noun Download 🔗Share An act of tracing. Examples : "Your cell phone company can put a trace on your line." mark action 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 : "Because my package never arrived, I filed traces with the postal service to try and locate it. " communication service business Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal. Examples : "We found traces of mud on the carpet after the dog came inside. " mark animal nature environment 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 mark science Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A very small amount. Examples : "All of our chocolates may contain traces of nuts." amount substance Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A current-carrying conductive pathway on a printed circuit board. Examples : "Example Sentence: "The engineer carefully inspected the circuit board, checking the traces for any breaks or damage." " electronics technology device machine Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share An informal road or prominent path in an arid area. Examples : ""We followed the faint traces worn into the desert sand, hoping they would lead us to water." " area way geography nature environment 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 traces connecting the horse's harness to the plow, ensuring they were secure before starting his work. " vehicle part machine 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 organ builder carefully adjusted the traces connecting the trundle to the stop slider, ensuring each note had the correct timbre. " part machine technical organ music Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (fortification) The ground plan of a work or works. Examples : "Archaeologists carefully studied the traces of the old Roman fort, revealing its original rectangular shape and defensive walls. " architecture plan Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane. Examples : "After carefully calculating the intersection of the sloped roof with the vertical walls on the architect's plans, we could see the traces forming a precise line representing where the roof would meet the building's facade. " math Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share The sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix. Examples : "The linear algebra student calculated the traces of several matrices as part of her homework assignment. " math 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 : "In the sentence "The book was read by John," grammar analysis reveals traces of the book's original position before being moved. " grammar linguistics language Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To follow the trail of. Examples : "The detective traces the phone calls to find the suspect's location. " action way Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To follow the history of. Examples : "Sentence: The historian traces the origins of the word "democracy" back to ancient Greece. " history action 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 writing 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 : "To practice drawing animals, the child traces pictures from a coloring book onto blank paper. " art writing Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To copy; to imitate. Examples : "The student traces the letters in the workbook to learn how to write them correctly. " art action Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To walk; to go; to travel. Examples : "The explorer traces a path through the dense jungle, carefully marking the route on his map. " way action Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
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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 : "To understand why the program crashed, the developer traces the code line by line, checking the value of each variable. " computing technology Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
