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TRACKED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having tracks
Example:
tracked vehicles
Classified under:
Similar:
caterpillar-tracked (having caterpillar treads or tracks on the wheels)
half-track; half-tracked (having caterpillar treads on the rear and wheels in front)
Antonym:
trackless (having no tracks)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb track
Context examples:
The team tracked the brain’s usage of glucose by measuring ratios of the amino acids serine, glycine and alanine to glucose, allowing them to assess rates of the key steps of glycolysis.
(Higher brain glucose levels may mean more severe Alzheimer’s, National Institutes of Health)
Cassini and observers on Earth tracked the most recent of these storms from December 2010 to August 2011.
(Study Explains Saturn's Epic Tantrums, NASA)
CSF in 30 percent of HIV-infected patients tracked showed at least transient signs of inflammation – suggesting an active infectious process – or viral replication within the first two years of infection.
(HIV can spread early, evolve in patients’ brains, NIH)
The concentration of each pollutant in each tube was tracked over the next 11 days.
(Common Houseplant with Genetic Modification Can Remove Polluted Air, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The study tracked 144 children ages 4 to 9 who had been living with type 1diabetes for an average of 2 and one-half years.
(Chronic high blood sugar may be detrimental to the developing brain of young children, NIH)
He had tracked us down somehow, and had set himself to live upon our fears.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He managed to find employment with Morse Hudson, and in that way tracked down three of them.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
This research has tracked and measured the visual behavior of people going about their everyday tasks, providing more natural responses than if they were in a lab.
(Eyes Can Indicate Personality Type, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
He adds: We tracked the effects of our sound playback for 40 days.
(Loudspeakers used to attract fish back to dying coral reefs, SciDev.Net)
Over the same period, MESA (Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis) carefully tracked air pollution.
(Study finds link between long-term exposure to air pollution and emphysema, National Institutes of Health)
