Definitions for traces

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traces trace

Spelling: [treys]

IPA: /treɪs/

Traces is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 210 anagrams from letters in traces (acerst).

Definitions for traces

noun

1. a surviving mark, sign, or evidence of the former existence, influence, or action of some agent or event; vestige:
2. a barely discernible indication or evidence of some quantity, quality, characteristic, expression, etc.:
3. an extremely small amount of some chemical component:
4. traces, the series of footprints left by an animal.
5. the track left by the passage of a person, animal, or object:
6. Meteorology. precipitation of less than 0.005 inches (0.127 mm).
7. a trail or path, especially through wild or open territory, made by the passage of people, animals, or vehicles.
8. engram.
9. a tracing, drawing, or sketch of something.
10. a lightly drawn line, as the record drawn by a self-registering instrument.
11. 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.
12. the visible line or lines produced on the screen of a cathode-ray tube by the deflection of the electron beam.
13. Linguistics. (in generative grammar) 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.
14. Obsolete. a footprint.
15. either of the two straps, ropes, or chains by which a carriage, wagon, or the like is drawn by a harnessed horse or other draft animal.
16. a piece in a machine, as a bar, transferring the movement of one part to another part, being hinged to each.

Idioms

1. kick over the traces, to throw off restraint; become independent or defiant:

verb (used with object)

1. to follow the footprints, track, or traces of.
2. to follow, make out, or determine the course or line of, especially by going backward from the latest evidence, nearest existence, etc.:
3. to follow (footprints, evidence, the history or course of something, etc.).
4. to follow the course, development, or history of:
5. to ascertain by investigation; find out; discover:
6. to draw (a line, outline, figure, etc.).
7. to make a plan, diagram, or map of.
8. to copy (a drawing, plan, etc.) by following the lines of the original on a superimposed transparent sheet.
9. to mark or ornament with lines, figures, etc.
10. to make an impression or imprinting of (a design, pattern, etc.).
11. (of a self-registering instrument) to print in a curved, broken, or wavy-lined manner.
12. to put down in writing.

verb (used without object)

1. to go back in history, ancestry, or origin; date back in time:
2. to follow a course, trail, etc.; make one's way.
3. (of a self-registering instrument) to print a record in a curved, broken, or wavy-lined manner.

Origin of traces

1250-1300; late Middle English tracen, Middle English: to make one's way, proceed Middle French tracier Vulgar Latin *tractiāre, derivative of Latin tractus, past participle of trahere to dra

Examples for traces

All traces of many a Norman castle have completely vanished.

Here were traces of what Fenton called his "frantic labours."

The action of the plough has often obliterated the traces of ancient barrows.

By the next day, more than 500 posts, and all traces of Wonderland, had been deleted.

Of the rest of the fourteen souls on board the Susan, there were no traces.

He traces the history of ideas with skill and care, and he avoids the smug certainty of many contemporary science writers.

Miller traces his irreverent and subversive streak to a psychedelic experience during the particularly sweltering summer of 1991.

traces of the French descent which the widow boasted of were apparent in Winnie too.

Meerson traces this scarcity of one-man performers back to a culture of collectivism that predates even the Communist revolution.

traces of these mishaps began popping up during her Bangerz tour, which began early this year and ends in October.