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English

Alternative forms

• set down
• set-down

Etymology

set +? down

Noun

setdown (plural setdowns)

1. The act of setting down something or someone.
   • 1980, Brian O’Connor, The One-Shot War, New York: Times Books, Chapter 23, p. 149,^[1]

     The [tour] bus brought them to the next setdown point, the gravesites of John and Robert Kennedy.

   • 2003, Nancy Kerrigan and Mary Spencer, Artistry on Ice, Champaign IL: Human Kinetics, Chapter 18, p. 141,^[2]

     […] lifts are an equal relationship, with both [figure skating] partners starting the lift, maintaining its position in the air, and executing a smooth setdown.

2. The act of descending onto a surface (of an aircraft or spacecraft).

   Synonym: landing

   • 1957, Lester Del Rey, Rockets through Space, Philadelphia: John C. Winston, Chapter 11, p. 62,^[3]

     The platforms [at the rear of the spaceship] will also have legs for landing—designed to cushion the setdown and also to help level off the ship.

   • 1969, Andre Norton, Postmarked the Stars, New York: Ballantine, 1985, Chapter 13, p. 132,^[4]

     The medic would have to hold them on hover and watch the radar for a clear setdown.

   • 1986, James Clavell, Whirlwind, New York: William Morrow, Volume 1, Book 1, Chapter 5, p. 110,^[5]

     You had almost no time, yet you autorotate at barely three hundred feet to make a perfect setdown on this flyspot. That was incredible flying.

3. (dated) The humbling of a person by act or words.
   • 1931, E. F. Benson, Mapp and Lucia, London: Hesperus, 2014, Chapter 6, p. 143,^[6]

     Diva fell quietly asleep, and presently there were indications that she would soon be noisily asleep. Miss Mapp hoped that she would begin to snore properly, for that would be a good set-down for Lucia […]

4. (dated) A retort or a reproof that has a humbling effect.

   Synonym: put-down

   • 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, London: T. Egerton, Volume 1, Chapter 3, p. 26,^[7]

     He walked here, and he walked there, fancying himself so very great! […] I wish you had been there my dear, to have given him one of your set downs.

   • 1907, Beatrice Grimshaw, In the Strange South Seas, London: Hutchinson, Chapter 15, p. 314,^[8]

     To see a family taking deck passage on the boat […] is an interesting spot in the day’s experience, especially when some patronising passenger, accustomed to “natives” in other countries, gets one of the delightful set-downs the Maori can give so effectively.

5. (slang, obsolete) A sit-down meal eaten by a tramp; a charitable meal provided to a tramp in the giver's home.
   • 1899, Josiah Flynt, Tramping with Tramps, New York: Century, 1901, Part 1, Chapter 6, p. 146, footnote 1,^[9]

     In Germany and England the tramps usually eat their set-downs in cheap restaurants or at lodging-houses.

   • 1907, Jack London, The Road, New York: Macmillan, “Holding Her Down,” p. 28,^[10]

     They had just finished eating, and I was taken right into the dining room—in itself a most unusual happening, for the tramp who is lucky enough to win a set-down usually receives it in the kitchen.

6. (US, slang, obsolete) A person’s buttocks.
   • 1915, Clifton Johnson, Highways and Byways of New England, New York: Macmillan, Chapter 11, p. 218,^[11]

     “If we [boys] did get caught the watchman would take the wooden end of his hood, slap our setdowns, then give us a kick and say, ‘Get out!’ […] ”

Anagrams

• down-set, downest, downset

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)

1. An act of tracing.

2. An enquiry sent out for a missing article, such as a letter or an express package.
3. A mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal.
4. A residue of some substance or material.

5. A very small amount.

6. (electronics) A current-carrying conductive pathway on a printed circuit board.
7. An informal road or prominent path in an arid area.
8. 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.
9. (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.
10. (fortification) The ground plan of a work or works.
11. (geometry) The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.
13. (mathematics) The sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix.
14. (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)

1. (transitive) To follow the trail of.

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2. To follow the history of.
   • 1684, Thomas Burnet, The Sacred Theory of the Earth

     You may trace the deluge quite round the globe.
3. (transitive) To draw or sketch lightly or with care.

   He carefully traced the outlines of the old building before him.

4. (transitive) To copy onto a sheet of paper superimposed over the original, by drawing over its lines.
5. (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.

6. (intransitive, obsolete) To walk; to go; to travel.
7. (transitive, obsolete) To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.
8. (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)

1. trace
2. track
3. (mathematics) trace

Derived terms

• trace de freinage

Verb

trace

1. first-person singular present indicative of tracer
2. third-person singular present indicative of tracer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of tracer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of tracer
5. 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)

1. (literary) Thracian

Noun

trace m (plural traci)

1. (historical) A person from or an inhabitant of Thrace.

   Synonym: tracio

trace m (uncountable)

1. 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)

1. (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)

1. A trail, track or road; a pathway or route:
   1. An track that isn't demarcated; an informal pathway.
   2. A trace; a trail of evidence left of something's presence.
2. One's lifepath or decisions; one's chosen actions.
3. Stepping or movement of feet, especially during dancing.
4. (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

1. 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)

1. trace (markings showing where one has been)

Descendants

• ? Middle English: trace
  • English: trace
• French: trace

Spanish

Verb

trace

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of trazar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of trazar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of trazar.