Entry Word: track

Function: noun

Meaning: 1 a mark or series of marks left on a surface by something that has passed along it <a muddy track across the kitchen floor>

Synonyms imprint, trace, trail

Related Words footprint, footstep, path, print, step, tread; artifact, evidence, leavings, mark, relic, remainder, remain(s), reminder, remnant, residual, residue, sign, spoor, telltale, token, vestige; clue, cue, hint, indication, inkling, intimation, suggestion; scent, shadow, whiff

2 a rough course or way formed by or as if by repeated footsteps <there was still a faint track through the underbrush that indicated where the path used to be> — see trail 1
3 the direction along which something or someone moves <I saw the track of the thiefʼs eyes as he watched me put the money in my purse> — see path 1