Meaning

15 senses
  1. An act of tracing.

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

    aufzeichnen, aufspüren, nachspüren

    слежкаsležka, прослушкаprosluška

  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.

    Spur

    следsled

    слідslid

    a visible mark (as a footprint) left by the passage of person or animal or vehicle

  4. A very small amount, often residual, of some substance or material.

    There are traces of chocolate around your lips.

    All of our chocolates may contain traces of nuts.

    Spur

  5. A very small amount, often residual, of some substance or material.

    A small amount of rain, not enough to be measured.

  6. A current-carrying conductive pathway on a printed circuit board.

    Leiterbahn

  7. An informal road or prominent path in an arid area.

  8. 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.

    Strang

  9. 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.

  10. The ground plan of a work or works.

  11. The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.

  12. The sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix.

    Spur

    следsled

Examples

175 sentences
  1. The police looked everywhere and couldn't find any trace of Tom.

    Поліція шукала скрізь, але не змогла знайти жодного сліду Тома.

    ruПолиция смотрела везде и не смогла найти ни единого следа Тома.

    deDie Polizei schaute überall und konnte keine Spur von Tom finden.

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  2. He disappeared without a trace.

    Він зник без сліду.

    ruОн бесследно исчез.

    deEr ist spurlos verschwunden.

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  3. Tom disappeared without a trace.

    Том зник без сліду.

    ruТом пропал бесследно.

    deTom verschwand spurlos.

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  4. Tom disappeared without leaving a trace.

    ruТом исчез, не оставив и следа.

    deTom ist spurlos verschwunden.

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  5. Tom has disappeared without a trace.

    ruТом бесследно исчез.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
mark left as a sign of passage:
Русский
By meaning 3
residue:
act of tracing:
mark left as a sign of passage:
Deutsch
By meaning 4
residue:
act of tracing:
(electronics) electric current-carrying conductive pathway:
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:

Origin

From Middle English trace, traas, from Old French trace (“an outline, track, trace”), from

From Middle English trace, traas, from Old French trace (“an outline, track, trace”), from the verb (see below).

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Forms

plural: traces
Singulartrace
Pluraltraces

regular

Synonyms

94 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • an indication that something has been present:vestigetinctureshadow
  • a just detectable amount:hinttintsuggestion
  • 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
  • a suggestion of some quality:touchghost

Word family

25 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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