noun
- What you must know in order to determine the reference of an expression.
- synonyms: intension
- An idea that is implied or suggested. .
Connotation and Trace
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
(n.) The act of connoting; a making known or designating something additional; implication of something more than is asserted.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
noun
- A just detectable amount.
- usage: "he speaks French with a trace of an accent"
- synonyms: hint, suggestion
- An indication that something has been present.
- usage: "there wasn't a trace of evidence for the claim"; "a tincture of condescension"
- A suggestion of some quality.
- usage: "there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone"; "he detected a ghost of a smile on her face"
- A drawing created by superimposing a semitransparent sheet of paper on the original image and copying on it the lines of the original image.
- synonyms: tracing
- Either of two lines that connect a horse's harness to a wagon or other vehicle or to a whiffletree.
- 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.
- usage: "We must follow closely the economic development is Cuba"; "trace the student's progress"
- synonyms: follow
- Make a mark or lines on a surface.
- usage: "draw a line"; "trace the outline of a figure in the sand"
- To go back over again.
- usage: "we retraced the route we took last summer"; "trace your path"
- synonyms: retrace
- Pursue or chase relentlessly.
- usage: "The hunters traced the deer into the woods"; "the detectives hounded the suspect until they found him"
- Discover traces of.
- usage: "She traced the circumstances of her birth"
- Make one's course or travel along a path; travel or pass over, around, or along.
- usage: "The children traced along the edge of the dark forest"; "The women traced the pasture"
- Copy by following the lines of the original drawing on a transparent sheet placed upon it; make a tracing of.
- usage: "trace a design"; "trace a pattern"
- Read with difficulty.
- usage: "Can you decipher this letter"; "The archeologist traced the hieroglyphs"
- synonyms: decipher
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (n.) A connecting bar or rod, pivoted at each end to the end of another piece, for transmitting motion, especially from one plane to another; specifically, such a piece in an organ-stop action to transmit motion from the trundle to the lever actuating the stop slider.
- (v.i.) To walk; to go; to travel.
- (v.t.) To follow by some mark that has been left by a person or thing which has preceded; to follow by footsteps, tracks or tokens.
- (v.t.) To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.
- (v.t.) Hence, to follow the trace or track of.
- (v.t.) To copy; to imitate.
- (v.t.) The intersection of a plane of projection or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.
- (v.t.) A very small quantity of an element or compound in a given substance, especially when so small that the amount is not quantitatively determined in an analysis; -- hence, in stating an analysis, often contracted to tr.
- (v.t.) The ground plan of a work or works.
- (v.t.) A mark, impression or visible appearance of anything left when the thing itself no longer exists; remains; token; vestige.
- (v.t.) To mark out; to draw or delineate with marks; especially, to copy, as a drawing or engraving, by following the lines and marking them on a sheet superimposed, through which they appear; as, to trace a figure or an outline; a traced drawing.
- (n.) One of two straps, chains or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whiffletree attached to a vehicle or thing to be drawn; a tug.
- (v.t.) A mark left by anything passing; a track; a path; a course; a footprint; a vestige; as, the trace of a carriage or sled; the trace of a deer; a sinuous trace.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary