trace

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And there's obviously no way it hell you will trace the product back to its production.

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Quick take

a just detectable amount; "he speaks French with a trace of an accent"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of trace gathered in one view.

noun

a just detectable amount; "he speaks French with a trace of an accent"

noun

an indication that something has been present; "there wasn't a trace of evidence for the claim"; "a tincture of condescension"

noun

a suggestion of some quality; "there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone"; "he detected a ghost of a smile on her face"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for trace.

noun

a just detectable amount; "he speaks French with a trace of an accent"

noun

an indication that something has been present; "there wasn't a trace of evidence for the claim"; "a tincture of condescension"

noun

a suggestion of some quality; "there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone"; "he detected a ghost of a smile on her face"

noun

a drawing created by superimposing a semitransparent sheet of paper on the original image and copying on it the lines of the original image

noun

either of two lines that connect a horse's harness to a wagon or other vehicle or to a whiffletree

noun

a visible mark (as a footprint) left by the passage of person or animal or vehicle

verb

follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something; "We must follow closely the economic development is Cuba" ; "trace the student's progress"

verb

make a mark or lines on a surface; "draw a line"; "trace the outline of a figure in the sand"

See also: draw, line, describe, delineate

verb

to go back over again; "we retraced the route we took last summer"; "trace your path"

verb

pursue or chase relentlessly; "The hunters traced the deer into the woods"; "the detectives hounded the suspect until they found him"

verb

discover traces of; "She traced the circumstances of her birth"

verb

make one's course or travel along a path; travel or pass over, around, or along; "The children traced along the edge of the dark forest"; "The women traced the pasture"

verb

copy by following the lines of the original drawing on a transparent sheet placed upon it; make a tracing of; "trace a design"; "trace a pattern"

verb

read with difficulty; "Can you decipher this letter?"; "The archeologist traced the hieroglyphs"

Example sentences

And there's obviously no way it hell you will trace the product back to its production.

Lucky for me, I had an o-scope and was able to trace to a capacitor that had shorted in the 5 volt path.

If you trace out how the light goes, you'll see that there is nothing different about horizontal vs vertical.

As a compiler author, one can do things like profile types/trace/whatever, and deoptimize if you get it wrong.

So I established a habit of writing kind of stack trace of my own thoughts so that I could easily come back to my state of mind after such thing.

You need to model the signal path from the die through the interconnect, BGA ball, land and via stack, trace and then back up the chain into the memory chip.

Bitcoin has the unusual ability to have a very tight trace on where a given virtual coin goes: that just makes the ability to watch the money easier.

Then, I programmed the mill to trace out the contour of the leg while the lathe spun the wood underneath the mill head....> The legs of the instrument turned out to be a few inches too long for my wood lathe so I pulled the lathe out of the milling machine and cut it into two pieces on a band saw. I then bolted both pieces back into the mill, separated by a few inches.

By the time the malice is detected, maybe the network could trace all USD or EUR that was issued by the gateway, and revoke it, suddenly pissing off a lot of users who owns this currency as it would disappear from their wallet.

Im not 100% sure on it, but I can easily envision a world where you fix bugs in your website by opening it up in a browser, reading a stack trace, fixing the JS in that same browser and persisting your changes back to the server.

If it ever becomes illegal to upgrade the RAM in your laptop yourself or to install third party software on it then you can bet that you can trace the ancestry of those laws back to the shifts in public perception of computing freedom caused by companies like Apple.

I can just choose one... or I can zoom through the backtrace, inspect objects, change values in instance slots, recompile code to fix the bug, and choose the "continue" restart... voila the computation continues, my system never stopped doing all of the other tasks it was in the middle of doing, and my original error was fixed and I didn't lose anything.