What's the difference between track and tracker?

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.

Tracker


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, tracks or pursues, as a man or dog that follows game.
  • (n.) In the organ, a light strip of wood connecting (in path) a key and a pallet, to communicate motion by pulling.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Eye movements of convergence and divergence were recorded by a limbus tracker.
  • (2) Lloyds TSB, Cheltenham & Gloucester and Nationwide have SVRs of 2.5% while the Woolwich transfers existing customers to a tracker of base rate plus 0.95% - a pay rate of a minuscule 1.44%.
  • (3) It’s first Fitbit Tracker was released that year, a glorified pedometer that looked like a clothes peg.
  • (4) The responses of accommodation and vergence were measured simultaneously with a dual Purkinje image eye tracker and infrared optometer while subjects viewed a Maltese cross monocularly through a pinhole pupil and made voluntary efforts to imaginary changes in target distance.
  • (5) But this is not sufficient and IEA should be more transparent regarding the sensitivities of its key assumptions.” The Carbon Tracker report found that the cumulative impact of a world of low population and economic growth and a continued renewable energy boom would cut energy demand even lower than the IEA’s low emissions scenario, which keeps the world within 2C of warming.
  • (6) Someone with a £150,000 repayment mortgage currently on a tracker rate of 2.5% would see their costs rise from £673 a month to £877 a month if rates went up to 3%, and to £1,060 if they hit 5%.
  • (7) It is encouraging to see this major central bank seeing the need to move with the times and understand its role in dealing with one of the major challenges facing our economies today: climate change,” said James Leaton, research director at the Carbon Tracker Initiative .
  • (8) Democrats are planning to highlight what they see as the Republican party’s unpalatable views on immigration over the weekend, sending “trackers” to monitor the event in search of further gaffes from potential candidates.
  • (9) Nationwide building society has cut the cost of its two-year tracker to just 2.64% for loans up to 70% LTV.
  • (10) Tortuosity of LIMA was negotiated using the Tracker-Seeker catheter guidewire system.
  • (11) The film garnered $40m in digital sales after the company made it available for download, according to Sony, and another $6.7m in cinemas worldwide, according to industry tracker boxofficemojo.com .
  • (12) Low rates have left mortgage borrowers, particularly those on base-rate trackers, much better off.
  • (13) Four million people with tracker mortgages will see repayments fall following today's move.
  • (14) A loan tracker service, set up by Citizens Advice examining about 2,000 loans taken out with 113 lenders, found that 87% of lenders did not ask the borrower to provide documents to show they could afford the loan, while 58% failed to explain that the loan should not be used for long-term borrowing.
  • (15) Xiao controls Tomorrow Group, a holding company with stakes in real-estate, insurance, coal and cement firms and his wealth is estimated to be about 40 billion yuan (£4.6 billion), according to wealth tracker Hurun Report .
  • (16) BP’s 2017 outlook has increased its electric vehicle projections on last year, but this still lags far behind the potential penetration if the technology were to take off, meaning there is still a risk of the company misreading oil demand,” said James Leaton, head of research at the Carbon Tracker Initiative, a London-based thinktank.
  • (17) The latest Asda income tracker survey, which tracks the amount of cash households have left after paying for necessities such as mortgage or rent, gas and electricity, food and transport, is at its lowest point since the survey started in 2007.
  • (18) After several unsuccessful attempts at dislodgment, a Tracker catheter system was advanced directly to the site of the sphere, and the sphere was successfully dislodged.
  • (19) FitBug Orb and Kik Plans The FitBug Orb, released last year, makes fitness trackers more affordable at under £50.
  • (20) Under Zonneveld's valuation, Royal Mail would join the FTSE100 list of Britain's biggest companies, which means tracker funds will be forced to buy the stock.