.
The direction and progress of someone or something; path.
2009, Kenneth H. Talan,Help Your Child Or Teen Get Back on Track,→ISBN:
You cannot simply “get” your child back ontrack; you and others can only help your child with that task.
2010, Randall Lee,Memoirs to My Women,→ISBN, page242:
Mytrack record was enough proof that I couldn't use women for medicinal purposes, and even my attempts at casual relationships were not adequate enough to even temporarily release the poisons inside me.
(railways) The way orrails along which a train moves.
2012, Pimpin' Ken,PIMPOLOGY: The 48 Laws of the Game, page11:
A real pimp is a gentleman, but these are pimps in gorilla suits. They hang around pimps, they have hoes on thetrack working for them, they may even look like pimps, but they are straight simps.
2012, Paul D. Jones,Twilight Nights: The Trials and Tribulations of the Game, page130:
After putting Tonya Down on thetrack, we headed to this club called the Players Club.
2006, James J. Gross, Michael F. Callahan,Money and Divorce: The First 90 Days and After,→ISBN, page24:
You will need to keeptrack of meetings with your lawyer and court deadlines.
2012, Steven Gurgevich, Joy Gurgevich,The Self-Hypnosis Diet,→ISBN:
We have to formulate what we want, be so concentrated on it, so focused on it, and so aware of it that we losetrack of ourselves, we losetrack of time, we losetrack of our identity.
The University of Virginia belongs to the Atlantic Coast Conference and competes interscholastically in basketball, baseball, crew, cross country, fencing, football, golf, indoor track, lacrosse, polo, soccer, swimming, tennis,track, and wrestling.
1992 February 2, Carrie Wofford, “Fifth National Black Gay Conference”, inGay Community News, volume19, number28, page 1:
This year's third annual Women's Institute will include twotracks—on health and organizational issues—because of the overwhelming response and demand for more workshops last year.
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Agent Miles has beentracking the terrorist since Madrid.
2022 May 5,Erin Burnett, 3:37 from the start, inSee how gamers are outwitting and helping to kill Russian soldiers[1],CNN, archived fromthe original on13 May 2022:
Vlad says there is an American drone the Russians can'ttrack. He wants a lot more of those.
(transitive) Tomatch the movement or change of a person or object.
My heighttracks my father's at my age, so I might end up as tall as him.
(transitive or intransitive, of a camera) To travel so that a moving object remains in shot.
The cameratracked the ball even as the field of play moved back and forth, keeping the action in shot the entire time.
1837, Elizabeth Parker,Popular Poems. Selected by E. P., page228:
I've swept o'er the mountain, the forest and fell, / I've played on the rock where the wild chamois dwell; / I havetracked the desert so dreary and rude, / Through the pathless depths of its solitude;[…]
"She could be at any hospital...she could be ill. It's not clear whether she has fled," he told reporters. "Yingluck has many homes and many cars. It is difficult totrack her."
(transitive) To make tracks on or to leave in the form of tracks.
1988, “The Rifle”, inDynasty, season 8, episode15:
Vitron isn't hiding anything. The oil is there, the books are open, everythingtracks.
2002, “Midnight Sun”, inWithout a Trace, season 1, episode10:
Before he took off, our guy went online... to transfer all his personal accounts into his checking account. CDs, money market funds, everything. Thattracks. According to Nick, he was trying to sell the dry cleaners.
2019, “Cleared for Approach”, inManifest, season 1, episode13:
There was an electrical storm in the center of this blizzard, Ben. It's extremely rare, but it can happen. Dark lightning? I can't prove it, but ittracks.
To separate into educational tracks, each of which teaches to a different level of ability.
1990 February 4, Leonard Tirado, “Privatized 'Recovery' Versus Collective Action”, inGay Community News, volume17, number29, page19:
Most working class kids are purposely "tracked" through schools, kept uninformed about scholarships and remedial education/vocation programs and shepherded into dead-end jobs.
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