Antonyms for
trace
An act of tracing.
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All Definitions for Trace

Below are all the dictionary definitions of trace:

1An act of tracing.
2An enquiry sent out for a missing article, such as a letter or an express package.
3A mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal.
4A very small amount, often residual, of some substance or material.
5A small amount of rain, not enough to be measured.
6A current-carrying conductive pathway on a printed circuit board.
7An informal road or prominent path in an arid area.
8One 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
9A tug.
10A connecting bar or rod, pivoted at each end to the end of another piece, for transmitting motion, especially from one plane to another
11Specifically, such a piece in an organ stop action to transmit motion from the trundle to the lever actuating the stop slider.
12The ground plan of a work or works.
13The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.
14The sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix.
15An 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.
16A sequence of instructions, including branches but not loops, that is executed for some input data.
17Extremely small or insignificant (of an amount or quantity).
18To follow the trail of.
19To follow the history of.
20To draw or sketch lightly or with care.
21To copy onto a sheet of paper superimposed over the original, by drawing over its lines.
22To follow the execution of the program by making it to stop after every instruction, or by making it print a message after every step.
23To copy
24To imitate.
25To walk
26To go
27To travel.
28To walk over
29To pass through
30To traverse.
31A short form of the female given name Tracy or Tracey.

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