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Locate

Discover the exact place or position of
Engineers were working to locate the fault

Track

A mark or succession of marks left by something that has passed.

Locate

To determine or specify the position or limits of
Locate Albany on the map.
Managed to locate the site of the old artists' colony.

Track

A path, route, or course indicated by such marks
An old wagon track through the mountains.

Locate

To find by searching, examining, or experimenting
Locate the source of error.
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Track

A path along which something moves; a course
Following the track of an airplane on radar.

Locate

To place at a certain location; station or situate
Locate an agent in Rochester.

Track

A course of action; a method of proceeding
On the right track for solving the puzzle.

Locate

To become established; settle
New businesses that have located in town.

Track

An intended or proper course
Putting a stalled project back on track.
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Locate

(transitive) To place; to set in a particular spot or position.

Track

A succession of ideas; a train of thought.

Locate

(transitive) To find out where something is located.

Track

Awareness of something occurring or passing
Keeping track of the score.
Lost all track of time.

Locate

(transitive) To designate the site or place of; to define the limits of (Note: the designation may be purely descriptive: it need not be prescriptive.)
The council must locate the new hospital
To locate a mining claim
To locate (the land granted by) a land warrant

Track

A course laid out for running or racing.

Locate

To place oneself; to take up one's residence; to settle.

Track

Athletic competition on such a course; track events.

Locate

To place; to set in a particular spot or position.
The captives and emigrants whom he brought with him were located in the trans-Tiberine quarter.

Track

Track and field.

Locate

To designate the site or place of; to define the limits of; as, to locate a public building; to locate a mining claim; to locate (the land granted by) a land warrant.
That part of the body in which the sense of touch is located.

Track

A rail or set of parallel rails upon which railroad cars or other vehicles run.

Locate

To discover the location or site of; as, to locate the source of a radio transmission; to locate a leak; to locate the malfunction in a system.

Track

Tracks The boundary, formerly often delineated by train tracks, that separates two neighborhoods of different social class
Grew up on the wrong side of the tracks.

Locate

To place one's self; to take up one's residence; to settle; as, to locate in Seattle.

Track

Either of the continuous metal belts with which vehicles such as bulldozers and tanks move over the ground.

Locate

Discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining;
Can you locate your cousins in the Midwest?
My search turned up nothing

Track

A metal groove or ridge that holds, guides, and reduces friction for a moving device or apparatus.

Locate

Determine or indicate the place, site, or limits of, as if by an instrument or by a survey;
Our sense of sight enables us to locate objects in space
Locate the boundaries of the property

Track

Any of several courses of study to which students are assigned according to ability, achievement, or needs
Academic, vocational, and general tracks.

Locate

Assign a location to;
The company located some of their agents in Los Angeles

Track

A distinct path, as along a length of film or magnetic tape, on which sound, images, or other information is recorded.

Locate

Take up residence and become established;
The immigrants settled in the Midwest

Track

A distinct selection from an audio or video recording, usually containing an individual work or part of a larger work
The title track of an album.

Track

One of two or more separate recordings that are combined so as to be replayed simultaneously, as in stereophonic sound reproduction
Mixed the vocal track and instrumental track.

Track

One of the concentric magnetic rings that form the separate data storage areas on a floppy disk or a hard disk.

Track

A set of digital data encoded consecutively on an optical disc.

Track

Tracks(Slang) Needle marks on the skin from multiple intravenous injections, considered an indication of habitual drug use.

Track

To follow the tracks of; trail
Tracking game through the forest.

Track

To leave marks made of (dirt or mud, for example) on a surface
The dog tracked mud on the rug.

Track

To leave marks on (a floor, for example) when moving or traversing
You're tracking up my nice clean floor!.

Track

To observe or monitor the course of (an aircraft, for example), as by radar.

Track

To observe the progress of; follow
Tracking the company's performance daily.

Track

To determine or discover the location or origin of
Tracked the money to an offshore account.

Track

To equip with a track.

Track

To assign (a student) to a curricular track.

Track

To follow a course; travel
The storm is tracking up the coast.

Track

To keep a constant distance apart. Used of a pair of wheels.

Track

To be in alignment
The gears are not tracking properly.

Track

To follow the undulations in the groove of a phonograph record. Used of a needle.

Track

To move across magnetic heads. Used of magnetic tape.

Track

To move in relation to a subject being filmed. Used of a camera or camera crew.

Track

A mark left by something that has passed along.
Follow the track of the ship.
Can you see any tracks in the snow?

Track

A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or animal.
The fox tracks were still visible in the snow.

Track

The entire lower surface of the foot; said of birds, etc.

Track

A road or other similar beaten path.
Follow the track for a hundred metres.

Track

Physical course; way.
Astronomers predicted the track of the comet.

Track

A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc.
The athletes ran round the track.

Track

The direction and progress of someone or something; path.

Track

(railways) The way or rails along which a train moves. Category:en:Rail transportation
They briefly closed the railway to remove debris found on the track.

Track

A tract or area, such as of land.

Track

(slang) The street, as a prostitute's place of work.

Track

Awareness of something, especially when arising from close monitoring.

Track

(automotive) The distance between two opposite wheels on a same axletree.

Track

(automotive) caterpillar track

Track

(cricket) The pitch.

Track

Sound stored on a record.

Track

The physical track on a record.

Track

(music) A song or other relatively short piece of music, on a record, separated from others by a short silence.
My favourite track on the album is "Sunshine".

Track

A circular (never-ending) data storage unit on a side of magnetic or optical disk, divided into sectors.

Track

The racing events of track and field; track and field in general.
I'm going to try out for track next week.

Track

A themed set of talks within a conference.

Track

Clipping of trackshoe

Track

To continue over time.

Track

(transitive) To observe the (measured) state of a person or object over time.
We will track the raven population over the next six months.

Track

(transitive) To monitor the movement of a person or object.
Agent Miles has been tracking the terrorist since Madrid.

Track

(transitive) 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.

Track

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.

Track

To move.
The hurricane tracked further west than expected.

Track

(transitive) To traverse; to move across.

Track

(transitive) To tow.

Track

(intransitive) To exhibit good cognitive function.
Is the patient tracking? Does he know where he is?

Track

(transitive) To follow the tracks of.
My uncle spent all day tracking the deer, whose hoofprints were clear in the mud.

Track

(transitive) To discover the location of a person or object by following traces.
I tracked Joe to his friend's bedroom, where he had spent the night.

Track

(transitive) To make tracks on or to leave in the form of tracks.
In winter, my cat tracks mud all over the house.

Track

To create a musical recording (a track).
Lil Kyle is gonna track with that DJ next week.

Track

To create music using tracker software.

Track

To make sense; to be consistent with known information

Track

A mark left by something that has passed along; as, the track, or wake, of a ship; the track of a meteor; the track of a sled or a wheel.
The bright track of his fiery car.

Track

A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or beast; trace; vestige; footprint.
Far from track of men.

Track

The entire lower surface of the foot; - said of birds, etc.

Track

A road; a beaten path.
Behold Torquatus the same track pursue.

Track

Course; way; as, the track of a comet.

Track

A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc.

Track

The permanent way; the rails.

Track

A tract or area, as of land.

Track

To follow the tracks or traces of; to pursue by following the marks of the feet; to trace; to trail; as, to track a deer in the snow.
It was often found impossible to track the robbers to their retreats among the hills and morasses.

Track

To draw along continuously, as a vessel, by a line, men or animals on shore being the motive power; to tow.

Track

A line or route along which something travels or moves;
The hurricane demolished houses in its path
The track of an animal
The course of the river

Track

Evidence pointing to a possible solution;
The police are following a promising lead
The trail led straight to the perpetrator

Track

A pair of parallel rails providing a runway for wheels

Track

A course over which races are run

Track

A distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc;
He played the first cut on the cd
The title track of the album

Track

An endless metal belt on which tracked vehicles move over the ground

Track

(computer science) one of the circular magnetic paths on a magnetic disk that serve as a guide for writing and reading data

Track

A groove on a phonograph recording

Track

A bar or bars of rolled steel making a track along which vehicles can roll

Track

Any road or path affording passage especially a rough one

Track

The act of participating in an athletic competition involving running on a track

Track

Carry on the feet and deposit;
Track mud into the house

Track

Observe or plot the moving path of something;
Track a missile

Track

Go after with the intent to catch;
The policeman chased the mugger down the alley
The dog chased the rabbit

Track

Travel across or pass over;
The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day

Track

Make tracks upon

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