Meaning

An act of tracing..

Definitions by Sense

1. An act of tracing.
2. An enquiry sent out for a missing article, such as a letter or an express package.
3. A mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal.
4. A very small amount, often residual, of some substance or material.
5. (electronics) A current-carrying conductive pathway on a printed circuit board.
6. An informal road or prominent path in an arid area.
7. 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.
8. (engineering) 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.

Example Sentences

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.

Vena contracta is defined as the narrowest portion of the regurgitant jet, seen at its origin. In all of the cases, it was assumed that the MR severity was downgraded by general anesthesia because of reduced afterload conditions. In cases where MR was determined to be trace, mild, or moderate, the afterload was manipulated by bolus injections of phenylephrine to approximate the preanesthesia, awake blood pressure. The final MR grade was assigned after this maneuver was completed. If conflicting results were observed for different criteria, the reviewing anesthesiologist made a judgment as to the final grade of MR.

Word Forms

• traces
• more trace
• most trace
• tracest
• tracing
• traced

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