ALL meanings of traced
trace
T t - noun traced 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. 1
- noun traced Obsolete. a footprint. 1
- verb with object traced to follow the footprints, track, or traces of. 1
- verb with object traced 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. 1
- verb with object traced to follow (footprints, evidence, the history or course of something, etc.). 1
- verb with object traced to follow the course, development, or history of: to trace a political movement. 1
- verb with object traced to ascertain by investigation; find out; discover: The police were unable to trace his whereabouts. 1
- verb with object traced to draw (a line, outline, figure, etc.). 1
- verb with object traced to make a plan, diagram, or map of. 1
- verb with object traced to copy (a drawing, plan, etc.) by following the lines of the original on a superimposed transparent sheet. 1
- verb with object traced to mark or ornament with lines, figures, etc. 1
- verb with object traced to make an impression or imprinting of (a design, pattern, etc.). 1
- verb with object traced (of a self-registering instrument) to print in a curved, broken, or wavy-lined manner. 1
- verb with object traced to put down in writing. 1
- verb without object traced to go back in history, ancestry, or origin; date back in time: Her family traces back to Paul Revere. 1
- verb without object traced to follow a course, trail, etc.; make one's way. 1
- verb without object traced (of a self-registering instrument) to print a record in a curved, broken, or wavy-lined manner. 1
- noun traced 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. 1
- noun traced a barely discernible indication or evidence of some quantity, quality, characteristic, expression, etc.: a trace of anger in his tone. 1
- noun traced an extremely small amount of some chemical component: a trace of copper in its composition. 1
- noun traced traces, the series of footprints left by an animal. 1
- noun traced the track left by the passage of a person, animal, or object: the trace of her skates on the ice. 1
- noun traced Meteorology. precipitation of less than 0.005 inches (0.127 mm). 1
- noun traced a trail or path, especially through wild or open territory, made by the passage of people, animals, or vehicles. 1
- noun traced engram. 1
- noun traced a tracing, drawing, or sketch of something. 1
- noun traced a lightly drawn line, as the record drawn by a self-registering instrument. 1
- noun traced 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. 1
- noun traced the visible line or lines produced on the screen of a cathode-ray tube by the deflection of the electron beam. 1