'Trace' definitions:
Definition of 'trace'
From: WordNet
noun
A just detectable amount; "he speaks French with a trace of an accent" [syn: trace, hint, suggestion]
noun
An indication that something has been present; "there wasn't a trace of evidence for the claim"; "a tincture of condescension" [syn: trace, vestige, tincture, shadow]
noun
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, trace, ghost]
noun
A drawing created by superimposing a semitransparent sheet of paper on the original image and copying on it the lines of the original image [syn: tracing, trace]
noun
Either of two lines that connect a horse's harness to a wagon or other vehicle or to a whiffletree
noun
A visible mark (as a footprint) left by the passage of person or animal or vehicle
verb
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: trace, follow]
verb
Make a mark or lines on a surface; "draw a line"; "trace the outline of a figure in the sand" [syn: trace, draw, line, describe, delineate]
verb
To go back over again; "we retraced the route we took last summer"; "trace your path" [syn: trace, retrace]
verb
Pursue or chase relentlessly; "The hunters traced the deer into the woods"; "the detectives hounded the suspect until they found him" [syn: hound, hunt, trace]
verb
Discover traces of; "She traced the circumstances of her birth"
verb
Make one's course or travel along a path; travel or pass over, around, or along; "The children traced along the edge of the dark forest"; "The women traced the pasture"
verb
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"
verb
Read with difficulty; "Can you decipher this letter?"; "The archeologist traced the hieroglyphs" [syn: decipher, trace]
Definition of 'Trace'
From: GCIDE
- 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.]
Definition of 'Trace'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- You may trace the deluge quite round the globe. --T. Burnet. [1913 Webster]
- I feel thy power . . . to trace the ways Of highest agents. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To walk over; to pass through; to traverse. [1913 Webster]
- We do tracethis alley up and down. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Trace'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- The shady empire shall retain no trace Of war or blood, but in the sylvan chase. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 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]
Definition of 'Trace'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Synonyms of 'trace'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- CRT spot,
- 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,
- DM display,
- documentation,
- dog,
- doodle,
- Doppler signal,
- 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,
- IF signal,
- IM display,
- 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,
- Photostat,
- 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,
- RF echoes,
- 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,
- Xerox