Pronunciations (2)
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/tɹeɪs/
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[tʃɹeɪs]
Pronunciation notes
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Noun
An act of tracing.
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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.
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Those are the times you write it off, experience / Walk away, and leave no trace / Cause that night, love had no face
A very small amount, often residual, of some substance or material.
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There are traces of chocolate around your lips.
All of our chocolates may contain traces of nuts.
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The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.
And by mornin' Gone was any trace of you, I think I am finally clean
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.
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[S]upposing the NP has raised in (18), the potential bindees are the clitic and the trace of the focalized NP, neither of which qualifies as a syntactic variable.
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.
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Adjective
Extremely small or insignificant (of an amount or quantity).
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Vena contracta is defined as the narrowest portion of the regurgitant jet, seen at its origin. In all of the cases, it was assumed that the MR severity was downgraded by general anesthesia because of reduced afterload conditions. In cases where MR was determined to be trace, mild, or moderate, the afterload was manipulated by bolus injections of phenylephrine to approximate the preanesthesia, awake blood pressure. The final MR grade was assigned after this maneuver was completed. If conflicting results were observed for different criteria, the reviewing anesthesiologist made a judgment as to the final grade of MR.
Through the above, it is clear that the students of the experimental group who studied the unit of similarity of triangles according to the model (4mat) have outperformed the students of the control group who studied the same unit in the traditional way in the results of the systemic thinking measurement. It was also found that the students of the experimental group have been developing their geometric tendencies more than the students of the control group, and this is due to the use of the (4mat) model. It provided the opportunity for students to overcome many difficulties by giving them the opportunity to discover data for themselves, because it allowed them to recognize similar triangles through their own thinking patterns and transition as the information discovered remains more trace than the information that is taught to students in the traditional way.
As indicated in Chomsky (1982), the empty element in (26a) has an antecedent with an independent 0-role and is therefore PRO rather than trace. Subjacency is violated, but nevertheless PRO and its antecedent can be coindexed, as is generally possible for anaphors, apart from trace (in (26c), the coindexing of they and each other violates subjacency). In (26b), the antecedent of the empty element is in a non-0-position, so the empty element is trace. Subjacency is violated as in (26a), but in this case, the sentence is ungrammatical.⁹ Thus subjacency appears to be a property of the rule Move α, not of other indexing mechanisms. If this conclusion is correct, then clearly we will have to distinguish between the indexing mechanism at work in (25a) or (26b) -- i.e. Move α -- and the one at work in (25b-c) or (26a,c).
Verb
To follow the trail of.
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I feel thy power […] to trace the ways / Of highest agents.
Happy the mortal, who has traced effects To their first cause
To follow the history of.
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1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth You may trace the deluge quite round the globe.
They traced the ancient lineages of two species to reveal the insects' lengthy history of asexual reproduction.
To draw or sketch lightly or with care.
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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.
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To copy; to imitate.
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That servile path thou nobly dost decline, / Of tracing word by word, and line by line.
To walk; to go; to travel.
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Not wont on foote with heavy armes to trace.
To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.
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We do trace this alley up and down.
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.
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Noun
a just detectable amount
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he speaks French with a trace of an accent
a hint mockery in her manner
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a tint of glamour
an indication that something has been present
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there wasn't a trace of evidence for the claim
a tincture of condescension
a suggestion of some quality
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there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone
he detected a ghost of a smile on her face
a drawing created by superimposing a semitransparent sheet of paper on the original image and copying on it the lines of the original image
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either of two lines that connect a horse's harness to a wagon or other vehicle or to a whiffletree
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a visible mark (as a footprint) left by the passage of person or animal or vehicle
Verb
follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something
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We must follow closely the economic development is Cuba
trace the student's progress
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trace one's ancestry
make a mark or lines on a surface
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draw a line
trace the outline of a figure in the sand
to go back over again
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we retraced the route we took last summer
trace your path
pursue or chase relentlessly
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The hunters traced the deer into the woods
the detectives hounded the suspect until they found him
discover traces of
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She traced the circumstances of her birth
make one's course or travel along a path; travel or pass over, around, or along
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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
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trace a design
trace a pattern
read with difficulty
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Can you decipher this letter?
The archeologist traced the hieroglyphs