trace

See also tracé

English

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /tɹeɪs/, /tʃɹeɪs/

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• Rhymes: -eɪs

Noun

trace (plural traces)

1. An act of tracing.

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

2. A mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal.
3. A very small amount.

   All of our chocolates may contain traces of nuts.

4. (electronics) An electric current-carrying conductive pathway on a printed circuit board.
5. An informal road or prominent path in an arid area.
6. 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.
7. (mathematics) The sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix.

Derived terms

• downtrace, uptrace

Synonyms

• (mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal): track, trail
• (small amount): see also Wikisaurus:modicum.

Translations

act of tracing

• Dutch: opsporen (nl), nazoeken (nl)
• German: aufzeichnen (de), aufspüren (de), nachspüren (de), nachziehen (de), verfolgen (de)

• Swedish: an anteckna (sv)
• Turkish: bulmak (tr), iz sürmek (tr), izlemek (tr), takip etmek (tr)

mark left as a sign of passage

• Arabic: أثر (ar) ('athar)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 痕跡 (cmn), 痕迹 (cmn) (hénjì)

• Czech: stopa (cs) f
• Finnish: jälki (fi)
• French: trace (fr) f
• Greek: ίχνος (el) (íkhnos) n
• Italian: orma (it)

• Japanese: 跡 (ato)
• Maori: makenu (mi)
• Portuguese: vestígio (pt) m, rastro (pt) m
• Romanian: urmă (ro)
• Russian: след (ru) (sled) m
• Serbo-Croatian: trag (sh) m
• Spanish: huella (es) f, rastro (es) m, traza (es) f

very small amount

• Dutch: sporen (nl) n pl
• Finnish: hiven (fi), jäämä (fi)

(electronics) electric current-carrying conductive pathway

• Arabic: لوحة دارات مطبوعة (ar) (Levha daratu muTaboo'ah)
• German: Leiterplatte (de) f
• Norwegian: kretskort (no) n

• Swedish: mönsterkort (sv) n
• Turkish: baskılı devre kartı (tr)

informal road or prominent path in an arid area

(mathematics) sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix

• Finnish: jälki (fi)
• Icelandic: spor (is) n

• Spanish: traza (es) f

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• Telugu: ఆనవాలు (aanavaalu)

Verb

trace (third-person singular simple present traces, present participle tracing, simple past and past participle traced)

1. To follow the trail of.
2. To follow the history of.
   • 2011 Jluy 19, Ella Davies, “Sticks insects survive one million years without sex”, BBC:

     They traced the ancient lineages of two species to reveal the insects' lengthy history of asexual reproduction.

3. To draw or sketch.
4. To copy onto a sheet of transparent paper.
5. (obsolete) To walk; to go; to travel.

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

Translations

to follow the trail of something

• Dutch: opsporen (nl), spoorzoeken (nl)
• Finnish: jäljittää (fi)

to draw or sketch

• Portuguese: traçar (pt)

• Spanish: trazar (es)

to copy onto a sheet of transparent paper

• Dutch: overtrekken (nl), calqueren (nl)
• Esperanto: paŭsi (eo)
• French: calquer (fr)

• Ido: kalquar (io)
• Spanish: calcar (es)

Related terms

• tracing

Anagrams

• caret
• cater
• crate
• react
• recta

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Pronunciation

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• IPA: /tʁas/, X-SAMPA: /tRas/

Noun

trace f (plural traces)

1. trace
2. track
3. (mathematics) trace

Verb

trace

1. first-person singular present indicative of tracer
2. third-person singular present indicative of tracer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of tracer
4. first-person singular present subjunctive of tracer
5. second-person singular imperative of tracer

Anagrams

• carte, créât, écart, terça

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Spanish

Verb

trace (infinitive trazar)

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of trazar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of trazar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of trazar.