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UK
/tɹˈeɪs/
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[ US /ˈtɹeɪs/ ]
[ US /ˈtɹeɪs/ ]
VERB
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follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something
trace the student's progress
We must follow closely the economic development is Cuba
trace one's ancestry -
pursue or chase relentlessly
the detectives hounded the suspect until they found him
The hunters traced the deer into the woods -
read with difficulty
The archeologist traced the hieroglyphs
Can you decipher this letter? -
discover traces of
She traced the circumstances of her birth -
copy by following the lines of the original drawing on a transparent sheet placed upon it; make a tracing of
trace a pattern
trace a design -
make a mark or lines on a surface
draw a line
trace the outline of a figure in the sand -
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 -
to go back over again
trace your path
we retraced the route we took last summer
NOUN
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an indication that something has been present
a tincture of condescension
there wasn't a trace of evidence for the claim - either of two lines that connect a horse's harness to a wagon or other vehicle or to a whiffletree
- 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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a suggestion of some quality
he detected a ghost of a smile on her face
there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone - a visible mark (as a footprint) left by the passage of person or animal or vehicle
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a just detectable amount
he speaks French with a trace of an accent
a tint of glamour
a hint mockery in her manner
How To Use trace In A Sentence
- Police are anxious to trace two men seen leaving the house just before 8am.
- A lot of human nature can be traced to instinctive behaviors evolved in harder times. ProWomanProLife » Why am I so skeptical?
- At this point we must trace our way back, pass through the flowering shrubs and plunge into the shade of a little wood. The Education of a Gardener
- She was cautious, but Feinstein finds no trace of dishonour in the care she took to keep herself alive and free through successive waves of revolution and purgation.
- Remove all traces of rust with a small wire brush.
- Tracey is wearing a simple black dress.
- There is grassland on the natural brae of Royal Garden, yellow and green, fighting with the autumn. In this grassland, an alley wanders forward, just like the traces from a big snake' creeping.
- An almost seam free marble floor can be inlaid with tracery, borders, natural mosaics and other patterns in an infinite number of ways.
- Additionally, a polyclonal intracerebral inflammatory response may precede the proliferation of monoclonal malignant lymphoid cells.
- Ochre and red rippled across the male's mantle, in the delicate, complex traceries of which only males were capable.
