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English Dictionary: trace	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
trace n a just detectable amount; "he speaks French with a trace of an accent" Synonym(s): trace, hint, suggestion an indication that something has been present; "there wasn't a trace of evidence for the claim"; "a tincture of condescension" Synonym(s): trace, vestige, tincture, shadow a suggestion of some quality; "there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone"; "he detected a ghost of a smile on her face" Synonym(s): touch, trace, ghost 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(s): tracing, trace either of two lines that connect a horse's harness to a wagon or other vehicle or to a whiffletree a visible mark (as a footprint) left by the passage of person or animal or vehicle v follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something; "We must follow closely the economic development is Cuba" ; "trace the student's progress" Synonym(s): trace, follow make a mark or lines on a surface; "draw a line"; "trace the outline of a figure in the sand" Synonym(s): trace, draw, line, describe, delineate to go back over again; "we retraced the route we took last summer"; "trace your path" Synonym(s): trace, retrace pursue or chase relentlessly; "The hunters traced the deer into the woods"; "the detectives hounded the suspect until they found him" Synonym(s): hound, hunt, trace discover traces of; "She traced the circumstances of her birth" 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" 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" read with difficulty; "Can you decipher this letter?"; "The archeologist traced the hieroglyphs" Synonym(s): decipher, trace
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Trace \Trace\, n. (Mech.) A connecting bar or rod, pivoted at each end to the end of another piece, for transmitting motion, esp. from one plane to another; specif., such a piece in an organ-stop action to transmit motion from the trundle to the lever actuating the stop slider.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Primitive \Prim"i*tive\, a. [L. primitivus, fr. primus the first: cf. F. primitif. See {Prime}, a.] 1. Of or pertaining to the beginning or origin, or to early times; original; primordial; primeval; first; as, primitive innocence; the primitive church. [bd]Our primitive great sire.[b8] --Milton. 2. Of or pertaining to a former time; old-fashioned; characterized by simplicity; as, a primitive style of dress. 3. Original; primary; radical; not derived; as, primitive verb in grammar. {Primitive axes of co[94]rdinate} (Geom.), that system of axes to which the points of a magnitude are first referred, with reference to a second set or system, to which they are afterward referred. {Primitive chord} (Mus.), that chord, the lowest note of which is of the same literal denomination as the fundamental base of the harmony; -- opposed to derivative. --Moore (Encyc. of Music). {Primitive circle} (Spherical Projection), the circle cut from the sphere to be projected, by the primitive plane. {Primitive colors} (Paint.), primary colors. See under {Color}. {Primitive Fathers} (Eccl.), the acknowledged Christian writers who flourished before the Council of Nice, A. D. 325. --Shipley. {Primitive groove} (Anat.), a depression or groove in the epiblast of the primitive streak. It is not connected with the medullary groove, which appears later and in front of it. {Primitive plane} (Spherical Projection), the plane upon which the projections are made, generally coinciding with some principal circle of the sphere, as the equator or a meridian. {Primitive rocks} (Geol.), primary rocks. See under {Primary}. {Primitive sheath}. (Anat.) See {Neurilemma}. {Primitive streak} [or] {trace} (Anat.), an opaque and thickened band where the mesoblast first appears in the vertebrate blastoderm. Syn: First; original; radical; pristine; ancient; primeval; antiquated; old-fashioned.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Trace \Trace\, v. i. To walk; to go; to travel. [Obs.] Not wont on foot with heavy arms to trace. --Spenser.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Trace \Trace\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {traced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {tracing}.] [OF. tracier, F. tracer, from (assumed) LL. tractiare, fr.L. tractus, p. p. of trahere to draw. Cf. {Abstract}, {Attract}, {Contract}, {Portratt}, {Tract}, {Trail}, {Train}, {Treat}. ] 1. To mark out; to draw or delineate with marks; especially, to copy, as a drawing or engraving, by following the lines and marking them on a sheet superimposed, through which they appear; as, to trace a figure or an outline; a traced drawing. Some faintly traced features or outline of the mother and the child, slowly lading into the twilight of the woods. --Hawthorne. 2. To follow by some mark that has been left by a person or thing which has preceded; to follow by footsteps, tracks, or tokens. --Cowper. You may trace the deluge quite round the globe. --T. Burnet. I feel thy power . . . to trace the ways Of highest agents. --Milton. 3. Hence, to follow the trace or track of. How all the way the prince on footpace traced. --Spenser. 4. To copy; to imitate. That servile path thou nobly dost decline, Of tracing word, and line by line. --Denham. 5. To walk over; to pass through; to traverse. We do tracethis alley up and down. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Trace \Trace\, n. [F. trais. pl. of trait. See {Trait}.] One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whiffletree attached to a vehicle or thing to be drawn; a tug.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Trace \Trace\, n. [F. trace. See {Trace}, v. t. ] 1. A mark left by anything passing; a track; a path; a course; a footprint; a vestige; as, the trace of a carriage or sled; the trace of a deer; a sinuous trace. --Milton. 2. (Chem. & Min.) A very small quantity of an element or compound in a given substance, especially when so small that the amount is not quantitatively determined in an analysis; -- hence, in stating an analysis, often contracted to tr. 3. A mark, impression, or visible appearance of anything left when the thing itself no longer exists; remains; token; vestige. The shady empire shall retain no trace Of war or blood, but in the sylvan chase. --Pope. 4. (Descriptive Geom. & Persp.) The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane. 5. (Fort.) The ground plan of a work or works. {Syn}.-Vestige; mark; token. See {Vestige}.