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Meaning Of Trace

  1. n.
    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.
  2. v. t.
    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.
  3. v. t.
    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.
  4. v. t.
    A mark, impression, or visible appearance of anything left when the thing itself no longer exists; remains; token; vestige.
  5. v. t.
    The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.
  6. v. t.
    The ground plan of a work or works.
  7. v. t.
    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.
  8. v. t.
    To follow by some mark that has been left by a person or thing which has preceded; to follow by footsteps, tracks, or tokens.
  9. v. t.
    Hence, to follow the trace or track of.
  10. v. t.
    To copy; to imitate.
  11. v. t.
    To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.
  12. v. i.
    To walk; to go; to travel.



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