Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who finds or shows a track or path; a guide.
- noun One who or that which pursues or hunts by following the track or trail; a trailer.
- noun One who observes and follows.
- noun One who tracks or tows a boat or raft, as on a river or canal.
- noun In organ-building, a thin strip or ribbon of wood used to transmit a pulling motion from one lever to another: opposed to sticker, which acts by pushing. See cut under
organ . - noun pl See
sticker , 6.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, tracks or pursues, as a man or dog that follows game.
- noun (Mus.) In the organ, a light strip of wood connecting (in path) a key and a pallet, to communicate motion by pulling.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who, or that which,
tracks orpursues , as a man or dog thatfollows game. - noun In the
organ , a lightstrip of wood connecting (in path) a key and a pallet, to communicate motion by pulling. - noun computing A type of computer
software forcomposing music by aligningsamples on paralleltimelines . - noun computing A
musician who writes music in a tracker. - noun computing A computer program that monitors something.
- noun finance A
tracker mortgage .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who tracks down game
Etymologies
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Examples
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See in that little center there are what we call tracker points or energy centers.
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Nokia sports tracker is really great if you have a nokia smart phone, i enjoy using it for running and cycling.
Five Best Exercise Planning And Tracking Tools | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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“The additional tracker is only accessible for Bezeq International customers and it connects to a high speed web-seed hosted on Bezeq International ` s network,” says the story.
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He's in the right and the video tracker is an ass.
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CNET tracker is pretty good if you can filter out their constant email notifications
How Do You Keep Your Computer Patched And Up To Date? | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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The video was shot by a tracker from the National Republican Congressional Campaign Committee.
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The Bezeq International tracker is a Usenet provider in the Netherlands, says Gulli, but the seeds are on the ISP network.
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USA TODAY's presidential poll tracker is powered by data from Pollster. com.
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I don't know how accurate that AJAX tracker is (it seems kind of fast to my eyes) but I'm in Madison WI, and it had the EAS passing over Madison at exactly 9: 46 CST, and I happened to be reading this post at exactly 9: 45 CST.
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He says that the fun of using his LEGO time tracker is a big advantage — we do use systems we enjoy using — but that co-workers coming to your place and disassembling your workweek is the one disadvantage.
Track Your Time with LEGO Bricks | Lifehacker Australia 2008
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Quinn, who received a guest credential for the summit from the state’s G.O.P., said a person associated with the event had told him that he had a history of being disruptive and had accused him of being a tracker, a type of political operative who records rival candidates.
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tobiasn commented on the word tracker
The term "Tracker" is also used to describe a set of early music composing software, or sequecers, made popular by the classic "Fast tracker" in the early nineties.
With trackers you produce "modules" (MOD) - the tunes, songs or compositions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracker
June 8, 2009