"keep track" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "keeps track",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "keeping track",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kept track",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kept track",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "keep<,,kept> track"
      },
      "expansion": "keep track (third-person singular simple present keeps track, present participle keeping track, simple past and past participle kept track)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English light verb constructions",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
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          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant transliterations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Please sign in, so that we can keep track of who is here.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Normandy SR-2",
          "text": "Dalatrass: No good can come from curing the genophage.\nShepard: The krogan have paid for their mistakes. The genophage has gone on long enough.\nWrex: One thousand, four hundred and seventy-six years, if you're keeping track.\nDatatrass: It was a thousand years of peace free from these... brutes.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To monitor; to track or record; to understand or follow."
      ],
      "id": "en-keep_track-en-verb-dqChIBku",
      "links": [
        [
          "monitor",
          "monitor"
        ],
        [
          "track",
          "track"
        ],
        [
          "record",
          "record"
        ],
        [
          "understand",
          "understand"
        ],
        [
          "follow",
          "follow"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "keep tabs on"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "ar",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "rāqqaba",
          "sense": "monitor",
          "word": "رَاقَّبَ"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "monitor",
          "word": "監測"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "jiāncè",
          "sense": "monitor",
          "word": "监测"
        },
        {
          "code": "da",
          "english": "over",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "monitor",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "have/holde overblik"
        },
        {
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "monitor",
          "word": "have/holde rede på"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "monitor",
          "word": "seurata"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "monitor",
          "word": "garder un suivi"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "monitor",
          "word": "verfolgen"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "monitor",
          "word": "nachverfolgen"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "monitor",
          "word": "im Auge behalten"
        },
        {
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "parakolouthó",
          "sense": "monitor",
          "word": "παρακολουθώ"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "otsléživatʹ",
          "sense": "monitor",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "отсле́живать"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "otsledítʹ",
          "sense": "monitor",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "отследи́ть"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "sledítʹ",
          "sense": "monitor",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "следи́ть"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "prosledítʹ",
          "sense": "monitor",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "проследи́ть"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "monitor",
          "word": "llevar un registro"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "monitor",
          "word": "hålla reda på"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "tags": [
        "Mid-Atlantic"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Mid-Atlantic)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "keep track"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "keeps track",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "keeping track",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kept track",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kept track",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "keep<,,kept> track"
      },
      "expansion": "keep track (third-person singular simple present keeps track, present participle keeping track, simple past and past participle kept track)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "keep tabs on"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English light verb constructions",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English verbs",
        "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Please sign in, so that we can keep track of who is here.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Normandy SR-2",
          "text": "Dalatrass: No good can come from curing the genophage.\nShepard: The krogan have paid for their mistakes. The genophage has gone on long enough.\nWrex: One thousand, four hundred and seventy-six years, if you're keeping track.\nDatatrass: It was a thousand years of peace free from these... brutes.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To monitor; to track or record; to understand or follow."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "monitor",
          "monitor"
        ],
        [
          "track",
          "track"
        ],
        [
          "record",
          "record"
        ],
        [
          "understand",
          "understand"
        ],
        [
          "follow",
          "follow"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-us-keep track.ogg",
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7e/En-us-keep_track.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Mid-Atlantic"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Mid-Atlantic)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "rāqqaba",
      "sense": "monitor",
      "word": "رَاقَّبَ"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "monitor",
      "word": "監測"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "jiāncè",
      "sense": "monitor",
      "word": "监测"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "english": "over",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "monitor",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "have/holde overblik"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "monitor",
      "word": "have/holde rede på"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "monitor",
      "word": "seurata"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "monitor",
      "word": "garder un suivi"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "monitor",
      "word": "verfolgen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "monitor",
      "word": "nachverfolgen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "monitor",
      "word": "im Auge behalten"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "parakolouthó",
      "sense": "monitor",
      "word": "παρακολουθώ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "otsléživatʹ",
      "sense": "monitor",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "отсле́живать"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "otsledítʹ",
      "sense": "monitor",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "отследи́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sledítʹ",
      "sense": "monitor",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "следи́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "prosledítʹ",
      "sense": "monitor",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "проследи́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "monitor",
      "word": "llevar un registro"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "monitor",
      "word": "hålla reda på"
    }
  ],
  "word": "keep track"
}