horse vs track

horse

verb
  • To take or carry on the back. 

  • To pull, haul, or move (something) with great effort, like a horse would. 

  • To play mischievous pranks on. 

  • To frolic, to act mischievously. (Usually followed by "around".) 

  • To sit astride of; to bestride. 

  • To flog. 

  • To cram (food) quickly, indiscriminately or in great volume. 

  • To copulate with (a mare). 

  • To place (someone) on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, chair, etc., to be flogged or punished. 

  • To provide with a horse; supply horses for. 

noun
  • A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work. 

  • A breastband for a leadsman. 

  • A timber frame shaped like a horse, which soldiers were made to ride for punishment. 

  • Any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae, including zebras and asses. 

  • An iron bar for a sheet traveller to slide upon. 

  • In gymnastics, a piece of equipment with a body on two or four legs, approximately four feet high, sometimes (pommel horse) with two handles on top. 

  • The chess piece representing a knight, depicted as a horse. 

  • Cavalry soldiers (sometimes capitalized when referring to an official category). 

  • A frame with legs, used to support something. 

  • A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse (said of a vein) is to divide into branches for a distance. 

  • A prison guard who smuggles contraband in or out for prisoners. 

  • The flesh of a horse as an item of cuisine. 

  • A xiangqi piece, that moves and captures one point orthogonally and then one point diagonally. 

  • Any member of the species Equus ferus, including the Przewalski's horse and the extinct Equus ferus ferus. 

  • A jackstay. 

  • An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss adding a letter to the word "horse", with 5 misses spelling the whole word and eliminating a player, until only the winner is left. Also HORSE, H-O-R-S-E or H.O.R.S.E. (see H-O-R-S-E on Wikipedia.Wikipedia). 

  • A large and sturdy person. 

  • Heroin (drug). 

  • A rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling the sails; footrope. 

track

verb
  • To tow. 

  • To create music using tracker software. 

  • To make sense; to be consistent with known information 

  • To monitor the movement of a person or object. 

  • To traverse; to move across. 

  • To create a musical recording (a track). 

  • To exhibit good cognitive function. 

  • To discover the location of a person or object by following traces. 

  • To make tracks on or to leave in the form of tracks. 

  • To match the movement or change of a person or object. 

  • To travel so that a moving object remains in shot. 

  • To follow the tracks of. 

  • To move. 

  • To observe the (measured) state of a person or object over time. 

noun
  • A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc. 

  • The distance between two opposite wheels on a same axletree. 

  • Physical course; way. 

  • The entire lower surface of the foot; said of birds, etc. 

  • The pitch. 

  • A road or other similar beaten path. 

  • The direction and progress of someone or something; path. 

  • Awareness of something, especially when arising from close monitoring. 

  • A tract or area, such as of land. 

  • A song or other relatively short piece of music, on a record, separated from others by a short silence. 

  • The street, as a prostitute's place of work. 

  • A circular (never-ending) data storage unit on a side of magnetic or optical disk, divided into sectors. 

  • A themed set of talks within a conference. 

  • A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or animal. 

  • The way or rails along which a train moves. 

  • Sound stored on a record. 

  • The physical track on a record. 

  • A mark left by something that has passed along. 

  • The racing events of track and field; track and field in general. 

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