Слово англійською: trace

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trace

verb
/treɪs/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they trace
/treɪs/
he / she / it traces
/ˈtreɪsɪz/
past simple traced
/treɪst/
past participle traced
/treɪst/
-ing form tracing
/ˈtreɪsɪŋ/
  1. trace somebody/something (to something) to find or discover somebody/something by looking carefully for them/it synonym track down
    • We finally traced him to an address in Chicago.
    • I have been unable to trace the letter you mentioned.
    see also contact tracing
  2. trace something (back) (to something) to find the origin or cause of something
    • She could trace her family tree back to the 16th century.
    • The leak was eventually traced to a broken seal.
    • The police traced the call (= used special electronic equipment to find out who made the phone call) to her ex-husband's number.
  3. trace something (from something) (to something) to describe a process or the development of something
    • Her book traces the town's history from Saxon times to the present day.
  4. trace something (out) to draw a line or lines on a surface
    • She traced a line in the sand.
  5. trace something to follow the shape or outline of something
    • He traced the route on the map.
    • A tear traced a path down her cheek.
    • She lightly traced the outline of his face with her finger.
  6. trace something to copy a map, drawing, etc. by drawing on tracing paper (= paper that you can see through) placed over it
  7. Word Originverb Middle English (first recorded as a noun in the sense ‘path that someone or something takes’): from Old French trace (noun), tracier (verb), based on Latin tractus ‘drawing, draught’, from trahere ‘draw, pull’.
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