English Dictionary

trace

/tɹeɪs/

verb

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

She traced her finger along the map to find the route.

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.