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See tracé

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /treɪs/
  • An audio transcript can be found at en-us-trace.ogg



Noun

  1. A mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal.
  2. A very small amount.
  3. An electric current-carrying conductive pathway on a printed circuit board.
  4. An informal road or prominent path in an arid area.
  5. The sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix.


Translations

  • Croatian: {{t-|hr|trag|m}}
  • Czech: {{t-|cs|stopa|f}}
  • Japanese: (ato)
  • Portuguese: {{t+|pt|vestígio|m}}


Verb

{{en-verb|traces|tracing|traced|traced}}

  1. To follow the trail of.
  2. To draw or sketch.
  3. To copy onto a sheet of transparent paper.


Translations

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Anagrams


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French

Pronunciation


Noun

trace f

  1. trace, track


Verb form

trace

  1. first-, third-person singular indicative present of tracer
  2. first-, third-person singular subjunctive present of tracer
  3. second-person singular imperative of tracer


Category:French verb forms

de:trace fa:trace fr:trace ko:trace io:trace kk:trace hu:trace pl:trace pt:trace ru:trace simple:trace fi:trace sv:trace ta:trace te:trace vi:trace tr:trace

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Trace \Trace\, v. i.
To walk; to go; to travel. [Obs.]
[1913 Webster]

Not wont on foot with heavy arms to trace. --Spenser.
[1913 Webster]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Trace \Trace\, n. [F. trais. pl. of trait. See Trait.]
1. One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness,
extending from the collar or breastplate to a whiffletree
attached to a vehicle or thing to be drawn; a tug.
[1913 Webster]

2. (Mech.) A connecting bar or rod, pivoted at each end to
the end of another piece, for transmitting motion, esp.
from one plane to another; specif., such a piece in an
organ-stop action to transmit motion from the trundle to
the lever actuating the stop slider.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Trace \Trace\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. traced; p. pr. & vb. n.
tracing.] [OF. tracier, F. tracer, from (assumed) LL.
tractiare, fr.L. tractus, p. p. of trahere to draw. Cf.
Abstract, Attract, Contract, Portratt, Tract,
Trail, Train, Treat. ]
1. To mark out; to draw or delineate with marks; especially,
to copy, as a drawing or engraving, by following the lines
and marking them on a sheet superimposed, through which
they appear; as, to trace a figure or an outline; a traced
drawing.
[1913 Webster]

Some faintly traced features or outline of the
mother and the child, slowly lading into the
twilight of the woods. --Hawthorne.
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2. To follow by some mark that has been left by a person or
thing which has preceded; to follow by footsteps, tracks,
or tokens. --Cowper.
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You may trace the deluge quite round the globe. --T.
Burnet.
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I feel thy power . . . to trace the ways
Of highest agents. --Milton.
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3. Hence, to follow the trace or track of.
[1913 Webster]

How all the way the prince on footpace traced.
--Spenser.
[1913 Webster]

4. To copy; to imitate.
[1913 Webster]

That servile path thou nobly dost decline,
Of tracing word, and line by line. --Denham.
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5. To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.
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We do tracethis alley up and down. --Shak.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Trace \Trace\, n. [F. trace. See Trace, v. t. ]
1. A mark left by anything passing; a track; a path; a
course; a footprint; a vestige; as, the trace of a
carriage or sled; the trace of a deer; a sinuous trace.
--Milton.
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2. (Chem. & Min.) A very small quantity of an element or
compound in a given substance, especially when so small
that the amount is not quantitatively determined in an
analysis; -- hence, in stating an analysis, often
contracted to tr.
[1913 Webster]

3. A mark, impression, or visible appearance of anything left
when the thing itself no longer exists; remains; token;
vestige.
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The shady empire shall retain no trace
Of war or blood, but in the sylvan chase. --Pope.
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4. (Descriptive Geom. & Persp.) The intersection of a plane
of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate
plane.
[1913 Webster]

5. (Fort.) The ground plan of a work or works.
[1913 Webster]

Syn.-Vestige; mark; token. See Vestige.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet trace
n 1: a just detectable amount; "he speaks French with a trace of
an accent" [syn: hint, suggestion]
2: an indication that something has been present; "there wasn't
a trace of evidence for the claim"; "a tincture of
condescension" [syn: vestige, tincture, shadow]
3: a suggestion of some quality; "there was a touch of sarcasm
in his tone"; "he detected a ghost of a smile on her face"
[syn: touch, ghost]
4: drawing created by tracing [syn: tracing]
5: either of two lines that connect a horse's harness to a
wagon or other vehicle or to a whiffletree
6: a visible mark (as a footprint) left by the passage of
person or animal or vehicle
v 1: follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of
something; "We must follow closely the economic
development is Cuba" ; "trace the student's progress"
[syn: follow]
2: make a mark or lines on a surface; "draw a line"; "trace the
outline of a figure in the sand" [syn: draw, line, describe,
delineate]
3: to go back over again; "we retraced the route we took last
summer"; "trace your path" [syn: retrace]
4: pursue or chase relentlessly; "The hunters traced the deer
into the woods"; "the detectives hounded the suspect until
they found the him" [syn: hound, hunt]
5: discover traces of; "She traced the circumstances of her
birth"
6: make one's course or travel along a path; travel or pass
over, around, or along; "The children traced along the
edge of the drak forest"; "The women traced the pasture"
7: copy by following the lines of the original drawing on a
transparent sheet placed upon it; make a tracing of;
"trace a design"; "trace a pattern"
8: read with difficulty; "Can you decipher this letter?"; "The
archeologist traced the hieroglyphs" [syn: decipher]
Moby Dictionary
CRT spot , DM display , Doppler signal , IF signal , IM display ,
Photostat , RF echoes , Xerox , account , afterglow , afterimage ,
annals , aroma , ascertain , balance , beam , beat signal , bit , blaze ,
blaze a trail , blemish , blips , block in , block out , blotch ,
bounces , brand , breath , brief , butt , butt end , candle ends ,
cartoon , cast , catalog , catch a likeness , catchword , chaff , chalk ,
chalk out , chalk up , character , characterize , charcoal , chart ,
check , check off , chronicle , cicatrize , clone , clue , color ,
companion , condensation trail , contrail , copy , copy out ,
correspondence , course , crayon , crosshatch , cue , cue word , dapple ,
dash , dash off , daub , dead ringer , debris , define , definite odor ,
delimit , delineate , demarcate , depict , design , detect ,
detectable odor , determine , detritus , diagram , discolor , discover ,
display , ditto , documentation , dog , doodle , dot , double ,
double-dot display , draft , draw , draw up , drop , dupe , duplicate ,
echo , echo signal , edit , effigy , effluvium , emanation , end , enface ,
engrave , engross , essence , evidence , exact likeness , exhalation ,
facsimile , fag end , fellow , filings , find , find out , flavor , fleck ,
follow , follow a clue , follow up , footprints , fossil , fragrance ,
freckle , fume , gash , get , gleam , hatch , hectograph , hint , history ,
hit , hit off , holdover , hot lead , hunt down , hunt up , husks , icon ,
idea , idol , image , impress , imprint , indication , infusion , inkling ,
inscribe , intimation , invent , inventory , investigate , iota , jot ,
key , key word , lead , leavings , leftovers , letters , lick , likeness ,
limn , line , list , living image , living picture ,
local oscillator signal , locate , look , make a mark ,
make a recension , make out , manifold , map , mark , mark off ,
mark out , match , mate , memento , memorial , microcopy , microfilm ,
mimeo , mimeograph , miniature , mirroring , model , mottle , multigraph ,
nick , nose , nose out , notate , notch , odds and ends , odor ,
offscourings , orts , outline , output signal , paint , paint a picture ,
parings , path , pen , pencil , pepper , photograph , picture , picturize ,
pipe roll , pips , piste , point , portrait , portray , prick , print ,
prints , proof , punch , punctuate , puncture , pursue , push the pen ,
put in writing , quadruplicate , radar signal , rags , reading ,
recense , record , recording , rediscover , redolence , reduplicate ,
reflection , refuse , register , registry , relic , relics , remainder ,
remains , remnant , render , replicate , represent , reproduce ,
resemblance , residue , residuum , rest , return , return signal ,
revise , rewrite , riddle , roach , roll , rolls , roster , rota ,
rough in , rough out , rub , rubbing , rubbish , ruins , rump , run down ,
run to earth , sauce , savor , sawdust , scar , scarify , scent ,
schematize , scintilla , score , scotch , scourings , scraps , scratch ,
scrive , scroll , scumble , seal , seam , search for , seasoning , seek ,
semblance , shade , shadow , shavings , sign , signal , signal display ,
signs , similitude , simulacrum , sip , sketch , smack , smattering ,
smell , smell out , sniff out , soupcon , spark , speck , speckle , spice ,
spill ink , spit and image , spitting image , splotch , spoil paper ,
spoor , spot , sprinkling , stain , stalk , stamp , stat , stench ,
stencil , stigmatize , strain , straw , streak , striate , strike ,
stripe , stubble , stump , subtle odor , suggestion , sup , superscribe ,
survival , suspicion , sweepings , symbolize , table , tail , taint ,
take a rubbing , target image , taste , tattoo , telltale , tempering ,
thought , tick , tick off , tinct , tincture , tinge , tint , tip-off ,
token , touch , trace down , trace out , trace over , traces , tracing ,
track , track down , tracks , trail , transcribe , transmitter signal ,
tread , trifle , triplicate , twin , type , underline , underscore ,
unearth , vapor trail , very image , very picture , vestige ,
video signal , wake , waste , whiff , write , write down , write out


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