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Trace

Noun

Definitionen

1.NounAn act of tracing.
"Your cell phone company can put a trace on your line."
2.NounAn enquiry sent out for a missing article, such as a letter or an express package.
3.NounA mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal.
4.NounA very small amount, often residual, of some substance or material.
"There are traces of chocolate around your lips.; All of our chocolates may contain traces of nuts."
5.NounA small amount of rain, not enough to be measured.
6.NounA current-carrying conductive pathway on a printed circuit board.
7.NounAn informal road or prominent path in an arid area.
8.NounOne 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.
9.NounA 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.
10.NounThe ground plan of a work or works.
11.NounThe intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.
12.NounThe sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix.
13.NounAn 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.
14.NounA sequence of instructions, including branches but not loops, that is executed for some input data.
15.NounA signifier approximated in the absence of stable signified.
16.AdjectiveExtremely small or insignificant (of an amount or quantity).
17.VerbTo follow the trail of.
18.VerbTo follow the history of.
19.VerbTo draw or sketch lightly or with care.
"He carefully traced the outlines of the old building before him."
20.VerbTo copy onto a sheet of paper superimposed over the original, by drawing over its lines.
21.VerbTo copy; to imitate.
22.VerbTo walk; to go; to travel.
23.VerbTo walk over; to pass through; to traverse.
24.VerbTo follow the execution of the program by making it to stop after every instruction, or by making it print a message after every step.
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