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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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tittle
English
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /?t?t.?l/
Etymology 1
From Medieval Latin titulus (“small stroke, diacritical mark, accent”), from Latin titulus (“title”). Doublet of tilde, title, and titulus.
Noun
tittle (plural tittles)
- A small, insignificant amount (of something); a modicum or speck.
- (typography) Any small dot, stroke, or diacritical mark, especially if part of a letter, or if a letter-like abbreviation; in particular, the dots over the Latin letters i and j.
- 1590, Bales, The Arte of Brachygraphie (quoted in Daid King's 2001 'The Ciphers of the Monks'):
- The foure pricks or tittles are these. The first is a full prick or period. The second is a comma or crooked tittle.
- 1987, Andrea van Arkel-De Leeuw van Weenen, Möðruvallabók, AM 132 Fol: Index and concordance, page xii:
- (the page calls both "a superscript sign (hooklike)" and also a diacritical abbreviation of "er" (er#Icelandic) "tittles")
- 1590, Bales, The Arte of Brachygraphie (quoted in Daid King's 2001 'The Ciphers of the Monks'):
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:modicum.
Related terms
- iota
- titlo
Translations
Etymology 2
Verb
tittle (third-person singular simple present tittles, present participle tittling, simple past and past participle tittled)
- (Scotland) To chatter.
Related terms
- tattle
- tittle-tattle
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