noun Download 🔗Share An act of tracing. Examples : "Your cell phone company can put a trace on your line." mark action process essential ielts Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share An enquiry sent out for a missing article, such as a letter or an express package. Examples : "The lost homework was causing a lot of trouble, so the teacher issued a trace to find it. " communication service business essential ielts Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal. Examples : "The trace of muddy footprints led to the back door, showing where the dog had been. " mark animal sign essential ielts Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A residue of some substance or material. Examples : "There are traces of chocolate around your lips." substance material essential ielts Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A very small amount. Examples : "All of our chocolates may contain traces of nuts." amount essential ielts Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A current-carrying conductive pathway on a printed circuit board. Examples : "The circuit board's trace connected the power source to the light. " electronics technology device electric essential ielts Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share An informal road or prominent path in an arid area. Examples : "The hikers followed the faint trace through the desert, hoping to reach the oasis. " geography way environment essential ielts Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share 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. Examples : "The farmer carefully adjusted the trace on the plow before hitching the horses. " vehicle machine part agriculture essential ielts Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share 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. Examples : "The grandfather clock's intricate trace connected the winding mechanism to the hands, transferring the turning motion to make the time visible. " machine technical part organ essential ielts Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (fortification) The ground plan of a work or works. Examples : "The architect studied the trace of the proposed new school building to understand its layout. " architecture plan building military essential ielts Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane. Examples : "The trace of the family's budget plan on the coordinate graph shows where income and expenses intersect. " math space essential ielts Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share The sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix. Examples : "The trace of the student test scores matrix is 85. " math technical essential ielts Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (grammar) 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. Examples : "The missing subject of the sentence "The car was washed" is a trace. " grammar linguistics language essential ielts Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To follow the trail of. Examples : "The detective traced the suspect's movements through the city using security camera footage. " action way essential ielts Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To follow the history of. Examples : "The historian traced the development of the school's library over the past century. " history essential ielts Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To draw or sketch lightly or with care. Examples : "He carefully traced the outlines of the old building before him." art action writing essential ielts Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To copy onto a sheet of paper superimposed over the original, by drawing over its lines. Examples : "The art student traced the outline of the flower on the paper to create a stencil. " art writing essential ielts Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To copy; to imitate. Examples : "The young artist traced the design of the butterfly on the paper. " art action style essential ielts Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To walk; to go; to travel. Examples : "The hikers traced a path through the forest. " action way essential ielts Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To walk over; to pass through; to traverse. Examples : "The hikers traced the narrow mountain path, carefully following the markers. " way action place essential ielts Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share 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. Examples : "The programmer traced the code to find the error in the calculation. " computing technology electronics action process essential ielts Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
