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

Derived terms

• downtrace, uptrace

Translations

act of tracing

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) (tākībetmek)

mark left as a sign of passage

Arabic: أثر (ar) ('athar) Chinese: Mandarin: 痕跡 (cmn), 痕迹 (cmn) (hénjì) Croatian: trag (hr) m. Czech: stopa (cs) f. French: trace (fr) f.

Greek: ίχνος (el) (íkhnos) n. Italian: orma (it) Japanese: 跡 (ato) Portuguese: vestígio (pt) m., rastro (pt) m. Romanian: urmă (ro) Russian: след (ru) (sled) m.

very small amount

(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

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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.

Translations

to draw or sketch

Portuguese: traçar (pt)

Related terms

• tracing

Anagrams

• caret
• cater
• crate
• react
• recta

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Pronunciation

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• IPA: /tʁas/, 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.