trace.
An act of tracing.
Meaning & usage
An act of tracing.
Your cell phone company can put a trace on your line.
An enquiry sent out for a missing article, such as a letter or an express package.
A mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal.
A very small amount, often residual, of some substance or material.
There are traces of chocolate around your lips.
All of our chocolates may contain traces of nuts.
A very small amount, often residual, of some substance or material. A small amount of rain, not enough to be measured.
A current-carrying conductive pathway on a printed circuit board.
An informal road or prominent path in an arid area.
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.
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.
The ground plan of a work or works.
The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.
The sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix.
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.
A sequence of instructions, including branches but not loops, that is executed for some input data.
A signifier approximated in the absence of stable signified.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English trace, traas, from Old French trace (“an outline, track, trace”), from the verb (see below).
Extremely small or insignificant (of an amount or quantity).
Where this word comes from
From Middle English trace, traas, from Old French trace (“an outline, track, trace”), from the verb (see below).
To follow the trail of.
To follow the history of.
To draw or sketch lightly or with care.
He carefully traced the outlines of the old building before him.
To copy onto a sheet of paper superimposed over the original, by drawing over its lines.
To copy; to imitate.
To walk; to go; to travel.
To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.
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.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English tracen, from Old French tracer, trasser (“to delineate, score, trace", also, "to follow, pursue”), probably a conflation of Vulgar Latin *tractiō (“to delineate, score, trace”), from Latin trahere (“to draw”); and Old French traquer (“to chase, hunt, pursue”), from trac (“a track, trace”), from Middle Dutch treck, treke (“a drawing, draft, delineation, feature, expedition”). More at track.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.