trace

Meanings

• a just detectable amount
  • "he speaks French with a trace of an accent"
• an indication that something has been present
  • "there wasn't a trace of evidence for the claim"
• a suggestion of some quality
• a drawing created by superimposing a semitransparent sheet of paper on the original image and copying on it the lines of the original image
• either of two lines that connect a horse's harness to a wagon or other vehicle or to a whiffletree
• a visible mark (as a footprint) left by the passage of person or animal or vehicle
• follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something
  • "trace the student's progress"
• make a mark or lines on a surface
  • "trace the outline of a figure in the sand"
• to go back over again
  • "we retraced the route we took last summer"
  • "trace your path"
• pursue or chase relentlessly
  • "The hunters traced the deer into the woods"
• discover traces of
  • "She traced the circumstances of her birth"
• make one's course or travel along a path; travel or pass over, around, or along
  • "The children traced along the edge of the dark forest"
  • "The women traced the pasture"
• copy by following the lines of the original drawing on a transparent sheet placed upon it; make a tracing of
  • "trace a design"
  • "trace a pattern"
• read with difficulty
  • "The archeologist traced the hieroglyphs"

Synonyms

decipher, delineate, describe, draw, follow, ghost, hint, hound, hunt, line, retrace, shadow, suggestion, tincture, touch, tracing, vestige