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scrap
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sk?æp/
- Rhymes: -æp
Etymology 1
Middle English scrappe, from Old Norse skrap, from skrapa (“to scrape, scratch”), from Proto-Germanic *skrap?n?, *skrepan? (“to scrape, scratch”), from Proto-Indo-European *skreb-, *skrep- (“to engrave”)
Noun
scrap (plural scraps)
- A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
- 1852, Thomas De Quincey, Sir William Hamilton (published in Hogg's Instructor)
- I have no materials — not a scrap.
- I found a scrap of cloth to patch the hole.
- 1852, Thomas De Quincey, Sir William Hamilton (published in Hogg's Instructor)
- (usually in the plural) Leftover food.
- Give the scraps to the dogs and watch them fight.
- The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat.
- pork scraps
- (uncountable) Discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk.
- (Britain, in the plural) A piece of deep-fried batter left over from frying fish, sometimes sold with chips.
- (ethnic slur, offensive) A Hispanic criminal, especially a Mexican or one affiliated with the Sureno gang.
- (obsolete) A snare for catching birds.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
scrap (third-person singular simple present scraps, present participle scrapping, simple past and past participle scrapped)
- (transitive) To discard.
- (transitive, of a project or plan) To stop working on indefinitely.
- (intransitive) To scrapbook; to create scrapbooks.
- (transitive) To dispose of at a scrapyard.
- (transitive) To make into scrap.
Derived terms
- scrapper
Translations
Etymology 2
Unknown
Noun
scrap (plural scraps)
- A fight, tussle, skirmish.
- We got in a little scrap over who should pay the bill.
Translations
Verb
scrap (third-person singular simple present scraps, present participle scrapping, simple past and past participle scrapped)
- to fight
Translations
Anagrams
- APCRs, Carps, RSPCA, carps, craps, parcs, pracs, scarp
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trace
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?e?s/, [t??e?s]
- Rhymes: -e?s
Etymology 1
From Middle English trace, traas, from Old French trace (“an outline, track, trace”), from the verb (see below).
Noun
trace (countable and uncountable, plural traces)
- An act of tracing.
- An enquiry sent out for a missing article, such as a letter or an express package.
- A mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal.
- A residue of some substance or material.
- A very small amount.
- (electronics) A current-carrying conductive pathway on a printed circuit board.
- An informal road or prominent path in an arid area.
- 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.
- (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.
- (fortification) The ground plan of a work or works.
- (geometry) The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.
- (mathematics) The sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix.
- (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.
Synonyms
- (mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal): track, trail
- (small amount): see also Thesaurus:modicum.
Derived terms
- downtrace, uptrace
- without trace, without a trace
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English tracen, from Old French tracer, trasser (“to delineate, score, trace", also, "to follow, pursue”), probably a conflation of Vulgar Latin *tracti? (“to delineate, score, trace”), from Latin trahere (“to draw”); and Old French traquer (“to chase, hunt, pursue”), from trac (“a track, trace”), from Middle Dutch treck, treke (“a drawing, draft, delineation, feature, expedition”). More at track.
Verb
trace (third-person singular simple present traces, present participle tracing, simple past and past participle traced)
- (transitive) To follow the trail of.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Cowper to this entry?)
- To follow the history of.
- 1684, Thomas Burnet, The Sacred Theory of the Earth
- You may trace the deluge quite round the globe.
- 1684, Thomas Burnet, The Sacred Theory of the Earth
- (transitive) To draw or sketch lightly or with care.
- He carefully traced the outlines of the old building before him.
- (transitive) To copy onto a sheet of paper superimposed over the original, by drawing over its lines.
- (transitive, obsolete) To copy; to imitate.
- 1647, John Denham, To Sir Richard Fanshaw
- That servile path thou nobly dost decline, / Of tracing word by word, and line by line.
- 1647, John Denham, To Sir Richard Fanshaw
- (intransitive, obsolete) To walk; to go; to travel.
- (transitive, obsolete) To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.
- (computing, transitive) 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.
Related terms
- tracing
Translations
Anagrams
- Carte, acter, caret, carte, cater, crate, creat, react, recta, reäct
French
Etymology
From the verb tracer.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?as/
- Rhymes: -as
Noun
trace f (plural traces)
- trace
- track
- (mathematics) trace
Derived terms
- trace de freinage
Verb
trace
- first-person singular present indicative of tracer
- third-person singular present indicative of tracer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of tracer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of tracer
- second-person singular imperative of tracer
Further reading
- “trace” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- caret, carte, créât, écart, terça
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?tra.t??e/
- Hyphenation: trà?ce
Etymology 1
From Latin thr?cem, accusative form of thr?x, from Ancient Greek ???? (Thrâix).
Adjective
trace (plural traci)
- (literary) Thracian
Noun
trace m (plural traci)
- (historical) A person from or an inhabitant of Thrace.
- Synonym: tracio
trace m (uncountable)
- The Thracian language.
Related terms
- tracio
- Tracia
Etymology 2
From Latin thraecem, accusative form of thraex, from Ancient Greek ???? (Thrâix).
Noun
trace m (plural traci)
- (historical, Ancient Rome) A gladiator bearing Thracian equipment.
Anagrams
- carte, certa, cetra
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old French trace, from tracer, tracier.
Alternative forms
- traas, trase
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?tra?s(?)/
Noun
trace (plural traces) (mostly Late ME)
- A trail, track or road; a pathway or route:
- An track that isn't demarcated; an informal pathway.
- A trace; a trail of evidence left of something's presence.
- One's lifepath or decisions; one's chosen actions.
- Stepping or movement of feet, especially during dancing.
- (rare, heraldry) A straight mark.
Derived terms
- tracen
- tracyng
Descendants
- English: trace
- Scots: trace
References
- “tr?ce, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-18.
Etymology 2
Verb
trace
- Alternative form of tracen
Old French
Etymology
From the verb tracier, tracer.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?tra.t?s?/
Noun
trace f (oblique plural traces, nominative singular trace, nominative plural traces)
- trace (markings showing where one has been)
Descendants
- ? Middle English: trace
- English: trace
- French: trace
Spanish
Verb
trace
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of trazar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of trazar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of trazar.
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