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trace

noun

1 trace

A just detectable amount:
— He speaks French with a trace of an accent.

synonyms: hint, suggestion, tint.

Roget 550: indication; symbolism, symbolization; semiology, semiotics, semeiology, semeiotics; Zeitgeist.    [means of recognition: property] characteristic, diagnostic; lineament, feature, ... show more

Dutch: spoor

2 trace

An indication that something has been present:
— There wasn't a trace of evidence for the claim.

synonyms: shadow, tincture, vestige.

Roget 551: trace, vestige, relic, remains; scar, cicatrix; footstep, footmark, footprint; pug; track mark, wake, trail, scent, ... show more

Roget 32: smallness etc. adj.; littleness etc. (small size) 193; tenuity; paucity; fewness etc. (small number) 103; meanness, ... show more

Dutch: teken, spoor, overblijfsel

3 trace

A suggestion of some quality.

synonyms: ghost, touch.

Dutch: zweem

4 trace

A drawing created by superimposing a semitransparent sheet of paper on the original image and copying on it the lines of the original image.

synonym: tracing.

5 trace

Either of two lines that connect a horse's harness to a wagon or other vehicle or to a whiffletree.

Polish: postronek

6 trace

A visible mark (as a footprint) left by the passage of person or animal or vehicle.

Dutch: sporen, nazoeken, opsporen
Polish: trop

verb

1 trace

Follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something:
— Trace the student's progress.
— Trace one's ancestry.

synonym: follow.

Roget 480a: discover, find, determine, evolve, learn etc. 539; fix upon; pick up; find out, trace out, make out, hunt out, fish out, ... show more

Roget 550: indicate; be the sign etc. n.. of; denote, betoken; argue, testify etc. (evidence) 467; bear the impress etc. ... show more

2 trace

Make a mark or lines on a surface:
— Trace the outline of a figure in the sand.

synonyms: delineate, describe, draw, line.

Roget 554: represent, delineate; depict, depicture; portray; take a likeness, catch a likeness etc. n.; hit off, photograph, daguerreotype; snapshot; ... show more

Dutch: tekenen

3 trace

To go back over again:
— We retraced the route we took last summer.
— Trace your path.

synonym: retrace.

4 trace

Pursue or chase relentlessly:
— The hunters traced the deer into the woods.

synonyms: hound, hunt.

Roget 461: make inquiry etc. n.; inquire, ask, seek, search.    look for, look about for, look out for; scan, reconnoiter, explore, sound, ... show more

Dutch: drijven, jagen

5 trace

Discover traces of.

6 trace

Make one's course or travel along a path; travel or pass over, around, or along.

7 trace

Copy by following the lines of the original drawing on a transparent sheet placed upon it; make a tracing of.

8 trace

Read with difficulty:
— The archeologist traced the hieroglyphs.

synonym: decipher.

Dutch: ontcijferen


Moby thesaurus: CRT spot, DM display, Doppler signal, IF signal, IM display, Photostat, RF echoes, Xerox, account, afterglow, afterimage, annals, aroma, ascertain, balance, beam, beat signal, bit, blaze, blaze a trail ... show more.

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