trace
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Is trace a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. A very small amount, often residual, of some substance or material.Synonyms: show, ace, tinge, atom, aught, bissel, bit, crumb
2. (electronics) A current-carrying conductive pathway on a printed circuit board.
3. (engineering) 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.
4. (fortification) The ground plan of a work or works.
5. (geometry) The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.
6. (mathematics) The sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix.
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To follow the trail of.Examples: "I feel thy power […] to trace the ways / Of highest agents."; "Happy the mortal, who has traced effects To their first cause"transitive
2. (transitive) To draw or sketch lightly or with care.Examples: "He carefully traced the outlines of the old building before him."transitive
3. (transitive) To copy onto a sheet of paper superimposed over the original, by drawing over its lines.transitive
4. (transitive, obsolete) To copy; to imitate.Examples: "That servile path thou nobly dost decline, / Of tracing word by word, and line by line."obsoletetransitive
5. (intransitive, obsolete) To walk; to go; to travel.Examples: "Not wont on foote with heavy armes to trace."intransitiveobsolete
6. (transitive, obsolete) To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.Examples: "We do trace this alley up and down."obsoletetransitive
name (English)
1. (colloquial) A short form of the female given name Tracy or Tracey.colloquial
Definition source: Wiktionary