[trak], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a rough path or road, typically one beaten by use rather than constructed
(e.g: follow the track to the farm)

- a mark or line of marks left by a person, animal, or vehicle in passing
(e.g: he followed the tracks made by the cars in the snow)

- a continuous line of rails on a railway
(e.g: commuters had to leave trains to walk along the tracks)

- a recording of one song or piece of music
(e.g: the CD contains early Elvis Presley tracks)

- a continuous articulated metal band around the wheels of a heavy vehicle such as a tank, intended to facilitate movement over rough or soft ground

- the transverse distance between a vehicle's wheels
(e.g: the undercarriage was fully retractable inwards into the wing, with a 90 inch track)

- a group in which schoolchildren of the same age and ability are taught


Phrases:
- in one's tracks
- keep track of
- lose track of
- make tracks
- on the right track
- on the wrong track
- on track
- the wrong side of the tracks

Origin:
late 15th century (in the sense ‘trail, marks left behind’): the noun from Old French trac, perhaps from Low German or Dutch trek ‘draught, drawing’; the verb (current senses dating from the mid 16th century) from French traquer or directly from the noun

[trak], (Verb)

Definitions:
- follow the trail or movements of (someone or something), typically in order to find them or note their course
(e.g: secondary radars that track the aircraft in flight)

- (of wheels) run so that the back ones are exactly in the track of the front ones

- (of a tunable circuit or component) vary in frequency in the same way as another circuit or component, so that the frequency difference between them remains constant


Phrases:
- in one's tracks
- keep track of
- lose track of
- make tracks
- on the right track
- on the wrong track
- on track
- the wrong side of the tracks

Origin:
late 15th century (in the sense ‘trail, marks left behind’): the noun from Old French trac, perhaps from Low German or Dutch trek ‘draught, drawing’; the verb (current senses dating from the mid 16th century) from French traquer or directly from the noun

[trak], (Verb)

Definitions:
- tow (a canoe) along a waterway from the bank
(e.g: he was going to track the canoe up the ice-hung rapids)


Phrases:

Origin:
early 18th century: apparently from Dutch trekken ‘to draw, pull, or travel’. The change in the vowel was due to association with track