Locate vs. Track — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Locate and Track
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Definitions
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
