trace

IPA: trˈeɪs

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.

(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.

Examples of "trace" in Sentences

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.