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trace

Academic Word List, sublist 6.

About 18.54 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun An act of tracing.
    Your cell phone company can put a trace on your line.
  2. noun An enquiry sent out for a missing article, such as a letter or an express package.
  3. noun A mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal.
  4. noun A very small amount, often residual, of some substance or material.
    There are traces of chocolate around your lips.
  5. noun A small amount of rain, not enough to be measured.
  6. noun A current-carrying conductive pathway on a printed circuit board.
  7. noun An informal road or prominent path in an arid area.
  8. noun 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.

Similar words

follow retrace touch delineate outline describe draw hint suggestion vestige

Often followed by

of the elements in their a element out it

Word family

traceabilities traceability traceable traced traceless traces tracing

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