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Tracking   /trˈækɪŋ/   Listen
Tracking

noun
1.
The pursuit (of a person or animal) by following tracks or marks they left behind.  Synonym: trailing.



Track

verb
(past & past part. tracked; pres. part. tracking)
1.
Carry on the feet and deposit.
2.
Observe or plot the moving path of something.
3.
Go after with the intent to catch.  Synonyms: chase, chase after, dog, give chase, go after, tag, tail, trail.  "The dog chased the rabbit"
4.
Travel across or pass over.  Synonyms: cover, cross, cut across, cut through, get across, get over, pass over, traverse.
5.
Make tracks upon.



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"Tracking" Quotes from Famous Books



... literary life of Coleridge was a disinterested struggle against the relative spirit. With a strong native bent towards the tracking of all questions, critical or practical, to first principles, he is ever restlessly scheming to "apprehend the absolute," to affirm it effectively, to get it acknowledged. It was an effort, surely, an effort of sickly thought, that saddened ...
— Appreciations, with an Essay on Style • Walter Horatio Pater

... trouble that day, whirling around, getting on bars, breaking her line and all that. The expedition came near getting into grief—men had to go overboard and steady her, and they were swimming, poling, rowing, and tracking all that day." ...
— The Young Alaskans on the Missouri • Emerson Hough

... case of man's cunning against that of a beast; and after being away some hours, he came up with the not very pleasant information that a huge lion, one of the ferocious maneless kind, was tracking the waggon, and would no doubt hang upon their trail until it had pounced upon one of the horses, ...
— Off to the Wilds - Being the Adventures of Two Brothers • George Manville Fenn

... to be ravaged by moss-troopers long after the union of the Crowns. The gentry lived in their strong Peel castles; even the larger farm-houses were fortified; and bloodhounds were trained for the purpose of tracking the cattle-reavers to their retreats in the hills. The Judges of Assize rode from Carlisle to Newcastle guarded by an escort armed to the teeth. A tribute called "dagger and protection money" was annually paid by the Sheriff of Newcastle for the purpose of providing ...
— Lives of the Engineers - The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson • Samuel Smiles

... 'Thank goodness, tracking is about the last thing that would occur to a German. All the same, Kemp is quite cute enough to leave a guard posted here ...
— On Land And Sea At The Dardanelles • Thomas Charles Bridges


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