tracked

Verb

track (third-person singular simple present tracks, present participle tracking, simple past and past participle tracked)

1. (transitive) To observe the (measured) state of a person or object over time.
   • We will track the raven population over the next six months.
2. (transitive) To monitor the movement of a person or object.
   • Agent Miles has been tracking the terrorist since Madrid.

   Synonyms:

   follow

3. (transitive) To match the movement or change of a person or object.
   • My height tracks my father's at my age, so I might end up as tall as him.
4. (intransitive, transitive) To travel so that a moving object remains in shot.
   • The camera tracked the ball even as the field of play moved back and forth, keeping the action in shot the entire time.
5. (intransitive) To move.
   • The hurricane tracked further west than expected.
6. (transitive) To traverse; to move across.
   • I've swept o'er the mountain, the forest and fell, / I've played on the rock where the wild chamois dwell; / I have tracked the desert so dreary and rude, / Through the pathless depths of its solitude; […]1837, Elizabeth Parker, Popular Poems. Selected by E. P., page 228

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