English Dictionary

trace

IPA（発音記号）

/tɹeɪs/

動詞

他動詞 廃用 自動詞

(transitive) To follow the trail of. / To follow the history of. / (transitive) To draw or sketch lightly or with care.

日本語の意味

足跡や痕跡をたどる / 歴史や経緯をたどる / （軽く）なぞって描く、スケッチする

The detective tried to trace the missing hiker's route through the dense forest.

探偵は濃い森の中で行方不明のハイカーの足跡をたどろうとした。

意味（1）

(transitive) To follow the trail of.

I feel thy power […] to trace the ways / Of highest agents.

意味（2）

To follow the history of.

You may trace the deluge quite round the globe.

意味（3）

(transitive) To draw or sketch lightly or with care.

He carefully traced the outlines of the old building before him.

意味（4）

(transitive) To copy onto a sheet of paper superimposed over the original, by drawing over its lines.

意味（5）

(transitive, obsolete) To copy; to imitate.

That servile path thou nobly dost decline, / Of tracing word by word, and line by line.

意味（6）

(intransitive, obsolete) To walk; to go; to travel.

Not wont on foote with heavy armes to trace.

意味（7）

(transitive, obsolete) To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.

We do trace this alley up and down.

意味（8）

(computing, transitive) To follow the execution of the program by making it to stop after every instruction, or by making it print a message after every step.

traces （ present singular third-person ）

tracing （ participle present ）

traced （ participle past ）

traced （ past ）