| Trace |
n. |
A connecting bar or rod, pivoted at each end to the end of another piece, for transmitting motion, esp. from one plane to another; specif., such a piece in an organ-stop action to transmit motion from the trundle to the lever actuating the stop slider. |
| Trace |
n. |
One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whiffletree attached to a vehicle or thing to be drawn; a tug. |
| Trace |
v. t. |
A mark left by anything passing; a track; a path; a course; a footprint; a vestige; as, the trace of a carriage or sled; the trace of a deer; a sinuous trace. |
| Trace |
v. t. |
A very small quantity of an element or compound in a given substance, especially when so small that the amount is not quantitatively determined in an analysis;
hence, in stating an analysis, often contracted to tr. |
| Trace |
v. t. |
A mark, impression, or visible appearance of anything left when the thing itself no longer exists; remains; token; vestige. |
| Trace |
v. t. |
The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane. |
| Trace |
v. t. |
The ground plan of a work or works. |
| Trace |
v. t. |
To mark out; to draw or delineate with marks; especially, to copy, as a drawing or engraving, by following the lines and marking them on a sheet superimposed, through which they appear; as, to trace a figure or an outline; a traced drawing. |
| Trace |
v. t. |
To follow by some mark that has been left by a person or thing which has preceded; to follow by footsteps, tracks, or tokens. |
| Trace |
v. t. |
Hence, to follow the trace or track of. |
| Trace |
v. t. |
To copy; to imitate. |
| Trace |
v. t. |
To walk over; to pass through; to traverse. |
| Trace |
v. i. |
To walk; to go; to travel. |
| Traceable |
a. |
Capable of being traced. |
| traced |
imp. & p. p. |
of Trace |
| Tracer |
n. |
A person engaged (esp. in the express or railway service) in tracing, or searching out, missing articles, as packages or freight cars. |
| Tracer |
n. |
An inquiry sent out (esp. in transportation service) for a missing article, as a letter or an express package. |
| Tracer |
n. |
One who, or that which, traces. |
| Tracer/y |
n. |
Ornamental work with rambled lines. |
| Tracer/y |
n. |
The decorative head of a Gothic window. |
| Tracer/y |
n. |
A similar decoration in some styles of vaulting, the ribs of the vault giving off the minor bars of which the tracery is composed. |
| Traceries |
pl. |
of Tracer/y |
| Tracery |
n. |
A tracing of lines; a system of lines produced by, or as if by, tracing, esp. when interweaving or branching out in ornamental or graceful figures. |
