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Grammar : Adj
Spell : treys
Phonetic Transcription : treɪs

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Définition of traced

Origin :
  • late 14c., "to make a plan or diagram," from Old French trasser "delineate, score, trace, follow, pursue" (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *tractiare "delineate, score, trace" (cf. Spanish trazar "to trace, devise, plan out," Italian tracciare "to follow by foot"), from Latin tractus "track, course," literally "a drawing out," from past participle stem of trahere "to pull, draw" (see tract (n.1)).
  • Meaning "to pass over" (a path, etc.) is attested from late 14c.; that of "track down, follow the trail of" is early 15c., from trace (n.1). Sense of "draw an outline of" is first recorded late 14c. Meaning "copy a drawing on a transparent sheet laid over it" is recorded from 1762. Related: Traced; tracing.
  • adj copied
  • adj tracked
Example sentences :
  • Division on public questions can no longer be traced by the war maps of 1861.
  • Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
  • They had been traced eventually to a certain department, that in which Mary worked.
  • Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
  • Dilly bent, and traced the outline of a leaf with her finger.
  • Extract from : « Meadow Grass » by Alice Brown
  • She traced the outline of her left eyebrow, and put it right.
  • Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens
  • The theft of old Galloway's bank-note has been traced to Arthur Channing.
  • Extract from : « The Channings » by Mrs. Henry Wood
  • The history of the families connected with the parish must be traced.
  • Extract from : « English Villages » by P. H. Ditchfield
  • On his father's side a pedigree of three generations can be traced.
  • Extract from : « Concerning Cats » by Helen M. Winslow
  • The man's whole evening has been traced without the slightest difficulty.
  • Extract from : « The Avenger » by E. Phillips Oppenheim
  • Something like the same legend has been traced as far south as Panama.
  • Extract from : « Storyology » by Benjamin Taylor
  • There is not any reasoning by which the evidences of depravity are to be traced in 17.
  • Extract from : « Modern Painters Volume II (of V) » by John Ruskin

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