trace

Speech parts

1. trace - Noun

2. trace - Verb

3. Trace - Proper noun

Meaning

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.

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.

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.

A mark, impression, or visible appearance of anything left when the thing itself no longer exists; remains; token; vestige.

The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.

The ground plan of a work or works.

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.

To follow by some mark that has been left by a person or thing which has preceded; to follow by footsteps, tracks, or tokens.

Hence, to follow the trace or track of.

To copy; to imitate.

To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.

To walk; to go; to travel.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

follow hunt mark line evidence find track sign describe draw pursue trail shadow indication sketch
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Antonyms

best better band basis base circuit
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Hypernyms

mark chase line return study find

Hyponyms

ferret write construct spark footprint inscribe

Phrases with the word

leave no trace Without a Trace without trace trace down trace out trace back

Derivatives

traced tracing

Anagrams

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Examples

When you do something, you should burn yourself completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself. Shunryu Suzuki

Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own. Ambrose Bierce

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old. George Eliot

It is a thief that can trace the footsteps of another thief on a rock. Yoruba Proverb

The tree will not sway without a trace of wind. Afghan Proverb

Of doctor and poet, musician and madman, we each have a trace. Mexican Proverb

Close letter words and terms

Trabzon trabzonite tracazolate trace back trace detector trace element