Word Meanings - TRACK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. (more info)

Additional info about word: TRACK

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. (more info) Teutonic origin; cf.D.trek a drawing, trekken to draw, travel, march, 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TRACK)

• Derive
• Deduce
• trace
• follow
• track
• draw
• resolve
• Path
• Footpath
• pathway
• road
• course
• route
• method
• Route
• Way
• passage
• march
• path
• direction
• Step
• Advance
• pace
• space
• grade
• remove
• degree
• gradation
• progression
• trice
• walk
• gait
• proceeding
• action
• measure
• Trace
• Explore
• derive
• deduce
• thread
• investigate
• delineate
• pursue

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of TRACK)

• Retard
• hinder
• withhold
• withdraw
• recall
• depress
• degrade
• suppress
• oppose
• retreat
• decrease
• Misfit
• misconform
• mismeasure
• misdeal
• misapportion

Related words: (words related to TRACK)

• DELINEATE
  Delineated; portrayed.
• MARCHER
  One who marches.
• FOLLOWING EDGE
  See ABOVE
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• TRACKLAYER
  Any workman engaged in work involved in putting the track in place. -- Track"lay`ing, n.
• PROGRESSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to progression; tending to, or capable of, progress.
• RETREATFUL
  Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
• COURSED
  1. Hunted; as, a coursed hare. 2. Arranged in courses; as, coursed masonry.
• PROCEED
  To begin and carry on a legal process. Syn. -- To advance; go on; continue; progress; issue; arise; emanate. (more info) 1. To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to continue or renew motion begun; as, to proceed on a journey. If thou
• PROCEEDER
  One who proceeds.
• TRICENTENARY
  Including, or relating to, the interval of three hundred years; tercentenary. -- n.
• ACTION
  Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun. (more info) 1. A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of
• SPACE
  One of the intervals, or open places, between the lines of the staff. Absolute space, Euclidian space, etc. See under Absolute, Euclidian, etc. -- Space line , a thin piece of metal used by printers to open the lines of type to a regular distance
• RETREATMENT
  The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira. D'Urfey.
• TRACKWALKER
  A person employed to walk over and inspect a section of tracks.
• METHOD
  Classification; a mode or system of classifying natural objects according to certain common characteristics; as, the method of Theophrastus; the method of Ray; the Linnæan method. Syn. -- Order; system; rule; regularity; way; manner; mode; course;
• COURSE
  1. The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage. And when we had finished our course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais. Acts xxi. 7. 2. THe ground or path traversed; track; way. The same horse also run the round course at Newmarket.
• PROCEEDING
  The course of procedure in the prosecution of an action at law. Blackstone. Proceedings of a society, the published record of its action, or of things done at its meetings. Syn. -- Procedure; measure; step, See Transaction. (more info) 1. The act
• RESOLVENT
  Having power to resolve; causing solution; solvent.
• OPPOSELESS
  Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. "Your great opposeless wills." Shak.
• FRICATRICE
  A lewd woman; a harlot. B. Jonson.
• NOMARCH
  The chief magistrate of a nome or nomarchy.
• PHYSOGRADE
  Any siphonophore which has an air sac for a float, as the Physalia.
• LADY'S TRACES; LADIES' TRESSES; LADIES TRESSES
  A name given to several species of the orchidaceous genus Spiranthes, in which the white flowers are set in spirals about a slender axis and remotely resemble braided hair.
• FRATRICELLI
  The name which St. Francis of Assisi gave to his followers, early in the 13th century. A sect which seceded from the Franciscan Order, chiefly in Italy and Sicily, in 1294, repudiating the pope as an apostate, maintaining the duty of celibacy and
• IMPROVISATRICE
  See IMPROVVISATRICE
• REACTIONIST
  A reactionary. C. Kingsley.
• RETROGRADATION
  1. The act of retrograding, or moving backward. 2. The state of being retrograde; decline.
• RECOURSEFUL
  Having recurring flow and ebb; moving alternately. Drayton.
• SALTIGRADE
  Having feet or legs formed for leaping.
• POLEMARCH
  In Athens, originally, the military commanderin-chief; but, afterward, a civil magistrate who had jurisdiction in respect of strangers and sojourners. In other Grecian cities, a high military and civil officer.
• MADEFACTION; MADEFICATION
  The act of madefying, or making wet; the state of that which is made wet. Bacon.
• REDACTION
  The act of redacting; work produced by redacting; a digest.
• CHYLIFACTION
  The act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process.
• IMMEASURED
  Immeasurable. Spenser.