Concept cluster: Graphics and sound > Tracking or tracing
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Something which automatically tracks something else (such as the volume level of music, or the position of a military target).
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The path over which one has already traveled.
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(figuratively, singular only) A well-populated area or well-trodden path; any busy area.
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(transitive) To trace or track carefully.
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(transitive) To trail over or about.
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To leave such a track
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(figuratively, in the plural) One in a series of clues leading to a person or place.
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(rare) conjectural
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The potentially recoverable traces of data left behind by any activity; the general case, independent of medium, of which a paper trail is (in its literal sense) a medium-specific case.
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A test required in order to acquire a driver's licence.
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(sports) A track having a soft springy rubber surface and lane markings, designed for exercising and running races.
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(video games) The ability to travel instantaneously between previously discovered locations in an open world.
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(computing) The audit trail left by a crashed program.
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A path used in hashing, whose direction is marked with certain symbols serving as clues.
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Between tracks (of a railway, album of music, etc.).
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Alternative spelling of jump cut [(film) A cinematographic edit in which a single continuous sequential shot of a subject is broken into two parts, with a piece of footage being removed in order to render the effect of jumping forward in time.]
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To monitor; to track or record; to understand or follow.
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Alternative form of k-line [(IRC) The line in an IRCd configuration file that records the hostname of a banned user]
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(transitive) To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
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(transitive) To travel (a distance) as shown in a logbook.
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to head for
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The art or process of tracking down a human being by observing clues in the environment.
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(paleontology) A site showing geological evidence of very large numbers of fossil tracks or trace fossils.
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To place milestones along (a road, etc.).
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A test of the stability of a vehicle, which determines the maximum speed it can have and still steer clear of an obstacle (such as a child or a large animal running in front of the car) without going out of control.
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(idiomatic) A written record, history, or collection of evidence.
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(transitive) To make a path in, or on (something), or for (someone).
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(hunting) A spot to which a straight run is made; hence, a straight run from point to point; a cross-country run.
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(advertising) To visit and inspect potential sites for billboard advertising.
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(transitive) To follow the contours, possibly creating a circuit.
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A driving test.
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An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.
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(figuratively) Any trail or trace that can be followed to find something or someone, such as the paper left behind in a paperchase.
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Alternative form of sheep track.
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A private investigator or private detective who specializes in finding people who have attempted to disappear.
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The work of a skip tracer; the attempt to locate an individual who has deliberately disappeared.
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Alternative form of skip tracer [A private investigator or private detective who specializes in finding people who have attempted to disappear.]
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(transitive, uncommon) To engage or partake in skip tracing.
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Alternative form of skip tracer [A private investigator or private detective who specializes in finding people who have attempted to disappear.]
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Alternative form of skip tracing [The work of a skip tracer; the attempt to locate an individual who has deliberately disappeared.]
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(transitive) To track an animal by following its spoor
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(transitive) To watch; to dog, or keep track of.
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A particular episode of trying to follow or contact someone.
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(obsolete) The track of a deer.
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(transitive) To follow and observe surreptitiously.
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Finishing tape, stretched across a track to mark the end of a race.
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(Scrabble) The act of keeping track of which letters have been played, usually by crossing them off a printed list.
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Abbreviation of track. [A mark left by something that has passed along.]
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An informal road or prominent path in an arid area.
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The act or state of tracking or investigating something.
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A mark left by something that has passed along.
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A process of determining the current and past locations (and other information) of a unique item or property.
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(idiomatic) The past performance of a person, organization, or product, viewed in its entirety and usually for the purpose of making a judgment.
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(Australia) To associate or go out with.
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One who is tracked.
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(US politics) A person employed to follow and monitor a political rival.
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A fragment of the track followed by a moving object, as constructed by an image recognition system.
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a track.
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The line along which something was tracked
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An ordered sequence of GPS coordinate measurements stored by a satellite navigation system.
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An organism that leaves tracks as it moves, especially one whose tracks can be found in fossils.
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The role or work of a trackman.
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(uncountable) Traces of material carried out of an area as a result of sticking to clothing, vehicles, etc.
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A site where trackways (footprints, especially fossilised) are found.
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A set of footprints left in soft ground by a human or animal, especially if fossilized.
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(obsolete) Track; trace.
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(obsolete) A track or trail; a way; a path; passage.
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(transitive) To follow behind (someone or something); to tail (someone or something).
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(transitive) To follow (someone) slowly, usually surreptitiously.
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To establish a trail for the first time.
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Someone who or something that trails.
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The beginning of a trail, often specifically a hiking trail.
adj
That trails.
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(obsolete) The act of trajecting; trajection.
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(linguistics, in a verbal phrase) A subject or object that moves (through space or time)
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Related to, or described by, a trajectory
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To establish a trajectory for
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That has a trajectory assigned
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(figuratively) A course of development, such as that of a war or career.
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A path along which a researcher moves to count and record observations or collect data.
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The act of following a path or route.
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(obsolete) A screen or partition.
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An outdoor trail for walking or jogging, furnished with wooden exercise stations to develop balance, strength and coordination.
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A track or pathway.
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Synonym of tracking shot
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The characteristic disturbance to subsoil beneath the track of an animal

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