Meaning of trace | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An act of tracing
2. An act of tracing.
3. Vestige, trace, remnant.
4. A short form of the female given name Tracy or Tracey.
   colloquial
5. An enquiry sent out for a missing article, such as a letter or an express package
6. An enquiry sent out for a missing article, such as a letter or an express package.
7. A mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal.
8. A mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal
9. A very small amount, often residual, of some substance or material.
10. A very small amount, often residual, of some substance or material
11. A small amount of rain, not enough to be measured.
12. A small amount of rain, not enough to be measured
13. A current-carrying conductive pathway on a printed circuit board.
14. An informal road or prominent path in an arid area.
15. One 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.
16. A 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.
17. The ground plan of a work or works.
18. The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.
19. The sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix.
20. An 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.
21. A sequence of instructions, including branches but not loops, that is executed for some input data.

Equivalents

Examples

“Your cell phone company can put a trace on your line.”

“Those are the times you write it off, experience / Walk away, and leave no trace / Cause that night, love had no face”

“There are traces of chocolate around your lips.”

“All of our chocolates may contain traces of nuts.”

“The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.”

“And by mornin' Gone was any trace of you, I think I am finally clean”

“[S]upposing the NP has raised in (18), the potential bindees are the clitic and the trace of the focalized NP, neither of which qualifies as a syntactic variable.”

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