tracking down
追踪调查,追查,追踪,跟踪调查
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Definitions
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- : a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- : a wheel rut.
- : evidence, as a mark or a series of marks, that something has passed.
- : Usually tracks . footprints or other marks left by an animal, person, or vehicle: a lion's tracks; car tracks.
- : a path made or beaten by or as if by the feet of people or animals; trail: to follow the track of a murderer.
- : a line of travel or motion: the track of a bird.
- : a course or route followed.
- : a course of action, conduct, or procedure: on the right track to solve the problem.
- : a path or course made or laid out for some particular purpose.
- : a series or sequence of events or ideas.
- : something associated with making a track, as the wheel span of a vehicle or the tread of a tire.
- : a caterpillar tread.
- : Sports. a course laid out for running or racing.the group of sports performed on such a course, as running or hurdling, as distinguished from field events.both track and field events as a whole.
- : Recording. a band of recorded sound laid along the length of a magnetic tape.band. an individual song or segment of a recording: a title track.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.
- : Automotive. the distance between the centers of the treads of either the front or rear wheels of a vehicle.
- : 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.
- : tracks, Slang. needle marks on the arm, leg, or body of a drug user caused by habitual injections.
- : sound track.
- : a metal strip or rail along which something, as lighting or a curtain, can be mounted or moved.
- : 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.
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- : to follow or pursue the track, traces, or footprints of.
- : to follow.
- : to make one's way through; traverse.
- : to leave footprints on: to track the floor with muddy shoes.
- : to make a trail of footprints with: The dog tracked mud all over the living room rug.
- : to observe or monitor the course or path of, as by radar or radio signals.
- : to observe or follow the course of progress of; keep track of.
- : to furnish with a track or tracks, as for railroad trains.
- : Railroads. to have between wheels, runners, rails, etc.
- 1
- : to follow or pursue a track or trail.
- : to run in the same track, as the wheels of a vehicle.
- : to be in alignment, as one gearwheel with another.
- : to have a specified span between wheels or runners: The car's wheels track about five feet.
- : Movies, Television. dolly.
- : Recording. to follow the undulations in the grooves of a phonograph record.
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- : track down, to pursue until caught or captured; follow: to track down a killer.
Phrases
- track down
- track record
- cover one's tracks
- drop in one's tracks
- fast track
- follow in someone's footsteps (tracks)
- inside track
- jump the track
- keep (lose) track
- make tracks
- off the beaten track
- off the track
- one-track mind
- on the right tack (track)
- right side of the tracks
- stop cold (in one's tracks)
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
She was accepted at Spelman College, got back on track, and ended up enrolling at Cal Poly Pomona.
Potts, who had been training for an Ironman triathlon, remembers keeping track of the time on her heart monitor watch.
Clicks, ecommerce transactions, or goals are the way businesses keep track of them.
The digital yuan is on track to be the world’s first sovereign digital currency and is currently in pilot mode with four state-owned commercial banks.
San Diego Unified’s decision-making and the metrics the district tracks can have a huge ripple effect.
If you answered nine or more, you may have won a SONY Betamax and an eight-track operating system.
Workers built a temporary rail track through the city to move the statue in a process that took three days.
I was there to track down the family of one of the most notorious defectors in Cuban history.
It looks like Amazon is on track to get additional Pentagon contracts as well.
Its inclusion in Record of the Year is on track with the recent trend of all nominees being chart-toppers.
Suddenly, however, he became aware of a small black spot far ahead in the very middle of the unencumbered track.
No trail was so obtuse, no thicket so dense that members of that regiment would not track them to their lair.
We are so many around here that you'll have to get paper and pencil and mark us down to keep track of how many.
The print of steel-rimmed hoofs showed in the soft loam as plainly as a moccasin-track in virgin snow.
Track of the count may be kept by placing a mark for each leukocyte in its appropriate column, ruled upon paper.