meaning of trace
1. One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whiffletree attached to a vehicle or thing to be drawn; a tug.
2. A mark left by anything passing; a track; a path; a course; a footprint; a vestige; as, the trace of a carriage or sled; the trace of a deer; a sinuous trace.
3. A very small quantity of an element or compound in a given substance, especially when so small that the amount is not quantitatively determined in an analysis; -- hence, in stating an analysis, often contracted to tr.
4. A mark, impression, or visible appearance of anything left when the thing itself no longer exists; remains; token; vestige.
5. The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.
6. The ground plan of a work or works.
7. To mark out; to draw or delineate with marks; especially, to copy, as a drawing or engraving, by following the lines and marking them on a sheet superimposed, through which they appear; as, to trace a figure or an outline; a traced drawing.
8. To follow by some mark that has been left by a person or thing which has preceded; to follow by footsteps, tracks, or tokens.
9. Hence, to follow the trace or track of.
10. To copy; to imitate.
11. To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.
12. To walk; to go; to travel.
13. either of two lines that connect a horses harness to a wagon or other vehicle or to a whiffletree
Related Words
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