What is the difference between court and track?
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An enclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different building; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley.
* (1809-1892)
* (1800-1859)
# A street with no outlet, a cul-de-sac.
(label) Royal society.
# The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or ether dignitary; a palace.
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
# The collective body of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign or person high in authority; all the surroundings of a sovereign in his regal state.
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
#* Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
# Any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign.
#* (1800-1859)
Attention directed to a person in power; conduct or address designed to gain favor; courtliness of manners; civility; compliment; flattery.
* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
* (John Evelyn) (1620-1706)
(label) The administration of law.
# The hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered.
# The persons officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an official assembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of causes.
#* {{quote-news, date=21 August 2012, first=Ed, last=Pilkington, newspaper=The Guardian
, title= # A tribunal established for the administration of justice.
# The judge or judges; as distinguished from the counsel or jury, or both.
# The session of a judicial assembly.
# Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical.
(label) A place arranged for playing the games of tennis, basketball, squash, badminton, volleyball and some other games; also, one of the divisions of a tennis court.
*{{quote-book, year=1935, author=
, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=5
, passage=By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts' and the subsidiary ' courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.}}
To seek to achieve or win.
* Prescott
* De Quincey
To risk (a consequence, usually negative).
To try to win a commitment to marry from.
* Shakespeare
To engage in behavior leading to mating.
To attempt to attract.
* Macaulay
To attempt to gain alliance with.
To engage in activities intended to win someone's affections.
To engage in courtship behavior.
To invite by attractions; to allure; to attract.
* Tennyson
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.
A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or beast; trace; vestige; footprint.
The entire lower surface of the foot; said of birds, etc.
A road; a beaten path.
Course; way; as, the track of a comet.
A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track . The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.}}
(railways) The permanent way; the rails.
A tract or area, as of land.
* Fuller
(automotive) The distance between two opposite wheels on a same axletree (also track width)
(automotive) Short for caterpillar track.
(cricket) The pitch.
Sound stored on a record.
The physical track on a record.
(music) A song or other relatively short piece of music, on a record, separated from others by a short silence
Circular (never-ending) data storage unit on a side of magnetic or optical disk, divided into sectors.
(uncountable, sports) The racing events of track and field; track and field in general.
A session talk on a conference.
To observe the (measured) state of an object over time
To monitor the movement of a person or object.
To discover the location of a person or object (usually in the form track down ).
To follow the tracks of.
To leave in the form of tracks.
In transitive terms the difference between court and track
is that court is to invite by attractions; to allure; to attract while track is to leave in the form of tracks.As a proper noun Court
is an abbreviated term of respect for any court ("the Court").court
English
Noun
(en noun)- And round the cool green courts there ran a row / Of cloisters.
- Goldsmith took a garret in a miserable court .
- This our court , infected with their manners, / Shows like a riotous inn.
- My lord, there is a nobleman of the court at door would speak with you.
- Love rules the court , the camp, the grove.
- The princesses held their court within the fortress.
- No solace could her paramour entreat / Her once to show, ne court , nor dalliance.
- I went to make my court to the Duke and Duchess of Newcastle.
Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?, passage=Next month, Clemons will be brought before a court presided over by a "special master", who will review the case one last time. The hearing will be unprecedented in its remit, but at its core will be a simple issue: should Reggie Clemons live or die?}}
George Goodchild
Derived terms
* contempt of court * court case * court fight * court jester * courtroom * hold court * in court * out-of-courtVerb
(en verb)- He was courting big new accounts that previous salesman had not attempted.
- They might almost seem to have courted the crown of martyrdom.
- Guilt and misery court privacy and solitude.
- He courted controversy with his frank speeches.
- If either of you both love Katharina / Leave shall you have to court her at your pleasure.
- The bird was courting by making an elaborate dance.
- By one person, hovever, Portland was still assiduously courted .
- She's had a few beaus come courting .
- In this season, you can see many animals courting .
- A well-worn pathway courted us / To one green wicket in a privet hedge.
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English
Noun
(en noun)- small tracks of ground
Synonyms
* (mark left by something that has passed along) trace, trail, wake * (mark or impression left by the foot) footprint * (entire lower surface of the foot) * path, road, way * (course) course, path, trajectory, way * course, racetrack * (the permanent way) rails, railway, train tracks, tracks * (tract or area) area, parcel, region, tract * (distance between two opposite wheels) track width * ground, pitch * (sound stored on a record) recording * (physical track on a record) groove * (circular data storage unit on a side of magnetic or optical disk) * (track and field) athletics, track and fieldDerived terms
* * album track * beaten track * fast track * half-track * half-tracker * lose track * mid-track * mommy track * off the beaten track * on the right track * on track * one-track mind * railroad track * railway track * reserved track * tenure-track * title track * track and field * trackball * track-mounted * trackpad * track record * track spike * track width * train track * tram trackSee also
* path * trailVerb
(en verb)- My uncle spent all day tracking the deer.
- In winter, my cat tracks mud all over the house.