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Trace

Meanings and phrases

trace

Pronunciation American British Australian Indian
n.
  1. a just detectable amount; hint; suggestion
  2. an indication that something has been present; vestige; tincture; shadow
  3. a suggestion of some quality; touch; ghost
  4. either of two lines that connect a horse's harness to a wagon or other vehicle or to a whiffletree
  5. a drawing created by superimposing a semitransparent sheet of paper on the original image and copying on it the lines of the original image; tracing
  6. a visible mark (as a footprint) left by the passage of person or animal or vehicle

trace

Pronunciation American British Australian Indian
v.
  1. follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something; follow
  2. make a mark or lines on a surface; draw; line; describe; delineate
  3. pursue or chase relentlessly; hound; hunt
  4. to go back over again; retrace
  5. read with difficulty; decipher
  6. discover traces of
  7. make one's course or travel along a path; travel or pass over, around, or along
  8. copy by following the lines of the original drawing on a transparent sheet placed upon it; make a tracing of

explosive trace detection

Pronunciation American British Australian Indian
n.
  1. a system for screening luggage in airports; an agent passes a swab around or inside luggage and then runs the swab through a machine that can detect trace amounts of explosives; ETD

memory trace

Pronunciation American British Australian Indian
n.
  1. a postulated biochemical change (presumably in neural tissue) that represents a memory; engram

trace detector

Pronunciation American British Australian Indian
n.
  1. a screening device for traces of explosives; used at airline terminals

trace element

Pronunciation American British Australian Indian
n.
  1. an element that occurs at very small quantities in the body but is nonetheless important for many biological processes

trace program

Pronunciation American British Australian Indian
n.
  1. a utility program that exhibits the sequence and results of executing the instructions in another program

no trace

Pronunciation American British Australian Indian
E.g.
  • There is almost no trace left of the station.
  • There is no trace of a sutural channel.
  • "Of Nietzsche imitation no trace", says a contemporary review.

trace amounts

Pronunciation American British Australian Indian
E.g.
  • It occurs in trace amounts in anaerobic environments.
  • The other simple alcohols are formed in only trace amounts.
  • Pancetta contains trace amounts of carbohydrates and no dietary fibre.

without a trace

Pronunciation American British Australian Indian
E.g.
  • The surface is polished, without a trace of striae.
  • Apparently all three had foundered without a trace.

trace back

Pronunciation American British Australian Indian
E.g.
  • Families and historians can trace back genealogies and consult with professional staff.
  • They trace back from slaves (mostly Angolan), brought to Brazil in the seventeenth century.
  • Certain extreme sports clearly trace back to other extreme sports, or combinations thereof.

trace elements

Pronunciation American British Australian Indian
E.g.
  • These trace elements derive mainly from minerals and ions in the ground.
  • His interest in trace elements led him to study their effect on the human body.
  • The concentrations of other trace elements vary as well according to the kind of coal combusted to form it.

trace their origins

Pronunciation American British Australian Indian
E.g.
  • The Nri people belong to the Umueri clans who trace their origins to Eri.
  • In fact, the Ana trace their origins to Ife, and their dialect is also called Ife, which has about 210,000 speakers.
  • Saint Thomas Christians in India trace their origins to the evangelistic activity of Thomas the Apostle in the 1st century.

trace their ancestry

Pronunciation American British Australian Indian
E.g.
  • Another Bethlehem clan, al-Anatreh, also trace their ancestry to the Ghassanids.
  • Many Americans with the last name "Storm" or "Storms" can trace their ancestry to him.
  • Families worldwide have the surname "Alcaraz" may trace their ancestry to this part of Spain.

trace its roots

Pronunciation American British Australian Indian
E.g.
  • The Armenian Apostolic Church can trace its roots back to the 3rd and 4th centuries.
  • The current newspaper can trace its roots to the "Bowling Green Democrat" founded in 1854.
  • The company was incorporated in 1924 but claims it can trace its roots to the 16th century.

trace their roots

Pronunciation American British Australian Indian
E.g.
  • Various notable Philippine artists trace their roots from Iloilo.
  • Most Protestant groups trace their roots to American Congregationalist missionaries.
  • Today, the vast majority of residents of Xiro Chorio trace their roots to Asia Minor.

trace fossils

Pronunciation American British Australian Indian
E.g.
  • As such, they can be broadly considered to be trace fossils.
  • However, these reported trace fossils are now regarded to be nonbiogenic pseudofossils.
  • These types of fossil are called trace fossils or "ichnofossils", as opposed to "body fossils".

trace its origins

Pronunciation American British Australian Indian
E.g.
  • Banks DIH Banks DIH Ltd. is a publicly traded food and beverage in Guyana that can trace its origins back to 1840.
  • The F-15 can trace its origins to the early Vietnam War, when the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Navy fought each other over future tactical aircraft.
  • Fullerton Municipal Airport can trace its origins to 1913 when barnstormers and crop dusters used the former pig farm as a makeshift landing strip.
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