trace

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. An act of tracing.
2. An enquiry sent out for a missing article, such as a letter or an express package.
3. A mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal.
4. A very small amount, often residual, of some substance or material.
5. A very small amount, often residual, of some substance or material.
6. A current-carrying conductive pathway on a printed circuit board.
7. An informal road or prominent path in an arid area.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. The ground plan of a work or works.
11. The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.
12. The sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix.
13. 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.
14. A sequence of instructions, including branches but not loops, that is executed for some input data.

Adj

Extremely small or insignificant (of an amount or quantity).

Verb

1. (transitive) To follow the trail of.
2. To follow the history of.
3. (transitive) To draw or sketch lightly or with care.
4. (transitive) To copy onto a sheet of paper superimposed over the original, by drawing over its lines.
5. (obsolete, transitive) To copy; to imitate.
6. (intransitive, obsolete) To walk; to go; to travel.
7. (obsolete, transitive) To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.
8. (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.

Concepts

trace

tracer

calquer

empreinte

suivre

dessiner

impression

vestige

piste

traces

décalquer

tirer

retracer

esquisser

indice

marché aux puces

ombre

photographier

pister

pollen

rattraper

reconstituer

recouvrer

regagner

reprendre

reproduire

saisir

suggestion

toucher

transcrire

traquer

dupliquer

localiser

projection horizontale

quêter

🔍

reconquérir

signes

traçabilité

traçage

traits

vestiges

marques

trait marquant

pistes

enregistrement de signaux acoustiques

trace sismique

aspect

retrouver la trace

chasse

chasser

Synonymes

track

mark

vestige

trail

sign

draw

clue

follow

hint

spoor

evidence

shadow

footprint

👣

indication

touch

tracing

tracks

suggestion

print

delineate

copy

tincture

pursue

mark out

imprint

describe

decipher

hunt

traces

scar

impression

ghost

👻

observe the precepts

atom

outline

paint

dog

🐕

behave

remains

tinge

line

find

🔍

sketch

search

duplicate

retrace

speck

colour

plot

point

Traductions

Spur

traccia

rastro

nachspüren

spoor

huella

👣

rastrear

tracciare

indicio

traza

vestígio

ίχνος

vestigio

afdruk

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/tɹeɪs/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: trace

Hérité de moyen anglais: tracen

In summary

From Middle English trace, traas, from Old French trace (“an outline, track, trace”), from the verb (see below).