Definitions for trace
treɪstrace

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

1. trace, hint, suggestion(noun)

   a just detectable amount

   "he speaks French with a trace of an accent"

2. trace, vestige, tincture, shadow(noun)

   an indication that something has been present

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

3. touch, trace, ghost(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"

4. tracing, trace(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

5. trace(noun)

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

6. trace(verb)

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

7. trace, follow(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"

8. trace, draw, line, describe, delineate(verb)

   make a mark or lines on a surface

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

9. trace, retrace(verb)

   to go back over again

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

10. hound, hunt, trace(verb)

    pursue or chase relentlessly

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

11. trace(verb)

    discover traces of

    "She traced the circumstances of her birth"

12. trace(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"

13. trace(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"

14. decipher, trace(verb)

    read with difficulty

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

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. trace(Noun)

   An act of tracing.

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

2. trace(Noun)

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

3. trace(Noun)

   A very small amount.

4. trace(Noun)

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

5. trace(Noun)

   An informal road or prominent path in an arid area.

6. trace(Noun)

   The sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix.

7. trace(Verb)

   To follow the trail of.

8. trace(Verb)

   To follow the history of.

9. trace(Verb)

   To draw or sketch.

10. trace(Verb)

    To copy onto a sheet of transparent paper.

11. trace(Verb)

    To walk; to go; to travel.

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

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

1. Trace(noun)

   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. Trace(verb)

   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. Trace(verb)

   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. Trace(verb)

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

5. Trace(verb)

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

6. Trace(verb)

   the ground plan of a work or works

7. Trace(verb)

   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. Trace(verb)

   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. Trace(verb)

   hence, to follow the trace or track of

10. Trace(verb)

    to copy; to imitate

11. Trace(verb)

    to walk over; to pass through; to traverse

12. Trace(verb)

    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.

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. crate

2. react

3. recta

4. caret

5. cater

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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. Paul de Man:

   Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place.

2. Hubert Santos:

   It's common sense. A 1975 murder, a 1999 arrest. No physical evidence, no witnesses, no DNA, no trace evidence, you have to scratch your head, I would submit, and look at it in a very skeptical manner.

3. United States:

   It's easy to talk about' test, trace, isolate' but hard to do. When you look at the robustness of South Korea response, it's a terrific set of lessons that can be replicated, the other important factor in South Korea appears to be transparent communication and public trust. It's going to be harder in places where South Korea response was mismanaged or politicized, like the United States and UK.

4. Jake Tapper:

   It's not a panacea, we can't just test and trace our way out of this.

5. Matthew Hynes:

   It was not a trace amount.

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