trace

trace is a 5-letter English word with 26 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 26 senses

Definitions

1. noun. 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.
2. transitive verb. 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.
3. transitive verb. 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.
4. transitive verb. A mark, impression, or visible appearance of anything left when the thing itself no longer exists; remains; token; vestige.
5. transitive verb. The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.
6. transitive verb. The ground plan of a work or works.
7. transitive verb. 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.
8. transitive verb. To follow by some mark that has been left by a person or thing which has preceded; to follow by footsteps, tracks, or tokens.
9. transitive verb. Hence, to follow the trace or track of.
10. transitive verb. To copy; to imitate.
11. transitive verb. To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.
12. intransitive verb. To walk; to go; to travel.
13. noun. either of two lines that connect a horse's harness to a wagon or other vehicle or to a whiffletree
14. noun. a drawing created by superimposing a semitransparent sheet of paper on the original image and copying on it the lines of the original image

    Synonyms: tracing

15. noun. an indication that something has been present

    "there wasn't a trace of evidence for the claim"

    "a tincture of condescension"

    Synonyms: shadow, tincture, vestige

16. noun. a visible mark (as a footprint) left by the passage of person or animal or vehicle
17. noun. a suggestion of some quality

    "there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone"

    "he detected a ghost of a smile on her face"

    Synonyms: ghost, touch

18. noun. a just detectable amount

    "he speaks French with a trace of an accent"

    Synonyms: hint, suggestion

19. verb. read with difficulty

    "Can you decipher this letter?"

    "The archeologist traced the hieroglyphs"

    Synonyms: decipher

20. verb. follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something

    "We must follow closely the economic development is Cuba"

    "trace the student's progress"

    Synonyms: follow

21. verb. make a mark or lines on a surface

    "draw a line"

    "trace the outline of a figure in the sand"

    Synonyms: delineate, describe, draw, line

22. verb. 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"

23. verb. 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"

24. verb. pursue or chase relentlessly

    "The hunters traced the deer into the woods"

    "the detectives hounded the suspect until they found him"

    Synonyms: hound, hunt

25. verb. to go back over again

    "we retraced the route we took last summer"

    "trace your path"

    Synonyms: retrace

26. verb. discover traces of

    "She traced the circumstances of her birth"

Synonyms

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

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in trace:

caret, carte, cater, cerat, crate, creat, creta, ecart, react, recta

Common word forms

traced, tracer, traces, tracing, traceable, traceless

Words from these letters

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