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trace English

Meaning trace meaning

What does trace mean?
Definitions in simple English

trace Noun

— A trace of something is a very small amount, almost too small to find. We've found traces of an earlier painting underneath this one. No trace of the original material remains. The last trace of cloud had disappeared from the sky. He said it without a trace of sadness. The fact that each coin has different trace elements provides clear evidence that they were made at different places. — A trace is a line on a paper drawn by a machine that shows the ups and downs of something. The trace shows a very irregular heartbeat. — A trace is a path that tells you where something came from. We've got a trace on the call. The fox was able to follow the trace the rabbit left on the ground.

trace Verb

— If you trace something, you follow information to find where it came from or where it went. Also, both the church and the farm can trace their origins back to the 1500s. The police soon traced the couple's movements and found they had made a number of telephone calls to Paris. The disease has been traced back to some bad eggs. — If you trace a line, you draw it. He traced a line in the sand. — If you trace a picture or a shape, you draw it by putting a piece of paper over it and drawing what you see underneath. She traced the Chinese characters carefully, the way you do before you learn to read.

trace

— verb (= follow) follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something We must follow closely the economic development is Cuba trace the student's progress — verb (= draw, line) make a mark or lines on a surface draw a line trace the outline of a figure in the sand — noun a just detectable amount he speaks French with a trace of an accent — noun (= tincture) an indication that something has been present there wasn't a trace of evidence for the claim a tincture of condescension — verb (= retrace) to go back over again we retraced the route we took last summer trace your path — verb (= hound) pursue or chase relentlessly The hunters traced the deer into the woods the detectives hounded the suspect until they found him — noun either of two lines that connect a horse's harness to a wagon or other vehicle or to a whiffletree — noun (= tracing) a drawing created by superimposing a semitransparent sheet of paper on the original image and copying on it the lines of the original image — noun (= touch, ghost) a suggestion of some quality there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone he detected a ghost of a smile on her face — noun a visible mark (as a footprint) left by the passage of person or animal or vehicle — 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 — 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 — verb discover traces of She traced the circumstances of her birth — verb (= decipher) read with difficulty Can you decipher this letter? The archeologist traced the hieroglyphs

Synonyms trace synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as trace?

trace English » English

track vestige mark trail sign draw follow clue hint spoor evidence shadow footprint indication tracing touch tracks suggestion tincture print delineate copy traces scar pursue mark out imprint impression hunt ghost describe decipher tinge speck sketch search retrace remains paint outline observe the precepts line find duplicate dog behave atom write whereabouts vestiges

Topics trace topics

What do people use trace to talk about?
Language and thought Think Learn

Study
Language and thought Communication Interpreting messages

Show, indicate
Work and occupation Occupation Art

Draw, paint
Physical actions Move

Pursue
States Quantity Plural

Few, little
States Quantity Enough

Remain, remainder
Person Sense, perceive See Visible

Appear
Physical actions Move Travel

Map

Conjugation trace conjugation

How do you conjugate trace?

trace · verb

Examples trace examples

How do I use trace in a sentence?

Simple sentences

He disappeared without a trace.
People disappear without trace.
People disappear without leaving a trace anywhere in the world.
We must go back to the Middle Ages to trace the origin.
The police have found no trace of the suspect yet.
Is there any trace of the missing child?
Tom says he can trace his ancestors back about 300 years.
Tom disappeared without leaving a trace.
Tom disappeared without a trace.
The police looked everywhere and couldn't find any trace of Tom.
Tom vanished without a trace.
Don't leave a trace.
Tom is trying to trace his birth mother.
I noted a trace of eagerness in her voice.
After cleaning the windows, there always seems to be a visible trace of dirt.
Some day, the boy disappeared without a trace.
No one should be able to trace the events there back to us.
The product may contain trace amounts of nuts and gluten.
Tom has disappeared without a trace.

Movie subtitles

The City of London Corporation can trace its origins back to the 12th century.
And in the same way, without water, there's nothing to allow the atoms - the carbon and oxygen and trace elements - to form the molecules that would give rise to the chemistry of life.
Trace Evan's movements from leaving the parade and getting home.
There wasn't a trace of alcohol in her system, the tests proved that.
The police prove incapable of finding the least trace of the missing bank messenger.
Trace that call. Find out where he's phoning from, quick.
Having achieved her purpose, the woman became a statue once more, or, in other words, an inhuman object with black gloves in contrast to the snow upon which her steps would no longer leave a trace.
Can you trace that call?
You say you searched the furthest precincts and found no trace of Hofmeister?
Trace the scratches and see if you can't link them together into a word or name or something.
Can't we trace that call?
We made every possible effort to trace that coat.
I can find no trace of Elizabeth.
No station reports any trace of Dr. Glendon.
He was. He raided the Mitidja and vanished without a trace.
Trace that call.
Yes, I wonder if they found any trace of those stolen jewels.
Not a trace.
Then off we go to America, without a trace.
Wouldn't it be possible to trace that call?
Mother and daughter, bag and baggage, without a trace.
I was able to trace those attacks to their source, locate Dracula's hiding place and drive that stake through his heart.
No trace of the fugitives yet.
So interesting. If one had time. one could trace the cause of the hallucination.
I was just seeing how far I could trace my family tree.
I've been trying to trace that nurse, Dorothy Waters.
We'll be able to trace the signal.
This hypothesis rests on solid arguments How many caravans lost of missing aircraft have men lost without a trace?
Nothing. Not a trace.
We asked around. No trace.
No trace of father Cornusse.
We'll trace the gun.
I was afraid the police would find the bracelet and trace it to me then they'd be sure I killed him.
I gotta trace that cab.
But we'll trace it sooner or later.
There'll be no trace of you.
You have a trace of accent.
These faces do not show a trace of wisdom.

News and current affairs

Years of bad news appear to have passed the Germans by without a trace.
It is, of course, possible to trace the concept of universal rights at least as far back as seventeenth-century English thinking about natural law.
Puerto Rico's current troubles trace their origin to the gradual withdrawal, starting in 1996, of earlier exemptions from US corporate taxes for companies located on the island.
A recent credit card commercial depicts a father and son traveling to Norway to trace their family's origins.
Crusading journalists disappear without a trace.
The first has been around for centuries: the social divisions that trace their origins back to the European conquest over Native Americans in the sixteenth century.
If we model smell on local terms, we can trace how nasal neurons interact with scent particles, sending signals through a network of other neurons to the brain.
Can we really trace the roots of today's malaise back to the 1980's?
It is also difficult to trace back to the 1980's the origins of the credit explosion and the proliferation of exotic and poorly understood financial instruments that lay at the heart of the 2007-2008 crisis.
At the same time, the material brought back from land to sea include nutrients and trace elements that cause a boom among plankton, which in turn feed other marine biota.
One could trace its beginnings to the 1970's, when recycled petrodollars fueled large capital inflows to developing nations.
These requests range from questions about the health hazards of trace amounts of arsenic in drinking water, to questions about how best to support various forms of scientific research.
This is an epochal change of direction for China's relations to the world that trace back to events five centuries ago.
That storm will leave behind no trace of understanding if it is assessed in isolation, rather than as part of a broader pattern.
That multimedia spectacular did far more than trace China's 5,000-year history; it was a statement that China is a major civilization that demands and deserves its rightful place in the global hierarchy.
The fact that a former president of Serbia, Ivan Stambolic, could disappear without a trace in 1999 is grim testimony to the power of Serbia's criminal underworld.
But Countdown to Zero, an equally compelling documentary, made by the same production team and making shockingly clear how close and how often the world has come to nuclear catastrophe, has come and gone almost without trace.
At their best, they prevent disease without a trace, leaving little visible evidence of their crucial function.
More than one-third of Americans in 1917 could trace their heritage back to Germany and its allies.
Caught early and addressed promptly, leprosy need leave no trace.
And there were huge frustrations even when the search shifted to the Indian Ocean, as massive naval and air resources failed to find any trace of relevant surface debris.

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