Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who finds or shows a track or path; a guide.
- n. One who tracks or tows a boat or raft, as on a river or canal.
- n. 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.
- n. pl See sticker, 6.
- n. One who or that which pursues or hunts by following the track or trail; a trailer.
- n. One who observes and follows.
Wiktionary
- 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.
- n. computing A type of computer software for composing music by aligning samples on parallel timelines.
- n. computing A musician who writes music in a tracker.
- n. computing A computer program that monitors something.
- n. finance A tracker mortgage.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who, or that which, tracks or pursues, as a man or dog that follows game.
- n. (Mus.) In the organ, a light strip of wood connecting (in path) a key and a pallet, to communicate motion by pulling.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who tracks down game
Etymologies
- to track + -er (Wiktionary)
Examples
“See in that little center there are what we call tracker points or energy centers.”
“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
“The Bezeq International tracker is a Usenet provider in the Netherlands, says Gulli, but the seeds are on the ISP network.”
““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.”
“He's in the right and the video tracker is an ass.”
“The video was shot by a tracker from the National Republican Congressional Campaign Committee.”
“USA TODAY's presidential poll tracker is powered by data from Pollster. com.”
“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
“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.”
“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.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tracker’.
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Brand Theft Auto
A marque list for cars--models or companies who've used common words as their name.
explorer, navigator, frontier, mustang, quest, cougar, sidekick, legend, legacy, ranger, voyager, civic and 266 more...
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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KaeZoo's Words
flingers, unhinged, driven, flanked, arboreal, venerable, endearing, iconoclastic, fletcher, competent, fireproof, cavernous and 215 more...
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the hotlist
short, sweet, epic, catchy, sassy, sexy & sizzling.
( personal list, randomness )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/...zing, epic, win, fail, hot, warp, times, clip, onyx, wonky, pwn, leet and 1493 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for tracker.
tobiasn 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 Jun 8, 2009