trace
IPA: trˈeɪs
noun
- An act of tracing.
- 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.
- A very small amount.
- (electronics) 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.
- (engineering) 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.
- (geometry) The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.
- (mathematics) 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.
- (programming) A sequence of instructions, including branches but not loops, that is executed for some input data.
- (colloquial) A short form of the female given name Tracy or Tracey.
verb
- (transitive) To follow the trail of.
- To follow the history of.
- (transitive) To draw or sketch lightly or with care.
- (transitive) To copy onto a sheet of paper superimposed over the original, by drawing over its lines.
- (transitive, obsolete) To copy; to imitate.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To walk; to go; to travel.
- (transitive, obsolete) To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.
- (computing, transitive) 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.
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Examples of "trace" in Sentences
- He had any trace of pomposity.
- Dogs traced after the criminal.
- The outline of the square is traced.
- The parameter traces the length of the rod.
- The Aspy River follows the trace of the fault.
- The trace of the railway track is still discernible.
- The monologue traces the mental breakdown of the woman.
- It is not difficult to trace the reasons for their general passivity.
- The astute observer can find those few traces of the site's former railway use.
- On the other hand, his disappearance, seemingly without a trace, is a public matter.
- Conventional oils do all of that to a much lesser degree and may contain trace amounts of contaminants.
- The only hard asset US authorities have been able to trace is Fishman's Californian home, worth a little over
- “Will they then sell to me also my lord?” he murmured, wiping a thin trace of fermented moisture from his lower lip.
- HOWEVER, if that chemical smell or trace is coming from a person's groin area that is natural and is going to be ignored.
- Just before you make the final neck down remove all the lube leaving a slight trace from the neck and especially the shoulders.
- More than half of the baby products recently tested by the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics were found to contain trace levels of formaldehyde and dioxane.
- Typically, bacteria that eat hydrocarbons are only found in trace amounts in the environment, but in oil-contaminated soil, they might grow to 10% of the bug population.
- LINDA FAIRSTEIN, FORMER CHIEF PROSECUTOR, NEW YORK CITY SEX CRIMES UNIT: Investigators are looking at, I would say, a tremendous amount of forensic and what we call trace evidence in this case.