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Synonyms for tracker

Grammar : Noun
Spell : trak
Phonetic Transcription : træk

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Définition of tracker

Origin :
  • late 15c., "footprint, mark left by anything," from Old French trac "track of horses, trace" (mid-15c.), possibly from a Germanic source (cf. Middle Low German treck, Dutch trek "drawing, pulling;" see trek). Meaning "lines of rails for drawing trains" is from 1805. Meaning "branch of athletics involving a running track" is recorded from 1905. Meaning "single recorded item" is from 1904, originally in reference to phonograph records. Meaning "mark on skin from repeated drug injection" is first attested 1964.
  • Track record (1955) is a figurative use from racing, "performance history" of an individual car, runner, horse, etc.(1907, but the phrase was more common in sense "fastest speed recorded at a particular track"). To make tracks "move quickly" is American English colloquial first recorded 1835; to cover (one's) tracks in the figurative sense first attested 1898; to keep track of something is attested from 1883. American English wrong side of the tracks "bad part of town" is by 1901. Track lighting attested from 1970.
  • As in sleuth : noun detective
Example sentences :
  • It had been arranged that Elmer was to act as pathfinder and tracker.
  • Extract from : « Pathfinder » by Alan Douglas
  • But he is better to-day, and I shall bring him my 'tracker.'
  • Extract from : « Golden Moments » by Anonymous
  • This man was something more than a thief-taker and a tracker of criminals.
  • Extract from : « Jack O' Judgment » by Edgar Wallace
  • "We could not find Ugh-lomi," said Siss the Tracker, slowly.
  • Extract from : « Tales of Space and Time » by Herbert George Wells
  • There were a half dozen pillars the tracker could use for cover.
  • Extract from : « Smugglers' Reef » by John Blaine
  • This roll goes over a tracker board in which there are little holes.
  • Extract from : « Arguments before the Committee on Patents of the House of Representatives, conjointly with the Senate Committee on Patents, on H.R. 19853, to amend and consolidate the acts respecting copyright » by United States Committee on Patents
  • It is simply by relation to what is called the tracker board.
  • Extract from : « Arguments before the Committee on Patents of the House of Representatives, conjointly with the Senate Committee on Patents, on H.R. 19853, to amend and consolidate the acts respecting copyright » by United States Committee on Patents
  • But it was questionable as to how long he'd ride with such a tracker on his trail.
  • Extract from : « Hi Jolly! » by James Arthur Kjelgaard
  • By the time they reached the open air their tracker had vanished utterly.
  • Extract from : « The Crimson Flash » by Roy J. Snell
  • This is an optical illusion, but it serves the tracker's purpose.
  • Extract from : « Tracks and Tracking » by Josef Brunner
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