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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)

  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.
  12. (mathematics) The sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix.
  13. (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.

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dash

English

Etymology

From Middle English daschen, dassen, from Danish daske (to slap, strike), related to Swedish daska (to smack, slap, spank), of obscure origin. Compare German tatschen (to grope, paw), Old English dw?s?an (to quell, put out, destroy, extinguish). See also adwesch, dush.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dæ?/
  • Rhymes: -æ?

Noun

dash (plural dashes)

  1. (typography) Any of the following symbols: ? (figure dash), – (en dash), — (em dash), or ? (horizontal bar).
    1. (computing) A hyphen or minus sign.
  2. (by extension) The longer of the two symbols of Morse code.
  3. A short run, flight.
  4. A rushing or violent onset.
  5. Violent strike; a whack.
  6. A small quantity of a liquid substance etc.; less than 1/8 of a teaspoon.
    Add a dash of vinegar.
  7. (figuratively, by extension) A slight admixture.
    There is a dash of craziness in his personality.
  8. Ostentatious vigor.
    Aren't we full of dash this morning?
  9. A dashboard.
    • 1955, Rex Stout, "The Next Witness", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, ?ISBN, page 31:
      The dash clock said 2:38 when [] I turned off a dirt road [] .
  10. (Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia) A bribe or gratuity; a gift.
    • 1992, George B. N. Ayittey, Africa betrayed (page 44)
      The traditional practice of offering gifts or "dash" to chiefs has often been misinterpreted by scholars to provide a cultural explanation for the pervasive incidence of bribery and corruption in modern Africa.
    • 2006, Adiele Eberechukwu Afigbo, The Abolition of the Slave Trade in Southeastern Nigeria, 1885-1950 (page 99)
      Writing in 1924 on a similar situation in Ugep, the political officer, Mr. S. T. Harvey noted: "In the old days there was no specified dowry but merely dashes given to the father-in-law []
    • 2008, Lizzie Williams, Nigeria: The Bradt Travel Guide (page 84)
      The only other times you'll be asked for a dash is from beggars.
  11. (dated, euphemistic) A stand-in for a censored word, like "Devil" or "damn". (Compare deuce.)
    • 1853, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes, Chapter VI, serialized in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, (VIII, no. 43, Dec 1853) p. 118
      Sir Thomas looks as if to ask what the dash is that to you! but wanting still to go to India again, and knowing how strong the Newcomes are in Leadenhall Street, he thinks it necessary to be civil to the young cub, and swallows his pride once more into his waistband.
      Comment: Some editions leave this passage out. Of those that include it, some change the 'you!' to 'you?'.
    • 1884, Lord Robert Gower, My Reminiscences, reprinted in "The Evening Lamp", The Christian Union, (29) 22, (May 29, 1884) p. 524
      Who the dash is this person whom none of us know? and what the dash does he do here?

Hypernyms

  • punctuation mark

Hyponyms

  • See also Thesaurus:dash

Derived terms

  • dashing
  • (typography): em dash, en dash
  • (dashboard): dashcam, dash cam

Translations

See also

Punctuation

Verb

dash (third-person singular simple present dashes, present participle dashing, simple past and past participle dashed)

  1. (intransitive) To run quickly or for a short distance.
  2. (intransitive, informal) To leave or depart.
    I have to dash now. See you soon.
  3. (transitive) To destroy by striking (against).
    He dashed the bottle against the bar and turned about to fight.
    • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 21
      "`Silence! If you make a sound I shall take him and dash his brains out before your very eyes.'
    • 1912: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 4
      Kala was the youngest mate of a male called Tublat, meaning broken nose, and the child she had seen dashed to death was her first; for she was but nine or ten years old.
  4. (transitive) To throw violently.
    The man was dashed from the vehicle during the accident.
    • If you dash a stone against a stone in the bottom of the water, it maketh a sound.
  5. (transitive, intransitive, sometimes figuratively) To sprinkle; to splatter.
    • On each hand the gushing waters play, / And down the rough cascade white-dashing fall.
    • The very source and fount of day / Is dash'd with wandering isles of night.
  6. (transitive, dated) To mix, reduce, or adulterate, by throwing in something of an inferior quality.
    to dash wine with water
  7. (transitive, of hopes or dreams) To ruin; to destroy.
    Her hopes were dashed when she saw the damage.
  8. (transitive) To dishearten; to sadden.
    Her thoughts were dashed to melancholy.
  9. (transitive) To complete hastily, usually with down or off.
    He dashed down his eggs, she dashed off her homework
  10. (transitive) To draw or write quickly; jot.
    • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 1
      "Scarborough," Mrs. Flanders wrote on the envelope, and dashed a bold line beneath; it was her native town; the hub of the universe.
    • 2003, Robert Andrews, A Murder of Promise (page 198)
      Going out the door, he grabbed a windbreaker and dashed a note to his father and left it on the entry table.

Derived terms

  • dash off
  • gas and dash

Translations

Interjection

dash

  1. (euphemistic) Damn!

Translations

See also

  • hyphen
  • minus sign

Anagrams

  • ADHs, SAHD, Sadh, dahs, shad

Albanian

Etymology

Disputed. Potentially from Proto-Albanian *dauša, from Proto-Indo-European *d?eusóm (compare English deer, Lithuanian da?sos (upper air; heaven)). Alternatively from Proto-Albanian *dalša, from Proto-Indo-European *d?eh?-l- (compare Ossetian ?????? (dalis?, young lamb)).

Noun

dash m (indefinite plural desh, definite singular dashi, definite plural deshtë)

  1. ram (male sheep)

Derived terms

  • Dash
  • Dashnor

References


Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English dash

Noun

dash m (definite singular dashen, indefinite plural dasher, definite plural dashene)

  1. a dash (small amount)
  2. short for dashbord.

References

  • “dash” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English dash

Noun

dash m (definite singular dashen, indefinite plural dashar, definite plural dashane)

  1. a dash (small amount)
  2. short for dashbord.

References

  • “dash” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Ojibwe

Alternative forms

  • idash
  • -sh

Adverb

dash

  1. and, and then, then
  2. but

Usage notes

dash comes in the second position in a clause, indicating that one thing happened after another. It can also have a contrastive meaning and then may be translated with but.

Derived terms

  • aaniin dash (why?)
  • mii dash (and then)

See also

  • aanawi (although, but)
  • apii (then)
  • gaye (as for, also)
  • miinawaa (and again)

References

  • The Ojibwe People's Dictionary https://ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/main-entry/dash-adv-conj

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