tracks

track

informal To be in agreement or accordance (with something); to concur with or corroborate some piece of information. Usually used in negative constructions. Her testimony doesn't track with the defendant's alibi. The two sets of figures just don't track. I suspect they're trying to make their sales numbers look more impressive for their shareholders.

tracks

slang Marks left on one's skin from repeated injections of intravenous drugs, especially heroin. I caught a glimpse of the tracks on his arm, and I realized that he may need more serious help than I had thought.
See also: track
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

track

1. in. [for a laser beam, a phonograph stylus, a tape head, etc.] to successfully transfer information to or from a recording medium. Something here won’t track. Must be the stylus.
2. in. [for a person] to make sense. (Usually in the negative.) She wasn’t tracking. There was no sense in trying to talk to her before she came out of it.
3. in. to coincide; to agree; to jibe. These two things don’t track. I don’t know what’s wrong.
4. n. a musical selection on a recording of some kind. The next track is my favorite.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • track
  • tracking
  • track with (something)
  • put (something) past (someone)
  • stat
  • stats
  • anytime soon
  • have it both ways
  • any luck
References in classic literature
This track, as you perceive, was made by a rider who was going from the direction of the school."
We found, however, as we advanced that this portion of the moor is intersected with soft patches, and, though we frequently lost sight of the track, we always succeeded in picking it up once more.
There was a broad, irregular smudge covering some yards of the track. Then there were a few footmarks, and the tire reappeared once more.
But there is no other track. Cattle on this side path.
We picked up the track and followed it onward for some distance, but soon the moor rose into a long, heather-tufted curve, and we left the watercourse behind us.
They are for the use of horses, but they are shaped below with a cloven foot of iron, so as to throw pursuers off the track. They are supposed to have belonged to some of the marauding Barons of Holdernesse in the Middle Ages."
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
The system has two streams of students - the Green and Gold Tracks - which have created room for more students to be admitted, using the available educational facilities.
Over 41,000 students begin Gold Track system in B/A
Follow sheep tracks above righthand crest, head for ancient earthwork down righthand spur.
Walk of the week; Inside Out Quick guide to turning your free time into fun time
The undercarriages are made of tough, forged steel components, similar to tracks used on bulldozers, which offer increased traction, improved ride and the potential to extend track life.
Importance of compact track loaders undercarriages
ISLAMABAD -- The Ministry of Railways will upgrade its existing tracks besides installing new railway tracks from Gwadar-Quetta-Jacobabad via Besima Tehsil in Balochistan.
Railways to upgrade existing tracks under CPEC
Beijing -- China's Ministry of Education has said it will tear up running tracks at schools that have been blamed for making students ill.
Chinese authorities to tear up 'toxic' school running tracks
Without a doubt, Beynon has engineered what is expected to be one of the fastest tracks in the world.
Cutting Edge Track Featured at "Nike + Run Club House of Track" Locally Built by Beynon Sports Surfaces of Tualatin, Oregon
I really believe in and support what these folks are doing, but for this article I'm going to focus on how a friend and I have used a relatively new tool to lay out, monitor and document tracks as an aid to training.
Deer Recovery: new technology aids training in blood tracking
Since fossils are the remains of living things, even footprints or tracks of where an ancient animal walked are considered fossils.
Did dinosaurs dance?