Definitions for trace
treɪstrace

Princeton's WordNet(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. trace, hint, suggestionnoun

   a just detectable amount

   "he speaks French with a trace of an accent"

2. trace, vestige, tincture, shadownoun

   an indication that something has been present

   "there wasn't a trace of evidence for the claim"; "a tincture of condescension"

3. touch, trace, ghostnoun

   a suggestion of some quality

   "there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone"; "he detected a ghost of a smile on her face"

4. tracing, tracenoun

   a drawing created by superimposing a semitransparent sheet of paper on the original image and copying on it the lines of the original image

5. tracenoun

   either of two lines that connect a horse's harness to a wagon or other vehicle or to a whiffletree

6. traceverb

   a visible mark (as a footprint) left by the passage of person or animal or vehicle

7. trace, followverb

   follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something

   "We must follow closely the economic development is Cuba" ; "trace the student's progress"

8. trace, draw, line, describe, delineateverb

   make a mark or lines on a surface

   "draw a line"; "trace the outline of a figure in the sand"

9. trace, retraceverb

   to go back over again

   "we retraced the route we took last summer"; "trace your path"

10. hound, hunt, traceverb

    pursue or chase relentlessly

    "The hunters traced the deer into the woods"; "the detectives hounded the suspect until they found him"

11. traceverb

    discover traces of

    "She traced the circumstances of her birth"

12. traceverb

    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"

13. traceverb

    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"

14. decipher, traceverb

    read with difficulty

    "Can you decipher this letter?"; "The archeologist traced the hieroglyphs"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. tracenoun

   An act of tracing.

   Your cell phone company can put a trace on your line.

2. tracenoun

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

3. tracenoun

   A very small amount.

4. tracenoun

   An electric current-carrying conductive pathway on a printed circuit board.

5. tracenoun

   An informal road or prominent path in an arid area.

6. tracenoun

   The sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix.

7. traceverb

   To follow the trail of.

8. traceverb

   To follow the history of.

9. traceverb

   To draw or sketch.

10. traceverb

    To copy onto a sheet of transparent paper.

11. traceverb

    To walk; to go; to travel.

    Not wont on foot with heavy arms to trace. uE000106720uE001 Spenser.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Tracenoun

   Etymology: trace, Fr. traccia, Italian.

   1. Mark left by any thing passing; footsteps.

   These as a line their long dimension drew,
   Streaking the ground with sinuous trace. John Milton.

   2. Remain; appearance of what has been.

   The people of these countries are reported to have lived like the beasts among them, without any traces of orders, laws, or religion. William Temple.

   There are not the least traces of it to be met, the greatest part of the ornaments being taken from Trajan’s arch, and set up to the conqueror. Joseph Addison, on Italy.

   The shady empire shall retain no trace
   Of war, or blood, but in the Sylvan chace. Alexander Pope.

   3. [From tirasser, French; tirasses, traces.]Harness for beasts of draught.

   Her waggon spokes made of long spinner’s legs;
   The cover, of the wings of grashoppers;
   The traces, of the smallest spider’s web. William Shakespeare.

   The labour’d ox
   In his loose traces from the furrow came. John Milton.

   While lab’ring oxen, spent with toil and heat,
   In their loose traces from the field retreat. Alexander Pope.

   Twelve young mules,
   New to the plough, unpractis’d in the trace. Alexander Pope, Odys.

2. To Traceverb

   Etymology: tracer, Fr. tracciare, Italian.

   1. To follow by the footsteps, or remaining marks.

   I feel thy power to trace the ways
   Of highest agents. John Milton.

   You may trace the deluge quite round the globe in profane history; and every one of these people have a tale to tell concerning the restauration. Thomas Burnet, Theory of the Earth.

   They do but trace over the paths beaten by the ancients, or comment, critick, or flourish upon them. William Temple.

   To this haste of the mind a not due tracing of the arguments to their true foundation is owing. John Locke.

   2. To follow with exactness.

   That servile path thou nobly dost decline,
   Of tracing word by word, and line by line. John Denham.

   3. To mark out.

   He allows the soul power to trace images on the brain, and perceive them. John Locke.

   His pen can trace out a true quotation. Jonathan Swift.

   4. To walk over.

   Men as they trace,
   Both feet and face one way are wont to lead. Fa. Qu.

   We do trace this alley up and down. William Shakespeare.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Tracenoun

   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

2. Traceverb

   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

3. Traceverb

   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

4. Traceverb

   a mark, impression, or visible appearance of anything left when the thing itself no longer exists; remains; token; vestige

5. Traceverb

   the intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane

6. Traceverb

   the ground plan of a work or works

7. Traceverb

   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

8. Traceverb

   to follow by some mark that has been left by a person or thing which has preceded; to follow by footsteps, tracks, or tokens

9. Traceverb

   hence, to follow the trace or track of

10. Traceverb

    to copy; to imitate

11. Traceverb

    to walk over; to pass through; to traverse

12. Traceverb

    to walk; to go; to travel

Freebase(3.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. TRACE

   TRACE was a NASA space telescope designed to investigate the connections between fine-scale magnetic fields and the associated plasma structures on the Sun by providing high resolution images and observation of the solar photosphere and transition region to the corona. A main focus of the TRACE instrument is the fine structure of coronal loops low in the solar atmosphere. TRACE is a SMEX or SMall EXplorer mission, launched in 1998 and obtaining its last science image in 2010. The satellite was built by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Its telescope was constructed by a consortium led by Lockheed Martin's Advanced Technology Center. The optics were designed and built to a state-of-the-art surface finish for the period, by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge MA. TRACE was launched in April 1998 on a Pegasus rocket, has a 30 cm aperture and 1024 x 1024 CCD detector giving an 8.5 arc minute field of view. The telescope is designed to take correlated images in a range of wavelengths from visible light, through the Lyman alpha line to far ultraviolet. The different wavelength passbands correspond to plasma emission temperatures from 4,000 to 4,000,000 K. The optics use a special multilayer technique to focus the difficult-to-reflect EUV light; the technique was first used for solar imaging in the late 1980s and 1990s, notably by the MSSTA and NIXT sounding rocket payloads.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Trace

   trās, n. a mark left: footprint: a small quantity: (fort.) the ground-plan of a work.—v.t. to follow by tracks or footsteps, to discover the tracks of, to follow step by step, to traverse: to follow with exactness: to sketch: to cover with traced lines or tracery.—v.i. to move, travel: to dance.—adj. Trace′able, that may be traced.—n. Trace′ableness.—adv. Trace′ably.—ns. Trā′cer; Trā′cery, ornamentation traced in flowing outline: the beautiful forms in stone with which the arches of Gothic windows are filled for the support of the glass. [Fr.,—L. tructus, pa.p. of trahĕre, to draw.]

2. Trace

   trās, n. one of the straps by which a vehicle is drawn. [O. Fr. trays, trais, same as traits, pl. of trait; cf. Trait.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. trace

   In fortification, the horizontal disposition of the works; also, a plan of the same.

Matched Categories

1. • Chase
   • Copy
   • Find
   • Indication
   • Line
   • Proceed
   • Read
   • Suggestion

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'trace' in Nouns Frequency: #1898

2. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'trace' in Verbs Frequency: #605

Anagrams for trace »

1. react

2. recta

3. caret

4. cater

5. crate

6. carte

7. creat

8. creta

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of trace in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of trace in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of trace in a Sentence

1. Andrew Cunanan:

   There has been so much written and said about the murder, and thousands of suppositions, but not a trace of reality.

2. Michael Osterholm:

   Understanding that the whole thesis of contact tracing may just fall on this very issue [ of super spreaders ], if you have a small number of cases, you can clearly try to contact trace all of them, and you're not wondering if they're super spreaders or not. With many thousands of cases, you're always going to be trying to determine : what are the highest priority ? If you don't have a sense of who the super spreaders are, there's no way you can [ factor ] that in.

3. Tanya Smith:

   We were able to identify milk intake through breastfeeding in one individual based on a trace element called barium, we were able to time that to the season.

4. Alain Kapete:

   We'll take him to the Ebola transit center in Forecariah, if he has Ebola, we'll have to come back and trace everyone that came into contact with him.

5. Mary Parenteau:

   Often you’re balancing on one foot with both hands full of meters and collecting gear, i practice ‘leave no trace’ sampling, and I care a great deal about minimizing impact at the site.

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