English Explanatory Dictionary

trace

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An act of tracing.
  2. An enquiry sent out for a missing article, such as a letter or an express package.
  3. A mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal.
  4. A very small amount, often residual, of some substance or material.
  5. A small amount of rain, not enough to be measured.
  6. A current-carrying conductive pathway on a printed circuit board.
  7. An informal road or prominent path in an arid area.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. The ground plan of a work or works.
  11. The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.
  12. The sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix.
adj
  1. Extremely small or insignificant (of an amount or quantity).
verb
  1. To follow the trail of.
  2. To follow the history of.
  3. To draw or sketch lightly or with care.
  4. To copy onto a sheet of paper superimposed over the original, by drawing over its lines.
  5. To copy; to imitate.
  6. To walk; to go; to travel.
  7. To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.
  8. 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.
name
  1. A short form of the female given name Tracy or Tracey.

Pronunciation

/tɹeɪs/ [tʃɹeɪs] en-us-trace.ogg LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-trace.wav

Word forms

trace traces more trace most trace tracest tracing traced

Etymology

From Middle English trace, traas, from Old French trace (“an outline, track, trace”), from the verb (see below).

Synonyms

track trail show ace atom atomy aught bissel bit crumb glimpse dab damn dash diddly glint dot spatter drop dusting fleck glimmer hint flip flyspeck grain halfpennyworth inch iota jot lick mite modicum molecule morceau morsel mote ooch ounce particle pennyworth piece pinch relish scantling semblance scent scintilla scooch scrap scruple shred skerrick skoosh skosh sliver smattering smidge smidgen smidget

Related words

test and trace tracing track and trace trace down trace out

Derived words

contact trace contact-trace downtrace fault trace foliar trace leaf trace leave no trace stack trace time trace trace element trace fossil trace horse trace italienne trace scheduling trap and trace uptrace without a trace without trace

Translations

Bulgarian: оста́тък Bulgarian: следа́ Bulgarian: смътна представа Dutch: sporen Finnish: jäämä Finnish: jälki Finnish: häivä Finnish: hitunen Finnish: hiven Finnish: pilkahdus German: Spur Hungarian: nyom Hungarian: maradvány Hungarian: maradék Hungarian: elenyésző/minimális mennyiség Old Javanese: wĕkas Macedonian: остаток Malay: bekas Russian: оста́ток Armenian: նշույլ Armenian: հետք Chinese Cantonese: 少少 Chinese Mandarin: 少量 Chinese Mandarin: 少許 /少许 Chinese Mandarin: 微量 French: traces Lithuanian: pedsaka Māori: kanehe Māori: ngarengare Spanish: cantidad ínfima Spanish: cuantía mínima Spanish: traza Spanish: indicio
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