tracks
plural of track
tracks
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of track
• Starck, Strack
Source: Wiktionary
Track, n. Etym: [OF.trac track of horses, mules, trace of animals; of Teutonic origin; cf.D.trek a drawing, trekken to draw, travel, march, MHG. trechen, pret. trach. Cf. Trick.]
1. 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. Shak.
2. A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or beast; trace; vestige; footprint. Far from track of men. Milton.
3. (Zoöl.)
Definition: The entire lower surface of the foot;-said of birds, ect.
4. A road; a beaten path. Behold Torquatus the same track pursue. Dryden.
5. Course; way; as, the track of a comet.
6. A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, ect.
7. (Raolroad)
Definition: The permanent way; the rails.
8. Etym: [Perhaps a mistake for tract.]
Definition: A tract or area, as of land. [Obs.] "Small tracks of ground." Fuller. Track scale, a railway scale. See under Railway.
Track, v. t. [imp. & p. p. tracked; p. pr. & vb. n. tracking.]
Definition: 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. Macaulay.
2. (Naut.)
Definition: To draw along continuously, as a vessel, by a line, men or animals on shore being the motive power; to tow.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
2 April 2025
(adjective) secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed; “covert actions by the CIA”; “covert funding for the rebels”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
