keep track

keep track

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

keep track (third-person singular simple present keeps track, present participle keeping track, simple past and past participle kept track)

1. To monitor; to track or record; to understand or follow.

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   • 2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, OCLC 962368035, PC, scene: Normandy SR-2:

     Dalatrass: No good can come from curing the genophage.
     Shepard: The krogan have paid for their mistakes. The genophage has gone on long enough.
     Wrex: One thousand, four hundred and seventy-six years, if you're keeping track.
     Datatrass: It was a thousand years of peace free from these... brutes.

Usage notes

• Used with or without "of":
  • There are many versions, and it's difficult to keep track.
  • There are many versions, and it's difficult to keep track of them all.

Translations

monitor

Arabic: رَاقَّبَ‎ (rāqqaba) Chinese: Mandarin: 監測／监测 (zh) (jiāncè) Finnish: seurata (fi) French: garder un suivi German: verfolgen (de), nachverfolgen (de), im Auge behalten Greek: παρακολουθώ (el) (parakolouthó) Russian: отсле́живать (ru) impf (otsléživatʹ), отследи́ть (ru) pf (otsledítʹ), следи́ть (ru) impf (sledítʹ), проследи́ть (ru) pf (prosledítʹ) Spanish: llevar un registro Swedish: hålla reda på

See also

• keep tabs on