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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tracker
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
tracker dog
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a financial investment tracker
▪ a star tracker
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After a moment's hesitation Jacques Devraux followed at a distance with his trackers.
▪ Even before the summit, the trackers announced they had located the gorillas and we should prepare to enter their presence.
▪ The tracker who had worked with Ian Hofmeyr darting the Deduru-Oya elephants was forced to guide the raiders out of the park.
▪ The eighth, a black-bearded, brown-faced man named Tagan was the tracker.
▪ Then Tagan, the tracker, stopped and stood in his stirrups, his head up and his eyes narrowed.
▪ Then, treading carefully, he followed on behind the last Moi trackers.
▪ We both employed local Arussi as trackers, some of whom were very skilful and all of whom were tireless.
▪ While they rested, Devraux again sent his trackers to climb lookout trees.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tracker

Tracker \Track"er\, n.

  1. One who, or that which, tracks or pursues, as a man or dog that follows game.

    And of the trackers of the deer Scarce half the lessening pack was near.
    --Sir W. Scott.

  2. (Mus.) In the organ, a light strip of wood connecting (in path) a key and a pallet, to communicate motion by pulling.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
tracker

1610s, agent noun from track (v.).

Wiktionary
tracker

n. 1 One who, or that which, tracks or pursues, as a man or dog that follows game. 2 In the organ, a light strip of wood connecting (in path) a key and a pallet, to communicate motion by pulling. 3 (context computing English) A type of computer software for composing music by aligning samples on parallel timelines. 4 (context computing English) A musician who writes music in a tracker. 5 (context computing English) A computer program that monitors something. 6 # (context file sharing English) Server software that coordinates peers in the BitTorrent protocol. 7 (context finance English) A tracker mortgage.

WordNet
tracker

n. someone who tracks down game

Wikipedia
Tracker

Tracker may refer to:

Tracker (TV series)

Tracker is a 2001 Canadian science fiction television series starring Adrian Paul and Amy Price-Francis. The series is based on a short story by Gil Grant and Jeannine Renshaw. The pilot episode and two other episodes were edited into the film Alien Tracker.

Tracker (band)

Tracker is an American indie rock ensemble from Portland, Oregon. The act was founded in 1998 by John Askew, a freelance audio engineer and writer for Tape Op magazine.

Tracker (granola bar)

Tracker is a chewy cereal bar manufactured by Mars, Incorporated and sold in the UK and Ireland. The same product is sold in Switzerland under the Balisto brand.

Trackers come in five flavours: Chocolate Chip, Roasted Nut, Raisin, Burst of Berries and Tangy Lemon, although the latter two fruit varieties are much more difficult to come by. Only the first two varieties are sold under the Balisto brand in Switzerland.

The bars are individually wrapped, and are sold individually or (in the case of the Choc Chip, Roast Nut and Raisin varieties) can be bought in grocery boxes of eight (six for Balisto).

Category:Mars confectionery brands Category:Brand name snack foods Category:Cereal bars

Tracker (search software)

Tracker, is a file indexing and file search framework (see the article desktop search) for Linux and other Unix-like systems. Tracker is written in the C programming language.

Tracker has been adopted by the GNOME desktop environment and is heavily integrated into GNOME Shell and GNOME Files.

One of the developers of the Conduit application has suggested using Tracker to create "a metadata-enabled GNOME", which would be similar to using Strigi as an indexer for a metadata framework in KDE Software Compilation 4.

Tracker (business software)

Tracker is a family of business software products developed by Automation Centre. Each product includes applications for various business processes. While these products share a similar process framework, they differ in platform deployment.

Tracker (film)

Tracker is a 2011 British–New Zealand action-thriller film set in 1903 New Zealand, directed by Ian Sharp and starring Ray Winstone and Temuera Morrison.

Tracker (file manager)

Haiku Tracker is a graphical user interface for managing files of the Haiku operating system. It is somewhat similar to Finder on Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X.

Haiku Tracker is based on OpenTracker which in turn is based on Tracker found in the BeOS.

Tracker (comics)

Tracker is a joint comic book venture of Top Cow Productions and Heroes and Villains Entertainment. It was written by Jonathan Lincoln and has art done by Francis Tsai, Derek Donovan, and Abhishek Malsuni.

Tracker (album)

Tracker is the eighth solo studio album by British singer-songwriter and guitarist Mark Knopfler, released on March 16, 2015 (17 March 2015 in North America).

Usage examples of "tracker".

Corporal Hart relinquished his seat to the azimuth tracker, who promptly speared the oncoming blip with her electronic pin.

June and Van Deef were assigned to transfer the tracker to Bell Street so that the large gate might be moved, but they were to flee to Man Station soon as the gate recharged.

Among the green and gentle slopes ran broken, pebbly trails, where the fleeing Magg might have passed and where clues would be invisible to the eyes of even the most able tracker.

He spoke to the Rindge again, then glanced at the Tracker and shrugged.

Grimsley, who was west of Samawah and out of radio contact with Rutter, knew something was amiss when he checked Blue Force Tracker: there were blue icons in the heart of Samawah.

Keep in mind I cannot easily spare them, because drawing blood from the unmagic I presently have and preparing it for tracker spells is complicated work.

Your obstacles are seven tracker beasts: vourhain, malorn, zeil, kassai, min-mollitor, weyhant, and zytoon.

He hated the way the bearish Tracker looked at him, as if seeing right through skin and bone.

They were bound to have skilled trackers with them, men accustomed to the winter trails of bouquetin and chamois.

It was the trackers exulting on the trail of the pursued, the prolonged, raucous howl, eager, ominous, vibrating with the alarm of the tocsin, sullen with the heavy muffling note of death.

I sprang out of the vehicle and moved ahead of the trackers, Screecher in hand.

When the two Trackers shook off their stupefication and started for her, a tentacle came across the railing, dragged them overboard and left them thrashing in the water alongside.

Doc Savage has been, for instance, under the wing of a Yale expert on atomic phenomena, a Virginia experimenter in supersensory activity, a Yogi practitioner from India, a jungle chief and tracker in Africa.

At the very least she should have asked the weatherwise Camilla, a skilled tracker and guide, to accompany her.

A tracker named Ben from Noongal Station was brought into the search and he and Larsen travelled to Pindathuna to pick up Willocks on 5 September 1931.