Synonyms of the word track


TRACKARTEFACT - ARTIFACT - BAR - BELT - CARTROAD - CHANNEL - CHASE - COURSE - COVER - CREATE - CROSS - CUT - DOG - EVIDENCE - EXCERPT - EXCERPTION - EXTRACT - FOLLOW - GROOVE - GROUNDS - INTRODUCE - ITINERARY - LEAD - LINE - MAKE - OBSERVE - PASS - PATH - PURSUE - RACECOURSE - RACETRACK - RACEWAY - RAIL - RAILS - ROAD - ROUTE - RUNNING - SELECTION - TAG - TAIL - TRAIL - TRAVERSE

track

  • n. A mark left by something that has passed along.
  • n. A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or animal.
  • n. The entire lower surface of the foot; said of birds, etc.
  • n. A road or other similar beaten path.
  • n. Physical course; way.
  • n. A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc.
  • n. The direction and progress of someone or something; path.
  • n. (railways) The way or rails along which a train moves.
  • n. A tract or area, such as of land.
  • n. Awareness of something, especially when arising from close monitoring.
  • n. (automotive) The distance between two opposite wheels on a same axletree (also track width).
  • n. (automotive) Short for caterpillar track.
  • n. (cricket) The pitch.
  • n. Sound stored on a record.
  • n. The physical track on a record.
  • n. (music) A song or other relatively short piece of music, on a record, separated from others by a short…
  • n. A circular (never-ending) data storage unit on a side of magnetic or optical disk, divided into sectors.
  • n. (uncountable, sports) The racing events of track and field; track and field in general.
  • n. A session talk on a conference.
  • v. To continue observing over time.
  • v. (transitive) To follow the tracks of.
  • v. (transitive or intransitive) To create a musical recording (a track).

artefact

  • n. (British spelling, Australian spelling) alternative form of artifact.

artifact

  • n. An object made or shaped by human hand.
  • n. (archaeology) An object, such as a tool, weapon or ornament, of archaeological or historical interest,…
  • n. Something viewed as a product of human conception or agency rather than an inherent element.
  • n. A structure or finding in an experiment or investigation that is not a true feature of the object under…
  • n. (biology) A structure or appearance in protoplasm due to death, method of preparation of specimens, or…
  • n. An object made or shaped by some agent or intelligence, not necessarily of direct human origin.
  • n. (computing) A perceptible distortion that appears in a digital image, audio or video file as a result…

bar

  • n. A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
  • n. (countable, uncountable, metallurgy) A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal…
  • n. A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
  • n. A broad shaft, or band, or stripe.
  • n. A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar…
  • n. (typography) Various lines used as punctuation or diacritics, such as the pipe ⟨|⟩, fraction bar (as in…
  • n. (mathematics) The sign indicating that the characteristic of a logarithm is negative, conventionally placed…
  • n. A business licensed to sell alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves;…
  • n. The counter of such a premises.
  • n. A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.
  • n. (by extension, In combinations such as coffee bar, juice bar etc.) A premises or counter serving any type…
  • n. An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises.
  • n. An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
  • n. Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
  • n. (programming, whimsical, derived from fubar) A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity,…
  • n. (Britain, law) The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants…
  • n. (law, "the Bar", "the bar") The bar exam, the legal licensing exam.
  • n. (law, metonymically, "the Bar", "the bar") A collective term for lawyers or the legal profession; specifically…
  • n. (telecommunications) A bar-shaped symbol that denotes levels of reception, or reception itself.
  • n. (music) A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal…
  • n. (music) One of those musical sections.
  • n. (sports) A horizontal pole that must be crossed in high jump and pole vault.
  • n. (soccer) The crossbar.
  • n. (backgammon) The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones…
  • n. An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act.
  • n. A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water.
  • n. (geography, nautical, hydrology) A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance, especially…
  • n. (heraldry) One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a fess.
  • n. An informal unit of measure of signal strength for a wireless device such as a cell phone.
  • n. A city gate, in some British place names.
  • n. (mining) A drilling or tamping rod.
  • n. (mining) A vein or dike crossing a lode.
  • n. (architecture) A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
  • n. (farriery) The part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel…
  • n. (farriery, in the plural) The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which…
  • v. (transitive) To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).
  • v. (transitive) To prohibit.
  • v. (transitive) To lock or bolt with a bar.
  • v. to imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.
  • prep. Except, with the exception of.
  • prep. (horse racing) Denotes the minimum odds offered on other horses not mentioned by name.
  • n. A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, approximately equal to atmospheric pressure at sea…

belt

  • n. A band worn around the waist to hold clothing to one's body (usually pants), hold weapons (such as a gun…
  • n. A band used as a restraint for safety purposes, such as a seat belt.
  • n. A band that is used in a machine to help transfer motion or power.
  • n. Anything that resembles a belt, or that encircles or crosses like a belt; a strip or stripe.
  • n. A trophy in the shape of a belt, generally awarded for martial arts.
  • n. (astronomy) A collection of rocky-constituted bodies (such as asteroids) which orbit a star.
  • n. (astronomy) One of certain girdles or zones on the surface of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed…
  • n. A powerful blow, often made with a fist or heavy object.
  • n. A quick drink of liquor.
  • n. (usually capitalized) A geographical region known for a particular product, feature or demographic (Corn…
  • n. (baseball) The part of the strike zone at the height of the batter's waist.
  • n. (weaponry) device that holds and feeds cartridges into a belt-fed weapon.
  • v. (transitive) To encircle.
  • v. (transitive) To fasten a belt.
  • v. (transitive) To hit with a belt.
  • v. (transitive) and intransitive To scream or sing in a loud manner.
  • v. (transitive) To drink quickly, often in gulps.
  • v. (transitive, slang) To hit someone or something.
  • v. (transitive, baseball) To hit a pitched ball a long distance, usually for a home run.
  • v. (intransitive) To move very fast.

cartroad

  • n. (historical) A road for the driving of carts.

channel

  • n. The physical confine of a river or slough, consisting of a bed and banks.
  • n. The natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water.
  • n. The navigable part of a river.
  • n. A narrow body of water between two land masses.
  • n. That through which anything passes; means of conveying or transmitting.
  • n. A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
  • n. (nautical, in the plural) Flat ledges of heavy plank bolted edgewise to the outside of a vessel, to increase…
  • n. (electronics) A connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit.
  • n. (electronics) The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.
  • n. (communication) The part that connects a data source to a data sink.
  • n. (communication) A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals, usually distinguished from…
  • n. (communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via physical separation, such as by multipair…
  • n. (communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via spectral or protocol separation, such…
  • n. (broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies, usually in conjunction with a predetermined…
  • n. (broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television.
  • n. (storage) The portion of a storage medium, such as a track or a band, that is accessible to a given reading…
  • n. (technic) The way in a turbine pump where the pressure is built up.
  • n. (business, marketing) A distribution channel.
  • n. (Internet) A particular area for conversations on an IRC network, analogous to a chatroom and often dedicated…
  • n. (Internet) An obsolete means of delivering up-to-date Internet content.
  • n. A psychic or medium who temporarily takes on the personality of somebody else.
  • v. To direct the flow of something.
  • v. To assume the personality of another person, typically a historic figure, in a theatrical or paranormal…
  • n. (nautical) The wale of a sailing ship which projects beyond the gunwale and to which the shrouds attach…

chase

  • n. The act of one who chases another; a pursuit.
  • n. A hunt.
  • n. (uncountable) A children's game where one player chases another.
  • n. (Britain) A large country estate where game may be shot or hunted.
  • n. Anything being chased, especially a vessel in time of war.
  • n. (nautical) Any of the guns that fire directly ahead or astern; either a bow chase or stern chase.
  • n. (real tennis) The occurrence of a second bounce by the ball in certain areas of the court, giving the…
  • n. (real tennis) A division of the floor of a gallery, marked by a figure or otherwise; the spot where a…
  • n. (cycling) One or more riders who are ahead of the peloton and trying to join the race or stage leaders.
  • v. (transitive) To pursue, to follow at speed.
  • v. (transitive) To hunt.
  • v. (intransitive) To give chase; to hunt.
  • v. (transitive, nautical) To pursue a vessel in order to destroy, capture or interrogate her.
  • v. (transitive) To dilute alcohol.
  • v. (transitive, cricket) To attempt to win by scoring the required number of runs in the final innings.
  • v. (transitive, baseball) To swing at a pitch outside of the strike zone, typically an outside pitch.
  • v. (transitive, baseball) To produce enough offense to cause the pitcher to be removed.
  • n. (printing) A rectangular steel or iron frame into which pages or columns of type are locked for printing…
  • n. A groove cut in an object; a slot: the chase for the quarrel on a crossbow.
  • n. (architecture) A trench or channel or other encasement structure for encasing (archaically spelled enchasing)…
  • n. The part of a gun in front of the trunnions.
  • n. The cavity of a mold.
  • n. (shipbuilding) A kind of joint by which an overlap joint is changed to a flush joint by means of a gradually…
  • v. (transitive) To groove; indent.
  • v. (transitive) To place piping or wiring in a groove encased within a wall or floor, or in a hidden space…
  • v. (transitive) To cut (the thread of a screw).
  • v. (transitive) To decorate (metal) by engraving or embossing.

course

  • n. A sequence of events.
  • n. A path that something or someone moves along.
  • n. (nautical) The lowest square sail in a fully rigged mast, often named according to the mast.
  • n. (in the plural, courses, obsolete, euphemistic) Menses.
  • n. A row or file of objects.
  • n. (music) A string on a lute.
  • n. (music) A pair of strings played together in some musical instruments, like the vihuela.
  • v. To run or flow (especially of liquids and more particularly blood).
  • v. To run through or over.
  • v. To pursue by tracking or estimating the course taken by one's prey; to follow or chase after.
  • v. To cause to chase after or pursue game.
  • adv. (colloquial) Alternative form of of course.

cover

  • n. A lid.
  • n. A hiding from view.
  • n. A front and back of a book, magazine, CD package, etc.
  • n. A top sheet of a bed.
  • n. A cover charge.
  • n. A setting at a restaurant table or formal dinner.
  • n. (music) A rerecording of a previously recorded song; a cover version; a cover song.
  • n. (cricket) A fielding position on the off side, between point and mid off, about 30° forward of square;…
  • n. (topology) A set (more often known as a family) of sets, whose union contains the given set.
  • n. (philately) An envelope complete with stamps and postmarks etc.
  • n. (military) A solid object, including terrain, that provides protection from enemy fire.
  • n. (law) In commercial law, a buyer’s purchase on the open market of goods similar or identical to the goods…
  • n. (insurance) An insurance contract; coverage by an insurance contract.
  • n. (espionage) A persona maintained by a spy or undercover operative, cover story.
  • n. The portion of a slate, tile, or shingle that is hidden by the overlap of the course above.
  • n. In a steam engine, the lap of a slide valve.
  • adj. Of or pertaining to the front cover of a book or magazine.
  • adj. (music) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of cover versions.
  • v. (transitive) To place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
  • v. (transitive) To be over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
  • v. (transitive) To be upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
  • v. (transitive) To set upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
  • v. (transitive) To invest (oneself with something); to bring upon (oneself).
  • v. (of a publication) To discuss thoroughly; to provide coverage of.
  • v. To deal with.
  • v. To be enough money for.
  • v. (intransitive) To act as a replacement.
  • v. (transitive) To have as an assignment or responsibility.
  • v. (music) To make a cover version of (a song that was originally recorded by another artist).
  • v. (military, law enforcement) To protect using an aimed firearm and the threat of firing; or to protect…
  • v. To provide insurance coverage for.
  • v. To copulate with (said of certain male animals such as dogs and horses).
  • v. (chess, transitive) To protect or control (a piece or square).
  • v. To extend over a given period of time or range, to occupy, to stretch over a given area.

create

  • v. (transitive) To bring into existence.
  • v. (transitive) To design, invest with a new form, shape, etc.
  • v. (intransitive) To be creative, imaginative.
  • v. (transitive) To cause, bring a (non-object) about by action.
  • v. (transitive) To confer a title of nobility, not by descent, but by giving a title either initiated or…
  • v. (transitive) To confer a cardinalate, which can not be inherited, but most often bears a pre‐existent…
  • v. (intransitive, colloquial) To make a fuss, complain; to shout.
  • adj. (archaic) Created, resulting from creation.

cross

  • n. A geometrical figure consisting of two straight lines or bars intersecting each other such that at least…
  • n. (heraldry) Any geometric figure having this or a similar shape, such as a cross of Lorraine or a Maltese…
  • n. A wooden post with a perpendicular beam attached and used (especially in the Roman Empire) to execute…
  • n. (usually with the) The cross on which Christ was crucified.
  • n. (Christianity) A hand gesture made in imitation of the shape of the Cross.
  • n. (Christianity) A modified representation of the crucifixion stake, worn as jewellery or displayed as a…
  • n. (figurative, from Christ's bearing of the cross) A difficult situation that must be endured.
  • n. The act of going across; the act of passing from one side to the other.
  • n. (biology) An animal or plant produced by crossbreeding or cross-fertilization.
  • n. (by extension) A hybrid of any kind.
  • n. (boxing) A hook thrown over the opponent's punch.
  • n. (soccer) A pass in which the ball travels from by one touchline across the pitch.
  • n. A place where roads intersect and lead off in four directions; a crossroad (common in UK and Irish place…
  • n. A monument that marks such a place. (Also common in UK or Irish place names such as Charing Cross).
  • n. (obsolete) A coin stamped with the figure of a cross, or that side of such a piece on which the cross…
  • n. (obsolete, Ireland) Church lands.
  • n. A line drawn across or through another line.
  • n. (surveying) An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.
  • n. A pipe-fitting with four branches whose axes usually form a right angle.
  • n. (Rubik's Cube) Four edge cubies of one side that are in their right places, forming the shape of a cross.
  • adj. Transverse; lying across the main direction.
  • adj. (archaic) Opposite, opposed to.
  • adj. (now rare) Opposing, adverse; being contrary to what one would hope or wish for.
  • adj. Bad-tempered, angry, annoyed.
  • adj. Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged.
  • prep. (archaic) across.
  • prep. cross product of the previous vector and the following vector.
  • v. To make or form a cross.
  • v. To move relatively.
  • v. (social) To oppose.
  • v. (biology) To cross-fertilize or crossbreed.
  • v. To stamp or mark a cheque in such a way as to prevent it being cashed, thus requiring it to be deposited…

cut

  • adj. (participial adjective) Having been cut.
  • adj. Reduced.
  • adj. Omitted from a literary or musical work.
  • adj. (of a gem) Carved into a shape; not raw.
  • adj. (cricket, of a shot) Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
  • adj. (bodybuilding) Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among…
  • adj. (informal) Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
  • adj. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Emotionally hurt.
  • adj. Eliminated from consideration during a recruitment drive.
  • adj. Removed from a team roster.
  • adj. (New Zealand) Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.
  • n. An opening resulting from cutting.
  • n. The act of cutting.
  • n. The result of cutting.
  • n. A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
  • n. (specifically) An artificial navigation as distingished from a navigable river.
  • n. A share or portion.
  • n. (cricket) A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
  • n. (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the…
  • n. (sports) In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also,…
  • n. (golf) In a strokeplay competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained…
  • n. (theater) A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play.
  • n. (film) A particular version or edit of a film.
  • n. The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
  • n. The manner or style a garment etc. is fashioned in.
  • n. A slab, especially of meat.
  • n. (fencing) An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
  • n. A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
  • n. A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio…
  • n. (archaeology) A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits…
  • n. A haircut.
  • n. (graph theory) The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
  • n. A string of railway cars coupled together.
  • n. An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
  • n. (obsolete) A common workhorse; a gelding.
  • n. (slang, dated) The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.
  • n. A skein of yarn.
  • v. (heading, transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
  • v. (intransitive) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
  • v. (transitive, heading, social) To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
  • v. (intransitive, film, audio, usually as imperative) To cease recording activities.
  • v. (transitive, film) To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
  • v. (transitive, computing) To remove and place in memory for later use.
  • v. (intransitive) To enter a queue in the wrong place.
  • v. (intransitive) To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
  • v. (transitive, cricket) To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball…
  • v. (transitive, cricket) To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
  • v. (intransitive) To change direction suddenly.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To divide a pack of playing cards into two.
  • v. (transitive, slang) To write.
  • v. (transitive, slang) To dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
  • v. (transitive) To exhibit (a quality).
  • v. (transitive) To stop or disengage.
  • v. (sports) To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball,…

dog

  • n. A mammal, Canis lupus familiaris, that has been domesticated for thousands of years, of highly variable…
  • n. A male dog, wolf or fox, as opposed to a bitch (often attributive).
  • n. (slang, derogatory) A dull, unattractive girl or woman.
  • n. (slang) A man (derived from definition 2).
  • n. (slang, derogatory) A coward.
  • n. (derogatory) Someone who is morally reprehensible.
  • n. (slang) A sexually aggressive man (cf. horny).
  • n. Any of various mechanical devices for holding, gripping, or fastening something, particularly with a tooth-like…
  • n. A click or pallet adapted to engage the teeth of a ratchet-wheel, to restrain the back action; a click…
  • n. A metal support for logs in a fireplace.
  • n. A hot dog.
  • n. (poker slang) Underdog.
  • n. (slang, almost always in the plural) Foot.
  • v. (transitive) To pursue with the intent to catch.
  • v. (transitive) To follow in an annoying or harassing way.
  • v. (transitive, nautical) To fasten a hatch securely.
  • v. (intransitive, emerging usage in Britain) To watch, or participate, in sexual activity in a public place.
  • v. (intransitive, transitive) To intentionally restrict one's productivity as employee; to work at the slowest…

evidence

  • n. Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
  • n. (law) Anything admitted by a court to prove or disprove alleged matters of fact in a trial.
  • n. One who bears witness.
  • v. (transitive) To provide evidence for, or suggest the truth of.

excerpt

  • n. a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work such as a news article, a film, a literary composition…
  • v. To select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work.

excerption

  • n. The act of excerpting or selecting.
  • n. That which is selected or gleaned; an extract.

extract

  • n. Something that is extracted or drawn out.
  • n. A portion of a book or document, incorporated distinctly in another work; a citation; a quotation.
  • n. A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential…
  • n. Any substance extracted is such a way, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained.
  • n. A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant…
  • n. (obsolete) A peculiar principle (fundamental essence) once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all…
  • n. Ancestry; descent.
  • n. A draft or copy of writing; a certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgment therein,…
  • v. (transitive) To draw out; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction,…
  • v. (transitive) To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare…
  • v. (transitive) To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book.
  • v. (transitive) To select parts of a whole.
  • v. (transitive, arithmetic) To determine (a root of a number).

follow

  • v. (transitive) To go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction.
  • v. (transitive) To go or come after in a sequence.
  • v. (transitive) To carry out (orders, instructions, etc.).
  • v. (transitive) To live one's life according to (religion, teachings, etc).
  • v. (transitive) To understand, to pay attention to.
  • v. (transitive) To watch, to keep track of (reports of) some event or person.
  • v. (transitive) To be a logical consequence of.
  • v. (transitive) To walk in, as a road or course; to attend upon closely, as a profession or calling.
  • n. (sometimes attributive) In billiards and similar games, a stroke causing a ball to follow another ball…
  • n. (Internet) The act of following another user's online activity.

groove

  • n. A long, narrow channel or depression; e.g., such a slot cut into a hard material to provide a location…
  • n. A fixed routine.
  • n. The middle of the strike zone in baseball where a pitch is most easily hit.
  • n. A pronounced, enjoyable rhythm.
  • n. (mining) A shaft or excavation.
  • v. To cut a groove or channel in; to form into channels or grooves; to furrow.
  • v. To create, dance to, or enjoy rhythmic music.

grounds

  • n. plural of ground.
  • n. (law) Basis or justification for something, as in "grounds for divorce.".
  • n. The collective land areas that compose a larger area, as in the castle grounds.
  • n. The sediment at the bottom of a liquid, or from which a liquid has been filtered (as in coffee grounds).

introduce

  • v. (transitive, of people) To cause (someone) to be acquainted (with someone else).
  • v. (transitive) To make (something or someone) known by formal announcement or recommendation.
  • v. (transitive) To add (something) to a system, a mixture, or a container.
  • v. (transitive) To bring (something) into practice.

itinerary

  • n. A route or proposed route of a journey.
  • n. An account or record of a journey.
  • n. A guidebook for travellers.
  • adj. itinerant; travelling from place to place; done on a journey.

lead

  • n. (uncountable) A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnishe…
  • n. (countable) A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at seaor (dated) to estimate…
  • n. A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
  • n. (uncountable, typography) Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.
  • n. Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
  • n. (plural leads) A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
  • n. (countable) A thin cylinder of black lead or plumbago (graphite) used in pencils.
  • n. (slang) Bullets; ammunition.
  • v. (transitive) To cover, fill, or affect with lead.
  • v. (transitive, printing, historical) To place leads between the lines of.
  • v. (heading, transitive) To guide or conduct.
  • v. (intransitive) To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing…
  • v. (heading) To begin, to be ahead.
  • v. (transitive) To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice;…
  • v. (intransitive) To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place.
  • v. To produce (with to).
  • v. Misspelling of led.
  • n. (uncountable) The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course.
  • n. (uncountable) Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead…
  • n. (countable) An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.
  • n. (baseball) The situation where a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.
  • n. (uncountable, card games, dominoes) The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit,…
  • n. (acting) The main role in a play or film; the lead role.
  • n. (acting) The actor who plays the main role; lead actor.
  • n. (countable) A channel of open water in an ice field.
  • n. (countable, mining) A lode.
  • n. (nautical) The course of a rope from end to end.
  • n. A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash.
  • n. In a steam engine, the width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release…
  • n. Charging lead.
  • n. (civil engineering) The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
  • n. (horology) The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
  • n. Hypothesis that has not been pursued.
  • n. Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details…
  • n. (marketing) Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer.
  • n. Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject that allows him or her to discover more…
  • n. (curling) The player who throws the first two rocks for a team.
  • n. (newspapers) A teaser; a lead-in; the start of a newspaper column, telling who, what, when, where, why…
  • n. An important news story that appears on the front page of a newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast.
  • n. (engineering) The axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times…
  • n. (music) In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the melody, usually the second tenor.
  • n. (music) The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts.
  • n. (music) A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance…
  • n. (engineering) The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound…
  • n. (electrical) The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter…
  • n. (electrical) The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive…
  • adj. (not comparable) Foremost.
  • adj. (music) main, principal.
  • v. Misspelling of led.

line

  • n. A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen;…
  • n. A rope, cord, string, or thread, of any thickness.
  • n. A hose or pipe, of any size.
  • n. Direction, path.
  • n. The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points:…
  • n. A letter, a written form of communication.
  • n. A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement…
  • n. (military) A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied…
  • n. The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.
  • n. A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure.
  • n. (obsolete) A measuring line or cord.
  • n. That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place…
  • n. A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.
  • n. Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body).
  • n. A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often…
  • n. (military) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry,…
  • n. A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.
  • n. A small amount of text. Specifically.
  • n. Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade,…
  • n. The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political…
  • n. The products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself.
  • n. (stock exchange) A number of shares taken by a jobber.
  • n. A measure of length.
  • n. (historical) A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.
  • n. (baseball, slang, 1800s, with "the") The batter’s box.
  • n. (fencing, ‘line of engagement’) The position in which the fencers hold their swords.
  • n. (engineering) Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with…
  • n. A small portion or serving (of a powdery illegal drug).
  • n. (obsolete) Instruction; doctrine.
  • n. (genetics) Population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup.
  • n. (perfusion line) a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way stopcock…
  • n. (ice hockey) A group of forwards that play together.
  • v. (transitive) To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.
  • v. (transitive) To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding;…
  • v. To form a line along.
  • v. (transitive) To mark with a line or lines, to cover with lines.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray.
  • v. (transitive) To read or repeat line by line.
  • v. (intransitive, ‘line up’) To form or enter into a line.
  • v. (intransitive, baseball) To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare…
  • v. To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
  • n. (obsolete) Flax; linen, particularly the longer fiber of flax.
  • v. (transitive) To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.
  • v. To reinforce (the back of a book) with glue and glued scrap material such as fabric or paper.
  • v. (transitive) To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.
  • v. (transitive, now rare, of a dog) to copulate with, to impregnate.

make

  • v. (transitive, heading) To create.
  • v. (intransitive, now mostly colloquial) To behave, to act.
  • v. (intransitive) To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against.
  • v. To constitute.
  • v. (intransitive, construed with of, typically interrogative) To interpret.
  • v. (transitive, usually stressed) To bring into success.
  • v. (transitive, second object is an adjective or participle) To cause to be.
  • v. To cause to appear to be; to represent as.
  • v. (transitive, second object is a verb) To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something).
  • v. (transitive, second object is a verb, can be stressed for emphasis or clarity) To force to do.
  • v. (transitive, of a fact) To indicate or suggest to be.
  • v. (transitive, of a bed) To cover neatly with bedclothes.
  • v. (transitive, US slang) To recognise, identify.
  • v. (transitive, colloquial) To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.
  • v. (intransitive, colloquial) To proceed (in a direction).
  • v. (transitive) To cover (a given distance) by travelling.
  • v. (transitive) To move at (a speed).
  • v. To appoint; to name.
  • v. (transitive, slang) To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).
  • v. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) To defecate or urinate.
  • v. (transitive) To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status).
  • v. (transitive) To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.
  • v. To enact; to establish.
  • v. To develop into; to prove to be.
  • v. To form or formulate in the mind.
  • v. (obsolete) To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; often in…
  • v. (obsolete) To increase; to augment; to accrue.
  • v. (obsolete) To be engaged or concerned in.
  • v. (now archaic) To cause to be (in a specified place), used after a subjective what.
  • v. (transitive, euphemistic) To take the virginity of.
  • n. (often of a car) Brand or kind; often paired with model.
  • n. How a thing is made; construction.
  • n. Origin of a manufactured article; manufacture.
  • n. (uncountable) Quantity produced, especially of materials.
  • n. (dated) The act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing.
  • n. A person's character or disposition.
  • n. (bridge) The declaration of the trump for a hand.
  • n. (physics) The closing of an electrical circuit.
  • n. (computing) A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of…
  • n. (slang) Recognition or identification, especially from police records or evidence.
  • n. (slang, usually in phrase "easy make") Past or future target of seduction (usually female).
  • n. (slang, military) A promotion.
  • n. A home-made project.
  • n. (basketball) A made basket.
  • n. (dialectal) Mate; a spouse or companion.
  • n. (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, now rare) A halfpenny.

observe

  • v. (transitive) To notice or view, especially carefully or with attention to detail.
  • v. (transitive) To follow or obey the custom, practice, or rules (especially of a religion).
  • v. (intransitive) To comment on something; to make an observation.

pass

  • v. (heading) Physical movement.
  • v. (heading) To change in state or status, to advance.
  • v. (heading) To move through time.
  • v. (heading) To be accepted.
  • v. (intransitive) In any game, to decline to play in one's turn.
  • v. (heading) To do or be better.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To take heed.
  • n. An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise…
  • n. A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
  • n. A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
  • n. A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
  • n. An attempt.
  • n. (fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
  • n. (figuratively) A thrust; a sally of wit.
  • n. A sexual advance.
  • n. (sports) The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
  • n. (rail transport) A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into…
  • n. Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
  • n. A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit…
  • n. (baseball) An intentional walk.
  • n. The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
  • n. (obsolete) Estimation; character.
  • n. (obsolete, Chaucer) A part, a division. Compare passus.
  • n. (cooking) The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the…
  • n. An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
  • n. (computing) A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
  • n. (computing, slang) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).

path

  • n. A trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians.
  • n. A course taken.
  • n. (paganism) A Pagan tradition, for example witchcraft, Wicca, druidism, Heathenry.
  • n. A metaphorical course.
  • n. A method or direction of proceeding.
  • n. (computing) A human-readable specification for a location within a hierarchical or tree-like structure,…
  • n. (graph theory) A sequence of vertices from one vertex to another using the arcs (edges). A path does not…
  • v. (transitive) To make a path in, or on (something), or for (someone).

pursue

  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To follow with harmful intent; to try to harm, to persecute, torment.
  • v. (transitive) To follow urgently, originally with intent to capture or harm; to chase.
  • v. (transitive) To follow, travel down (a particular way, course of action etc.).
  • v. (transitive) To aim for, go after (a specified objective, situation etc.).
  • v. (transitive) To participate in (an activity, business etc.); to practise, follow (a profession).

racecourse

  • n. A course over which races are run.
  • n. (Britain) A racetrack where horse races are run.

racetrack

  • n. A course over which any type of races are run.
  • n. A characteristic circular erosion pattern in deposition processes.

raceway

  • n. A place where races are held. A racetrack.
  • n. An easily-accessible conduit or tray for organizing runs of data or power cabling.
  • n. The canal for the current that drives a water wheel.

rail

  • n. A horizontal bar extending between supports and used for support or as a barrier; a railing.
  • n. The metal bar that makes the track for a railroad.
  • n. A railroad; a railway, as a means of transportation.
  • n. A horizontal piece of wood that serves to separate sections of a door or window.
  • n. (surfing) One of the lengthwise edges of a surfboard.
  • v. (intransitive) To travel by railway.
  • v. (transitive) To enclose with rails or a railing.
  • v. (transitive) To range in a line.
  • n. Any of several birds in the family Rallidae.
  • v. To complain violently (against, about).
  • n. (obsolete) An item of clothing; a cloak or other garment; a dress.
  • n. (obsolete) Specifically, a woman's headscarf or neckerchief.
  • v. (obsolete) To gush, flow (of liquid).

rails

  • n. plural of rail.

road

  • n. (obsolete) The act of riding on horseback.
  • n. (obsolete) A hostile ride against a particular area; a raid.
  • n. (nautical, often in the plural) A partly sheltered area of water near a shore in which vessels may ride…
  • n. A way used for travelling between places, originally one wide enough to allow foot passengers and horses…
  • n. (figuratively) A path chosen in life or career.
  • n. An underground tunnel in a mine.
  • n. (US, rail transport) A railway or (Britain, rail transport) a single railway track.
  • n. (obsolete) A journey, or stage of a journey.
  • n. A way or route.
  • adj. (US, Canada, sports, chiefly attributive) At the venue of the opposing team or competitor; on the road.

route

  • n. A course or way which is traveled or passed.
  • n. A regular itinerary of stops, or the path followed between these stops, such as for delivery or passenger…
  • n. A road or path; often specifically a highway.
  • n. (figuratively) One of multiple methods or approaches to doing something.
  • n. (historical) The major provinces of imperial China from the Later Jin to the Song, corresponding to the…
  • v. To direct or divert along a particular course.
  • v. (Internet) to connect two local area networks, thereby forming an internet.
  • v. (computing) To send (information) through a router.
  • v. Eye dialect spelling of root.

running

  • adj. Moving or advancing by running.
  • adj. successive; one following the other without break or intervention.
  • adj. Flowing; easy; cursive.
  • adj. Continuous; keeping along step by step.
  • adj. (botany) Extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem.
  • adj. (medicine) Discharging pus.
  • adj. (of a nose) Discharging snot or mucus.
  • adv. (informal) consecutively; in a row.
  • n. The action of the verb to run.
  • n. The activity of running as a form of exercise, as a sport, or for any other reason.
  • n. That which runs or flows; the quantity of a liquid which flows in a certain time or during a certain operation.
  • n. The discharge from an ulcer or other sore.
  • v. present participle of run.

selection

  • n. The process or act of selecting.
  • n. Something selected.
  • n. A variety of items taken from a larger collection.
  • n. A musical piece.
  • n. (databases) A set of data obtained from a database using a query.

tag

  • n. A small label.
  • n. A game played by two or more children in which one child (known as "it") attempts to catch one of the…
  • n. A skin tag, an excrescence of skin.
  • n. A type of cardboard.
  • n. Graffiti in the form of a stylized signature particular to the artist.
  • n. A dangling lock of sheep's wool, matted with dung; a dung tag.
  • n. An attribution in narrated dialogue (eg, "he said").
  • n. (chiefly US) a vehicle number plate; a medal bearing identification data (animals, soldiers).
  • n. (baseball) An instance of touching the baserunner with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand.
  • n. (computing) A piece of markup representing an element in a markup language.
  • n. (computing) A keyword, term, or phrase associated with or assigned to data, media, and/or information…
  • n. Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely.
  • n. A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.
  • n. The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.
  • n. Something mean and paltry; the rabble.
  • n. A sheep in its first year.
  • n. (biochemistry) Any short peptide sequence artificially attached to proteins mostly in order to help purify,…
  • n. (slang) A person's name.
  • v. (transitive) To label (something).
  • v. (transitive, graffiti) To mark (something) with one’s tag.
  • v. (transitive) To remove dung tags from a sheep.
  • v. (transitive, baseball, colloquial) To hit the ball hard.
  • v. (transitive, baseball) To put a runner out by touching them with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand.
  • v. (transitive, computing) To mark with a tag (metadata for classification).
  • v. To follow closely, accompany, tag along.
  • v. (transitive) To catch and touch (a player in the game of tag).
  • v. (transitive) To fit with, or as if with, a tag or tags.
  • v. To fasten; to attach.
  • n. A decoration drawn over some Hebrew letters in Jewish scrolls.

tail

  • n. (anatomy) The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus.
  • n. The tail-end of an object, e.g. the rear of an aircraft's fuselage, containing the tailfin.
  • n. An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.
  • n. The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
  • n. Specifically, the visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
  • n. The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
  • n. (statistics) The part of a distribution most distant from the mode; as, a long tail.
  • n. One who surreptitiously follows another.
  • n. (cricket) The last four or five batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.
  • n. (typography) The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.
  • n. (chiefly in the plural) The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary…
  • n. (mathematics) All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.
  • n. (now colloquial, chiefly US) The buttocks or backside.
  • n. (slang) The penis of a person or animal.
  • n. (slang, uncountable) Sexual intercourse.
  • n. (kayaking) The stern; the back of the kayak.
  • n. The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
  • n. A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
  • n. (anatomy) The distal tendon of a muscle.
  • n. A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.
  • n. (surgery) A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness…
  • n. One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
  • n. (nautical) A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
  • n. (music) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
  • n. (mining) A tailing.
  • n. (architecture) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.
  • n. (colloquial, dated) A tailcoat.
  • v. (transitive) To follow and observe surreptitiously.
  • v. (architecture) To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in…
  • v. (nautical) To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.
  • v. To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
  • v. To pull or draw by the tail.
  • adj. (law) Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed.
  • n. (law) Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs.

trail

  • v. (transitive) To follow behind (someone or something); to tail (someone or something).
  • v. (transitive) To drag (something) behind on the ground.
  • v. (transitive) To leave (a trail of).
  • v. (transitive) To show a trailer of (a film, TV show etc.); to release or publish a preview of (a report…
  • v. To be losing, to be behind in a competition.
  • v. (military) To carry (a firearm) with the breech near the ground and the upper part inclined forward, the…
  • v. To flatten (grass, etc.) by walking through it; to tread down.
  • v. (dated) To take advantage of the ignorance of; to impose upon.
  • n. The track or indication marking the route followed by something that has passed, such as the footprints…
  • n. A route for travel over land, especially a narrow, unpaved pathway for use by hikers, horseback riders,…
  • n. A trailer broadcast on television for a forthcoming film or programme.
  • n. (graph theory) A walk in which all the edges are distinct.

traverse

  • n. (climbing) A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by…
  • n. (surveying) A series of points, with angles and distances measured between, traveled around a subject,…
  • n. (obsolete) A screen or partition.
  • n. Something that thwarts or obstructs.
  • n. (architecture) A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
  • n. (law) A formal denial of some matter of fact alleged by the opposite party in any stage of the pleadings…
  • n. (nautical) The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound…
  • n. (geometry) A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
  • n. (military) In trench warfare, a defensive trench built to prevent enfilade.
  • v. (transitive) To travel across, often under difficult conditions.
  • v. (transitive, computing) To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.
  • v. To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
  • v. (artillery) To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.
  • v. (climbing), To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle (relative to the slope).
  • v. (engineering), (skiing) To (make a cutting, an incline) across the gradients of a sloped face at safe…
  • v. To cross by way of opposition; to thwart with obstacles; to obstruct.
  • v. To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
  • v. (carpentry) To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood.
  • v. (law) To deny formally.
  • adv. athwart; across; crosswise.
  • adj. Lying across; being in a direction across something else.

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