trace Synonyms & Antonyms
What Is Another Word for Trace?
Other words for trace include track and trail.
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Trace as a Noun
An act of tracing.
Your cell phone company can put a trace on your line.
An enquiry sent out for a missing article, such as a letter or an express package, or a missing person.
A mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal.
A very small amount, often residual, of some substance or material.
There are traces of chocolate around your lips.
A small amount of rain, not enough to be measured.
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.
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.
The ground plan of a work or works.
The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.
The sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix.
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.
A sequence of instructions, including branches but not loops, that is executed for some input data.
A signifier approximated in the absence of stable signified.
An enquiry sent out for a missing article, such as a letter or an express package.
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A residue of some substance or material.
There are traces of chocolate around your lips.
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A very small amount.
All of our chocolates may contain traces of nuts.
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Trace as an Adjective
Extremely small or insignificant (of an amount or quantity).
Trace as a Verb
To follow the trail of.
To follow the history of.
To draw or sketch lightly or with care.
He carefully traced the outlines of the old building before him.
To copy onto a sheet of paper superimposed over the original, by drawing over its lines.
To copy; to imitate.
To walk; to go; to travel.
To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.
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.
Trace in a Sentence
Your cell phone company can put a trace on your line.
There are traces of chocolate around your lips.
All of our chocolates may contain traces of nuts.
He carefully traced the outlines of the old building before him.
Word Forms & Grammar
trace (plural traces)
trace (comparative more trace, superlative most trace or tracest)
trace (third-person singular simple present traces, present participle tracing, simple past and past participle traced)
Words That Rhyme With Trace
Origin of Trace
Origin 1: From Middle English trace, traas, from Old French trace (“an outline, track, trace”), from the verb (see below).
Origin 2: From Middle English tracen, from Old French tracer, trasser (“to delineate, score, trace", also, "to follow, pursue”), probably a conflation of Vulgar Latin *tractiō (“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.
Trace at a Glance
| Part of speech | noun, adjective, verb |
|---|---|
| Pronunciation | /tɹeɪs/ |
| Meaning | An act of tracing |
| Synonyms | track and trail |
| Plural | traces |
| Comparative / superlative | more trace, most trace |
| Verb forms | traces, tracing, traced |
Trace: Your Questions Answered
Is trace a noun or an adjective?
Trace is mainly used as a noun, but it can also be used as an adjective and a verb.
What is the plural of trace?
The plural of trace is traces.
What is the past tense of trace?
The past tense of trace is traced. The present participle is tracing.
What are the comparative and superlative forms of trace?
The comparative form is more trace and the superlative form is most trace.