different between trace vs pinch
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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pinch
English
Etymology
From Middle English pinchen, from Old French *pinchier, pincer (“to pinch”), from Vulgar Latin *pinci?re (“to puncture, pinch”), from possible merger of *puncti?re (“a puncture, sting”), from Latin puncti? (“a puncture, prick”) and *picc?re (“to strike, sting”), from Frankish *pikk?n, from Proto-Germanic *pikk?n? (“to pick, peck, prick”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?nt?/
- Rhymes: -?nt?
Verb
pinch (third-person singular simple present pinches, present participle pinching, simple past and past participle pinched)
- To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
- The children were scolded for pinching each other.
- This shoe pinches my foot.
- To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger.
- To squeeze between two objects.
- (slang, transitive) To steal, usually something inconsequential.
- Someone has pinched my handkerchief!
- (slang, transitive) To arrest or capture.
- (horticulture) To cut shoots or buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.
- (nautical) To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.
- (hunting) To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To be stingy or covetous; to live sparingly.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Gower to this entry?)
- 1788, Benjamin Franklin (attributed), Paper
- the wretch whom avarice bids to pinch and spare
- To seize; to grip; to bite; said of animals.
- (figuratively) To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.
- to be pinched for money
- c. 1610?, Walter Raleigh, A Discourse of War
- want of room […] which pincheth the whole nation
- 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lecture 2:
- The Christian also spurns the pinched and mumping sick-room attitude, and the lives of saints are full of a kind of callousness to diseased conditions of body which probably no other human records show.
- To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.
- (obsolete) To complain or find fault.
- 1809, Alexander Chalmers ed. The Works of the English Poets, from Cahucer to Cowper, Vol. 1, modern rendering of poem imputed to Geoffrey Chaucer, "A Ballad which Chaucer made in Praise or rather Dispraise of Women for their Doubleness":
- Therefore who so them accuse
- Of any double entencion,
- To speake, rowne, other to muse,
- To pinch at their condicion,
- All is but false collusion,
- I dare rightwell the sothe express,
- They have no better protection,
- But shrowd them vnder doubleness.
- 1809, Alexander Chalmers ed. The Works of the English Poets, from Cahucer to Cowper, Vol. 1, modern rendering of poem imputed to Geoffrey Chaucer, "A Ballad which Chaucer made in Praise or rather Dispraise of Women for their Doubleness":
Derived terms
- pinch off
- pinch out
- pinch a loaf
Translations
Noun
pinch (plural pinches)
- The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
- A close compression of anything with the fingers.
- I gave the leather of the sofa a pinch, gauging the texture.
- A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip.
- An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape.
- 1955, Rex Stout, "Die Like a Dog", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, ?ISBN, page 171:
- It took nerve and muscle both to carry the body out and down the stairs to the lower hall, but he damn well had to get it out of his place and away from his door, and any of those four could have done it in a pinch, and it sure was a pinch.
- 1955, Rex Stout, "Die Like a Dog", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, ?ISBN, page 171:
- A metal bar used as a lever for lifting weights, rolling wheels, etc.
- An organic herbal smoke additive.
- (physics) A magnetic compression of an electrically-conducting filament.
- The narrow part connecting the two bulbs of an hourglass.
- 2001, Terry Pratchett: Thief of Time:
- It looked like an hourglass, but all those little glittering shapes tumbling through the pinch were seconds.
- 2001, Terry Pratchett: Thief of Time:
- (slang) An arrest.
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ??? (pinchi)
Translations
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