tracking

[ trak-ing ]
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Other words from tracking

  • mis·track·ing, noun

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How to use tracking in a sentence

  • The snowshoe rabbit made its appearance, tracking the shadowy, silent woods with great, outlandish marks.

    The White Desert | Courtney Ryley Cooper
  • Here the party spread out, paying close attention to the pavement, as if they were engaged in tracking something.

    Star Born | Andre Norton
  • He had an unreasonable conviction that, if he had known at once of Janie's disappearance, he would have succeeded in tracking her.

    A Life Sentence | Adeline Sergeant
  • When we had been several days continuously tracking we came up with the beasts.

  • Thy voice has been as the sound of glad horns upon a hill, but thy ways are the ways of a gaunt hound tracking the hunted stag.

British Dictionary definitions for tracking

tracking

/ (ˈtrækɪŋ) /


noun
  1. the act or process of following something or someone

  2. electrical engineering a leakage of electric current between two points separated by an insulating material caused by dirt, carbon particles, moisture, etc

  1. the way wheels on a vehicle are aligned

  2. a function of a video cassette recorder, which adjusts the alignment of the heads in order to achieve the best possible audio and video reproduction from each recording

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