Synonyms for trace
treɪs

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1. trace, hint, suggestion(noun)

   a just detectable amount

   "he speaks French with a trace of an accent"

   Synonyms:
   lead, jot, touch, steer, proposition, prompting, shadow, ghost, intimation, tincture, soupcon, clue, wind, speck, hint, tip, pinch, vestige, proffer, mite, mesmerism, tinge, confidential information, breath, tracing, suggestion, hypnotism

2. trace, vestige, tincture, shadow(noun)

   an indication that something has been present

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

   Synonyms:
   touch, shade, phantom, shadow, ghost, tincture, fantasm, tint, tail, dark, hint, phantasm, vestige, darkness, shadower, tone, phantasma, tracing, suggestion, apparition

3. touch, trace, ghost(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:
   ghostwriter, jot, wraith, cutaneous senses, shade, touch sensation, tactual sensation, touch modality, touching, specter, shadow, signature, sense of touch, skin senses, tincture, soupcon, touch, speck, hint, feeling, pinch, vestige, spectre, spook, mite, tinge, ghost, tracing, spot, tactile sensation, contact, suggestion

4. tracing, trace(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:
   shadow, tincture, touch, ghost, tracing, hint, vestige, suggestion

5. trace(noun)

   either of two lines that connect a horse's harness to a wagon or other vehicle or to a whiffletree

   Synonyms:
   shadow, tincture, touch, ghost, tracing, hint, vestige, suggestion

6. trace(verb)

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

   Synonyms:
   shadow, tincture, touch, ghost, tracing, hint, vestige, suggestion

7. trace, follow(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:
   conform to, play along, hunt, espouse, decipher, travel along, keep an eye on, hound, fall out, describe, adopt, survey, comply, come after, pursue, abide by, be, watch over, accompany, take after, keep up, watch, keep abreast, follow, stick to, observe, surveil, line, succeed, draw, retrace, come, postdate, stick with, delineate

8. trace, draw, line, describe, delineate(verb)

   make a mark or lines on a surface

   "draw a line"; "trace the outline of a figure in the sand"

   Synonyms:
   tie, distinguish, take in, account, hunt, suck up, get, attract, decipher, thread, quarter, sop up, hound, pull in, depict, guide, key out, describe, drag, draw in, key, suck, specify, delineate, report, make, outline, soak up, run along, retrace, define, pull, get out, take out, disembowel, cast, puff, limn, follow, reap, delimit, pass, identify, imbibe, string, draw and quarter, name, pull out, delimitate, draw, draw off, line, run, force, absorb, withdraw, pull back, take up, discover, eviscerate

9. trace, retrace(verb)

   to go back over again

   "we retraced the route we took last summer"; "trace your path"

   Synonyms:
   construct, decipher, line, describe, hunt, reconstruct, retrace, hound, delineate, draw, follow

10. hound, hunt, trace(verb)

    pursue or chase relentlessly

    "The hunters traced the deer into the woods"; "the detectives hounded the suspect until they found him"

    Synonyms:
    decipher, track down, run, line, describe, hunt, delineate, retrace, hunt down, hound, draw, follow

11. trace(verb)

    discover traces of

    "She traced the circumstances of her birth"

    Synonyms:
    decipher, line, describe, hunt, retrace, hound, delineate, draw, follow

12. trace(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"

    Synonyms:
    decipher, line, describe, hunt, retrace, hound, delineate, draw, follow

13. trace(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"

    Synonyms:
    decipher, line, describe, hunt, retrace, hound, delineate, draw, follow

14. decipher, trace(verb)

    read with difficulty

    "Can you decipher this letter?"; "The archeologist traced the hieroglyphs"

    Synonyms:
    delineate, decipher, line, describe, decrypt, decode, retrace, hunt, hound, draw, follow

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1. trace(verb)

   To follow the history of.

   Synonyms:
   trail, track

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1. trace

   A memorial is that which is intended or fitted to bring to remembrance something that has passed away; it may be vast and stately. On the other hand, a slight token of regard may be a cherished memorial of a friend; either a concrete object or an observance may be a memorial. A vestige is always slight compared with that whose existence it recalls; as, scattered mounds containing implements, weapons, etc., are vestiges of a former civilization. A vestige is always a part of that which has passed away; a trace may be merely the mark made by something that has been present or passed by, and that is still existing, or some slight evidence of its presence or of the effect it has produced; as, traces of game were observed by the hunter. Compare CHARACTERISTIC.

   Synonyms:
   footmark, footprint, footstep, impression, mark, memorial, remains, remnant, sign, token, track, trail, vestige

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1. trace

   Synonyms:
   explore, track, follow, derive, deduce, thread, investigate, delineate, pursue

   Antonyms:
   miss, lose, misinvestigate, misdelineate

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1. trace(n.)

   Synonyms:
   footprint, footmark, footstep, track, trail, wake

2. trace(n.)

   Synonyms:
   mark, sign, token, vestige, record, memorial, remains

3. trace(v. a.)

   Synonyms:
   follow (by a track or mark), track, trail

4. trace(v. a.)

   Synonyms:
   delineate, draw, sketch, mark out, trace out

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1. trace(n)

   Synonyms:
   vestige, sign, impression

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1. List of paraphrases:

   traces, tracing, locate, footsteps, track, follow-up, trail, tracking, tracks, scribe, vestige, localize, sign, detect, record, footprint

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How to use trace in a sentence?

1. Van Hinsbergen:

   From this mapping emerged the picture of Greater Adria, and several smaller continental blocks too, which now form parts of Romania, North Turkey or Armenia, for example, the deformed remnants of the top few kilometers of Greater Adria can still be seen in the mountain ranges. The rest of the piece of continental plate, which was about 100 km thick, plunged under Southern Europe into the earth's mantle, where we can still trace it with seismic waves up to a depth of 1,500 kilometers.

2. George Eliot:

   It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

3. Matt Wallace:

   It's the cleanest system we've ever launched, the science community is looking for trace signatures from billions of years ago. We don't want to confuse that search.

4. Michael Osterholm:

   Understanding that the whole thesis of contact tracing may just fall on this very issue [ of super spreaders ], if you have a small number of cases, you can clearly try to contact trace all of them, and you're not wondering if they're super spreaders or not. With many thousands of cases, you're always going to be trying to determine : what are the highest priority ? If you don't have a sense of who the super spreaders are, there's no way you can [ factor ] that in.

5. Detective Superintendent Andy Cox:

   Lots of people will understandably be outraged by this attack, our efforts to trace all the suspects involved and bring them in for questioning will be relentless.

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