trace
痕迹,追踪,跟踪,踪迹
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Definitions
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- : a surviving mark, sign, or evidence of the former existence, influence, or action of some agent or event; vestige: traces of an advanced civilization among the ruins.
- : a barely discernible indication or evidence of some quantity, quality, characteristic, expression, etc.: a trace of anger in his tone.
- : an extremely small amount of some chemical component: a trace of copper in its composition.
- : traces, the series of footprints left by an animal.
- : the track left by the passage of a person, animal, or object: the trace of her skates on the ice.
- : Meteorology. precipitation of less than 0.005 inch.
- : a trail or path, especially through wild or open territory, made by the passage of people, animals, or vehicles.
- : engram.
- : a tracing, drawing, or sketch of something.
- : a lightly drawn line, as the record drawn by a self-registering instrument.
- : Mathematics. the intersection of two planes, or of a plane and a surface.the sum of the elements along the principal diagonal of a square matrix.the geometric locus of an equation.
- : the visible line or lines produced on the screen of a cathode-ray tube by the deflection of the electron beam.
- : Linguistics. a construct that is phonologically empty but serves to mark the place in the surface structure of a sentence from which a noun phrase has been moved by a transformational operation.
- : Obsolete. a footprint.
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traced, trac·ing.
- : to follow the footprints, track, or traces of.
- : to follow, make out, or determine the course or line of, especially by going backward from the latest evidence, nearest existence, etc.: to trace one's ancestry to the Pilgrims.
- : to follow.
- : to follow the course, development, or history of: to trace a political movement.
- : to ascertain by investigation; find out; discover: The police were unable to trace his whereabouts.
- : to draw.
- : to make a plan, diagram, or map of.
- : to copy by following the lines of the original on a superimposed transparent sheet.
- : to mark or ornament with lines, figures, etc.
- : to make an impression or imprinting of.
- : to print in a curved, broken, or wavy-lined manner.
- : to put down in writing.
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traced, trac·ing.
- : to go back in history, ancestry, or origin; date back in time: Her family traces back to Paul Revere.
- : to follow a course, trail, etc.; make one's way.
- : to print a record in a curved, broken, or wavy-lined manner.
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Examples
It’s such a nuisance that Friends of Acadia has a crew of volunteer ridge runners whose mission is dismantling outlaw cairns and educating hikers to leave no trace.
Both are unlikely to turn up in the fossil record, and that’s normal for trace fossils.
Wage and Hour employees failed to so much as enter five of the 10 complaints in the department’s database, producing no trace that a complaint was ever filed.
Despite a few flurries Wednesday, Washington has yet to record a trace of snow so far this January.
They also found traces of blood on the stone knife he was carrying.
Throughout all the stories of loss and pain with the Chief, there was barely a trace of emotion.
“Almost all of our human activities leave a chemical trace in the water,” says Alm.
Recently, when whistleblowers finally surfaced, the Home Office officials could find no trace of the dossier.
He mounted a Trace Elliot amplifier on the back of the truck.
And it is nearly impossible to trace each knockoff to each patient or to confirm how many were affected.
In chronic interstitial nephritis it is small—frequently no more than a trace.
They speak of a certain Norumbega and give the names of cities and strongholds of which to-day no trace or even report remains.
Against the blue background of the sky, green hill-tops trace an undulant line.
A trace of bile may be present as a result of excessive straining while the tube is in the stomach.
A trace of light had begun to soften the sky over the dome, but had not yet seeped down to ground level.