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1. Meaning 1 · noun

   An act of tracing.

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

2. Meaning 2 · noun

   An enquiry sent out for a missing article, such as a letter or an express package.

3. Meaning 3 · noun

   A mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal.

4. Meaning 4 · noun

   A residue of some substance or material.

   “There are traces of chocolate around your lips.”

5. Meaning 5 · noun

   A very small amount.

   “All of our chocolates may contain traces of nuts.”

6. Meaning 6 · noun

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

7. Meaning 7 · noun

   An informal road or prominent path in an arid area.

8. Meaning 8 · noun

   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.

9. Meaning 9 · noun

   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. Meaning 10 · noun

    (fortification) The ground plan of a work or works.

11. Meaning 11 · noun

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

12. Meaning 12 · noun

    The sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix.

13. Meaning 13 · noun

    (grammar) An empty category occupying a position in the syntactic structure from which something has been moved, used to explain constructions such as wh-movement and the passive.

How this word is used

• Everyday “Your cell phone company can put a trace on your line.”
• General “There are traces of chocolate around your lips.”
• General “All of our chocolates may contain traces of nuts.”

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