trace

Meaning

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 residue of some substance or material.
5. A very small amount.
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.

observe the precepts

ravel out

search out

trace out

be attentive

follow up on

indirect evidence

lay one’s hands on

negociate

puzzle over

submit to

travel along

visible impression on a surface

rudimentum

echo sounder trace

echo-trace

sonar record

echo sounder record

sonargram

seismic trace

presumptive evidence

apply colour to

historical remains

circumstantial evidence

ensue

inquire into

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/tɹeɪs/

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

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