keep track

verb

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

“The results were kept track of by Jeff and his team.”

Opposite

Meanings

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

present singular third person keeps track · participle present keeping track · participle past kept track · past kept track

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

    The results were kept track of by Jeff and his team.

    4 more examples

    Please sign in, so that we can keep track of who is here.

    We're doing so well, I hope someone is keeping track.

    He keeps track of the ball so he can follow it with the camera.

    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.

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

    Antonyms: lose track

Synonyms & antonyms

verbTo monitor; to track or record; to understand or follow.

Opposite

More synonyms by meaning

verbkeep informed or fully aware

Opposite

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Translations

Arabic رَاقَّبَ
  • رَاقَّبَ (rāqqaba)verb
Chinese Mandarin 監測 /监测
  • 監測 /监测 (jiāncè)verb
Danish have/holde overblik, have/holde rede på
  • have/holde overblikverb
  • have/holde rede påverb
Finnish seurata
  • seurataverb
French garder un suivi
  • garder un suiviverb
German verfolgen, nachverfolgen
  • verfolgenverb
  • nachverfolgenverb
  • im Auge behaltenverb
Greek παρακολουθώ
  • παρακολουθώ (parakolouthó)verb
Russian отсле́живать, отследи́ть
  • отсле́живать (otsléživatʹ)verb
  • отследи́ть (otsledítʹ)verb
  • следи́ть (sledítʹ)verb
  • проследи́ть (prosledítʹ)verb
Spanish mantener / llevar un / el registro (de), vigilar
  • mantener / llevar un / el registro (de)verb
  • vigilarverb
  • mantenerse al tanto (de)verb
Swedish hålla reda på
  • hålla reda påverb
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Chicago

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