Used Definition–adjective | 1. | previously used or owned; secondhand: a used car. | | 2. | showing wear or being worn out. | | 3. | employed for a purpose; utilized. | —Idiom | 4. | used to, accustomed or habituated to: I'm not used to cold weather. They weren't used to getting up so early. | |
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Tracker Definition–noun | 1. | a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs. | | 3. | evidence, as a mark or a series of marks, that something has passed. | | 4. | Usually, tracks. footprints or other marks left by an animal, person, or vehicle: a lion's tracks; car tracks. | | 5. | a path made or beaten by or as if by the feet of people or animals; trail: to follow the track of a murderer. | | 6. | a line of travel or motion: the track of a bird. | | 7. | a course or route followed. | | 8. | a course of action, conduct, or procedure: on the right track to solve the problem. | | 9. | a path or course made or laid out for some particular purpose. | | 10. | a series or sequence of events or ideas. | | 11. | something associated with making a track, as the wheel span of a vehicle or the tread of a tire. | | 13. | Sports. | a. | a course laid out for running or racing. | | b. | the group of sports performed on such a course, as running or hurdling, as distinguished from field events. | | c. | both track and field events as a whole. | | | 14. | Recording. | a. | a band of recorded sound laid along the length of a magnetic tape. | | c. | an individual song or segment of a recording: a title track. | | d. | 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. | | | 15. | Automotive. the distance between the centers of the treads of either the front or rear wheels of a vehicle. | | 16. | 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. | | 17. | tracks, Slang. needle marks on the arm, leg, or body of a drug user caused by habitual injections. | | 19. | a metal strip or rail along which something, as lighting or a curtain, can be mounted or moved. | | 20. | 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. | –verb (used with object) | 21. | to follow or pursue the track, traces, or footprints of. | | 22. | to follow (a track, course, etc.). | | 23. | to make one's way through; traverse. | | 24. | to leave footprints on (often fol. by up or on): to track the floor with muddy shoes. | | 25. | to make a trail of footprints with (dirt, snow, or the like): The dog tracked mud all over the living room rug. | | 26. | to observe or monitor the course or path of (an aircraft, rocket, satellite, star, etc.), as by radar or radio signals. | | 27. | to observe or follow the course of progress of; keep track of. | | 28. | to furnish with a track or tracks, as for railroad trains. | | 29. | Railroads. to have (a certain distance) between wheels, runners, rails, etc. | –verb (used without object) | 30. | to follow or pursue a track or trail. | | 31. | to run in the same track, as the wheels of a vehicle. | | 32. | to be in alignment, as one gearwhe
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el with another. | | 33. | to have a specified span between wheels or runners: The car's wheels track about five feet. | | 34. | Movies, Television. dolly (def. 12). | | 35. | Recording. to follow the undulations in the grooves of a phonograph record. | —Verb phrase | 36. | track down, to pursue un
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til caught or captured; follow: to track down a killer. | —Idioms | 37. | 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. | | 38. | keep track, to be aware; keep informed: Have you been keeping track of the time? | | 39. | lose track, to fail to keep informed; neglect to keep a record: He soon lost track of how much money he had spent. | | 40. | make tracks, Informal. to go or depart in a hurry: to make tracks for the store before closing time. | | 41. | off the track, departing from the objective or the subject at hand; astray: He can't tell a story without getting off the track. | | 42. | on the track of, in search or pursuit of; close upon: They are on the track of a solution to the problem. | | 43. | on the wrong or 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. | |
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