Associations to the word «Trace»

TRACE, noun. An act of tracing.

TRACE, noun. An enquiry sent out for a missing article, such as a letter or an express package.

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

TRACE, noun. A very small amount.

TRACE, noun. (electronics) A current-carrying conductive pathway on a printed circuit board.

TRACE, noun. An informal road or prominent path in an arid area.

TRACE, noun. 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.

TRACE, noun. (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.

TRACE, noun. (fortification) The ground plan of a work or works.

TRACE, noun. The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.

TRACE, noun. (mathematics) The sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix.

TRACE, noun. (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.

TRACE, verb. (transitive) To follow the trail of.

TRACE, verb. To follow the history of.

TRACE, verb. (transitive) To draw or sketch lightly or with care.

TRACE, verb. (transitive) To copy onto a sheet of paper superimposed over the original, by drawing over its lines.

TRACE, verb. (transitive) (obsolete) To copy; to imitate.

TRACE, verb. (intransitive) (obsolete) To walk; to go; to travel.

TRACE, verb. (transitive) (obsolete) To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.

TRACE ELEMENT, noun. (chemistry) A chemical element present in a sample in very small quantities.

TRACE ELEMENT, noun. (biochemistry) A chemical element in an organism’s diet that is required in very small amounts in order to maintain proper biochemical function; a micronutrient.

TRACE FOSSIL, noun. A type of fossil reflecting the reworking of sediments and hard substrates by organisms, rather than the physical remains of the organism itself. This includes structures such as burrows, trails, impressions, coprolites and borings.

TRACE FOSSILS, noun. Plural of trace fossil

TRACE, noun. A just detectable amount; "he speaks French with a trace of an accent".

TRACE, noun. An indication that something has been present; "there wasn't a trace of evidence for the claim"; "a tincture of condescension".

TRACE, 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".

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.

TRACE, noun. Either of two lines that connect a horse's harness to a wagon or other vehicle or to a whiffletree.

TRACE, noun. A visible mark (as a footprint) left by the passage of person or animal or vehicle.

TRACE, 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".

TRACE, verb. Make a mark or lines on a surface; "draw a line"; "trace the outline of a figure in the sand".

TRACE, verb. To go back over again; "we retraced the route we took last summer"; "trace your path".

TRACE, verb. Pursue or chase relentlessly; "The hunters traced the deer into the woods"; "the detectives hounded the suspect until they found him".

TRACE, verb. Discover traces of; "She traced the circumstances of her birth".

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".

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".

TRACE, verb. Read with difficulty; "Can you decipher this letter?"; "The archeologist traced the hieroglyphs".