An act of tracing.
Your cell phone company can put a trace on your line.
An enquiry sent out for a missing article, such as a letter or an express package.
Extremely small or insignificant (of an amount or quantity).
To follow the trail of.
I feel thy power […] to trace the ways / Of highest agents.
To follow the history of.
A short form of the female given name Tracy or Tracey.
From Middle English trace, traas, from Old French trace (“an outline, track, trace”), from the verb (see below).
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1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth You may trace the deluge quite round the globe.
To draw or sketch lightly or with care.
He carefully traced the outlines of the old building before him.