What's the difference between brack and track?

Brack


Definition:

  • (n.) An opening caused by the parting of any solid body; a crack or breach; a flaw.
  • (n.) Salt or brackish water.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This is why the recent Victorian Bracks Review into school funding has recommended a new system of strategic audits that would require schools to report on how effectively funds are being used to improve outcomes for students.
  • (2) The author used Deller and Brack's method in the treatment of twelve patients with squinting amblyopia and eccentric fixation.
  • (3) As McDougall tells it, Bracks didn’t take much notice of the report anyway – that’s the way transport policy seems to work.
  • (4) Restriction enzyme mapping as well as partial nucleotide sequencing of the 3' terminal of the homology region confirm the previous conclusion [Tonegawa, Brack, Hozumi and Schuller, Proc.
  • (5) The tendency of copolypeptides with alternating hydrophilic and hydrophobic residues to form water soluble beta-structures in presence of salt, already described for poly(Val-Lys) (Brack and Orgel, 1975), was generalized to optically pure poly(Lys-Leu-Lys-Leu) and poly(Leu-Glu-Leu- G lu).
  • (6) Urging the party to reject the proposed U-turn, Duncan Brack – the former special adviser to the previous Lib Dem energy secretary Chris Huhne – warned the party could not be taken seriously if it changed its stance by pretending airports could be expanded without any impact on carbon emissions.
  • (7) The desal plant was commissioned by Steve Bracks’s Labor government in 2007, amid the lengthy millennium drought, and was completed in 2012.
  • (8) Indeed, the Bracks Review argued forcefully that the Gonski money the Coalition has walked away from is absolutely central to maintaining a quality school system.
  • (9) Possible explanations for the occurrence of identical hinge-region deletions in three different immunoglobulins are suggested by recent experiments demonstrating that the three constant domains and the hinge region of mouse gamma1 chains are each encoded by separate segments of DNA [Sakano, H., Rogers, J. H., Hüppi, K., Brack, C., Traunecker, A., Maki, R., Wall, R., & Tonegawa, S. (1979) Nature (London) 277, 627].
  • (10) The Labor leader Steve Bracks rejected that idea, saying he would instead conduct a study to look into transport in the northern suburbs.

Track


Definition:

  • (n.) A mark left by something that has passed along; as, the track, or wake, of a ship; the track of a meteor; the track of a sled or a wheel.
  • (n.) A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or beast; trace; vestige; footprint.
  • (n.) The entire lower surface of the foot; -- said of birds, etc.
  • (n.) A road; a beaten path.
  • (n.) Course; way; as, the track of a comet.
  • (n.) A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc.
  • (n.) The permanent way; the rails.
  • (n.) A tract or area, as of land.
  • (v. t.) To follow the tracks or traces of; to pursue by following the marks of the feet; to trace; to trail; as, to track a deer in the snow.
  • (v. t.) To draw along continuously, as a vessel, by a line, men or animals on shore being the motive power; to tow.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Lucy and Ed will combine coverage of hard and breaking news with a commitment to investigative journalism, which their track record so clearly demonstrates”.
  • (2) DATA Modern football data analysis has its origins in a video-based system that used computer vision algorithms to automatically track players.
  • (3) The company said it was on track to meet forecasts for annual profit of about £110m.
  • (4) Liu was a driving force behind the modernisation of China's rail system, a project that included building 10,000 miles of high-speed rail track by 2020 – with a budget of £170bn, one of the most expensive engineering feats in recent history.
  • (5) Tracks were almost exclusively written on tour, including this jolting number, with an additional four tracks recorded in the studio.
  • (6) Both microcomputer use and tracking patient care experience are technical skills similar to learning any medical procedure with which physicians are already familiar.
  • (7) Nevertheless, Richard Bacon MP, a member of the Public Accounts Committee, who has tirelessly tracked failings in NHS IT, said last night: "I think the chances that Lorenzo will be turned into a credible and popular product are vanishingly small.
  • (8) Gerhard Schröder , Merkel’s immediate predecessor, had pushed through parliament a radical reform agenda to get the country’s spluttering economy back on track.
  • (9) That would be the first step towards banning Russia’s track team from next year’s Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
  • (10) Piedmont’s research, which was conducted among 3,000 filmgoers and weighted to the demographics of the cinemagoing public, is not the same as the Hollywood tracking system, which delivers predictions of box-office success.
  • (11) Only two of the 31 commandos escaped; the rest were tracked down and killed.
  • (12) Latencies were increased two- to threefold, and tracking was more variable.
  • (13) However, clemastine caused a decay in subjects' performance in both Experiments I and II, but only on the tracking task.
  • (14) Burns has a successful track record of opposing fees.
  • (15) The workforce has changed dramatically since 1900 – just 29,000 Americans today work in fishing and the number of job titles tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics has grown to almost 600 – everything from “animal trainers” to “wind turbine service technicians” (and there are even more sub categories).
  • (16) The fact that we’re tracking towards the hottest year on record should send chills through anyone who says they care about climate change – especially negotiators at the UN climate talks here in Lima,” said Samantha Smith, who heads WWF’s climate and energy initiative.
  • (17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Beyoncé’s last album was an iTunes exclusive, with videos for every track.
  • (18) Cameras have been set up by the zoo to track his movements and footpaths in the area closed by the county council.
  • (19) Comparison of these tracks and the Hadar hominid foot fossils by Tuttle has led him to conclude that Australopithecus afarensis did not make the Tanzanian prints and that a more derived form of hominid is therefore indicated at Laetoli.
  • (20) A lot is being expected of rookie cornerbacks Desmond Trufant and Robert Alford, but defensive co-ordinator Mike Nolan has a good track record of keeping his units competitive.

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