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trace

/tɹeɪs/

Phonetics

/tɹeɪs/

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noun

  • An act of tracing.

    Example: Your cell phone company can put a trace on your line.
  • An enquiry sent out for a missing article, such as a letter or an express package.

  • A mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal.

  • A residue of some substance or material.

    Example: There are traces of chocolate around your lips.
  • A very small amount.

    Example: All of our chocolates may contain traces of nuts.
  • A current-carrying conductive pathway on a printed circuit board.

  • An informal road or prominent path in an arid area.

  • One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whippletree attached to a vehicle or thing to be drawn; a tug.

  • A connecting bar or rod, pivoted at each end to the end of another piece, for transmitting motion, especially from one plane to another; specifically, such a piece in an organ stop action to transmit motion from the trundle to the lever actuating the stop slider.

  • (fortification) The ground plan of a work or works.

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

  • The sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix.

  • (grammar) An empty category occupying a position in the syntactic structure from which something has been moved, used to explain constructions such as wh-movement and the passive.


trace

/tɹeɪs/

Phonetics

/tɹeɪs/

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verb

  • To follow the trail of.

  • To follow the history of.

  • To draw or sketch lightly or with care.

    Example: He carefully traced the outlines of the old building before him.
  • To copy onto a sheet of paper superimposed over the original, by drawing over its lines.

  • To copy; to imitate.

  • To walk; to go; to travel.

  • To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.

  • To follow the execution of the program by making it to stop after every instruction, or by making it print a message after every step.