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تعريف to track في الإنجليزية الإنجليزية القاموس.: To monitor the movement of a person or object; 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; To observe the (measured) state of an object over time; The permanent way; the rails; Circular (never-ending) data storage unit on a side of magnetic or optical disk, divided into sectors; Sound stored on a record; A tract or area, as of land; To follow the tracks of
My uncle spent all day tracking the deer.; A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc; The entire lower surface of the foot; said of birds, etc; To discover the location of a person or object (usually in the form track down); The distance between two opposite wheels on a same axletree (also track width); The physical track on a record; In a school, a track is a group of children of the same age and ability who are taught together; To track someone or something means to follow their movements by means of a special device, such as a satellite or radar. Our radar began tracking the jets; If you track animals or people, you try to follow them by looking for the signs that they have left behind, for example the marks left by their feet. He thought he had better track this wolf and kill it; A track is one of the songs or pieces of music on a CD, record, or tape; Tracks are marks left in the ground by the feet of animals or people. The only evidence of pandas was their tracks in the snow; A track is a narrow road or path. We set off once more, over a rough mountain track. = path; A track is a piece of ground, often oval-shaped, that is used for races involving athletes, cars, bicycles, horses, or dogs called greyhounds. The two men turned to watch the horses going round the track. the athletics track; If you track someone or something, you investigate them, because you are interested in finding out more about them. If it's possible, track the rumour back to its origin; {v} to follow by marks left, to draw; {n} a beaten path, road, rut, mark left; an endless metal belt on which tracked vehicles move over the ground; 1) Area most used on lane, creating a path to pins; 2) area on a bowling ball where it rolls and picks up minute particles; the area of intersection of a track and a sector on a storage disk; One contiguous physical spiral area from inner diameter to outer diameter containing information (dual layer DVD discs have two physical tracks ) Or, the information contained within a single 360 ° rotation of the disc Or, one contiguous logical element of information, such as a single CD audio "song" or computer data region (one CD session contains from one up to 99 such logical tracks, each consisting of a pre-gap, user data, and a post-gap ); (n ) A concentric ring on a disk that passes under a single stationary disk head as the disk rotates; A strip of specified width and location running the length of the magnetic stripe on which data is encoded ANSI/ISO standards define three track locations for the magnetic stripe on credit/financial cards, called Track 1, 2 and 3; the tracks are 0 110" wide, with Track 1 closest to the card edge; Sound stored on a record (or the physical track on one); If you make tracks, you leave the place where you are, especially when you are in a hurry. We'd better make tracks soon, hadn't we?; observe or plot the moving path of something; "track a missile; A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or beast; trace; vestige; footprint; A part of the audio tape that has one channel of audio recorded onto it It is in parallel with the length of the tape On a standard stereo audio cassette there are four tracks, two for each direction; If someone covers their tracks, they hide or destroy evidence of their identity or their actions, because they want to keep them secret. He covered his tracks, burnt letters and diaries; Railway tracks are the rails that a train travels along. A woman fell on to the tracks; If you keep track of a situation or a person, you make sure that you have the newest and most accurate information about them all the time. With eleven thousand employees, it's very difficult to keep track of them all; Verb: To be controlled by or follow in some proportional relationship (as when a filter's cutoff frequency tracks the keyboard, moving up or down depending on what note is played) Noun: One of a number of independent memory areas in o sequencer By analogy with tape tracks, sequencer tracks are normally longitudinal with respect to time and play back in sync with other tracks; If you say that someone has the inside track, you mean that they have an advantage, for example special knowledge about something. Denver has the inside track among 10 sites being considered; a bar or bars of rolled steel making a track along which vehicles can roll; (computer science) one of the circular magnetic paths on a magnetic disk that serve as a guide for writing and reading data; Data on the disk media is accessed by combination of track and sector numbers Tracks form concentric rings on the disk; the standard IBM single-density disks have 77 tracks Each track consists of a fixed number of numbered sectors Tracks are numbered from zero to one less than the number of tracks on the disk; A series of positions recorded for a particular vehicle (ship, submarine, helo, etc) A track has its own characteristics such as colour, label and symbol frequency, and the symbol used to represent it when the symbol highlighter is in use; carry on the feet and deposit; "track mud into the house"; A sequence of sound on a compact disc - digital audio (CD-DA) disc With a Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) file, information can be separated into tracks, defined by the creator of the file MIDI file tracks can correspond to MIDI channels, or they can correspond to parts of a song (such as melody or chorus); a CD-DA track usually corresponds to a song See also compact disc - digital audio; any road or path affording passage especially a rough one; a line or route along which something travels or moves; "the hurricane demolished houses in its path"; "the track of an animal"; "the course of the river"; The record of the path of a particle traversing a detector; A road; a beaten path; The pitch; Course; way; as, the track of a comet; observe or plot the moving path of something; "track a missile"; 1) One audio recording made on a portion of the width of a multitrack tape 2) One set of control commands in a sequencer recorded in a similar manner to an audio track and often controlling one synthesizer over one MIDI channel 3) A term with the same meaning as the term Band Track (the part of a song without the lead vocal or without the lead and background vocals) 4) A section of the magnetic surface of a disc consisting of a circular band at a fixed distance from the center; To track students means to divide them into groups according to their ability. Students are already being tracked. + tracking track·ing Tracking assigns some students to college prep and others to vocational programs. see also backtrack, fast track, racetrack, sidetrack, soundtrack, title track; a course over which races are run; To monitor someones or somethings movement; If you are on the right track, you are acting or progressing in a way that is likely to result in success. If you are on the wrong track, you are acting or progressing in a way that is likely to result in failure. Guests are returning in increasing numbers -- a sure sign that we are on the right track The country was headed on the wrong track, economically; off the beaten track: see beaten; v , future tense of recording, to lay down a single take of a performance n , A single channel (a track) on a mixing board on to which a musical performance can be recorded; A piece of rubber snowmachine track with bolts stuck through it, which is used for slowing the dog teams see The Anatomy of a Dog Sled; The racing events of track and field; track and field in general; go after with the intent to catch; "The policeman chased the mugger down the alley"; "the dog chased the rabbit"; A single instrument line in a composition or song Also known as a part In computer based recording a track is usually either MIDI or audio A track can also be used to refer to the completed composition or song Back; The entire lower surface of the foot; -- said of birds, etc; a pair of parallel rails providing a runway for wheels; {f} follow a path; follow movements; travel across, get across; chase after; In MIDI, the term "track" designates a location where one records or plays back a musical message---usually a portion of the total arrangement To illustrate, one might record an oboe melody line on Track Two, then record a bowed bass line on Track Three When played, the sounds can be simultaneous Most MIDI software now accommodates 64 tracks of music, enough for a rich orchestral sound Important: Tracks are purely for convenience; channels are required [See also: CHANNEL ]; If you are on the track of someone or something, you are trying to find them, or find information about them. He was on the track of an escaped criminal = on the trail of; a distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc; "he played the first cut on the cd"; "the title track of the album"; on an audio CD, each separately indexed piece of music is referred to as a track On a CD-ROM, however, there is usually only one track If the CD-ROM is mixed mode, however, the CD-ROM will contain 1 track of computer data and sever other tracks of audio There can be up to 99 tracks on a CD [BACK]