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trace definition and meaning

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.
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.
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.
v. t. A mark, impression, or visible appearance of anything left when the thing itself no longer exists; remains; token; vestige.
v. t. The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.
v. t. The ground plan of a work or works.
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.
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.
v. t. Hence, to follow the trace or track of.
v. t. To copy; to imitate.
v. t. To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.
v. i. To walk; to go; to travel.

Crossword clues for trace

- Copy outline of
- Find someone who is missing
- Follow closely
- Follow the course of art returned to the Church of England
- Locate
- Locate damaged crate
- React wildly to a very small amount
- Small remnant
- Suggestion to copy outline
- Tiny vestige
- Track down
- Track down damaged crate
- Track down team leader’s ethnic origin
- Track down tiny quantity
- Track, down in most racetracks
- Very small quantity
- Vestige
- Vestige of the first speed contest