Trace vs Arace - What's the difference?
trace | arace |
An act of tracing.
A mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal.
A very small amount.
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An informal road or prominent path in an arid area.
One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whippletree attached to a vehicle or thing to be drawn; a tug.
(fortification) The ground plan of a work or works.
The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.
(mathematics) The sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix.
To follow the trail of.
* Milton
To follow the history of.
* T. Burnet
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To draw or sketch lightly or with care.
To copy onto a sheet of paper superimposed over the original, by drawing over its lines.
(obsolete) To copy; to imitate.
* Denham
(obsolete) To walk; to go; to travel.
* Spenser
(obsolete) To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.
* Shakespeare
As verbs the difference between trace and arace
is that trace is to follow the trail of while arace is to tear up by the roots; to draw away.As a noun trace
is an act of tracing.trace
English
(wikipedia trace)Etymology 1
From (etyl) trace, traas, from (etyl) , from the verb (see below).Noun
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Derived terms
* downtrace, uptraceSynonyms
* (mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal) track, trail * (small amount) see also .Etymology 2
From (etyl) tracen, from (etyl) tracer, .Verb
- I feel thy power to trace the ways / Of highest agents.
- (Cowper)
- You may trace the deluge quite round the globe.
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- He carefully traced the outlines of the old building before him.
- That servile path thou nobly dost decline, / Of tracing word, and line by line.
- Not wont on foot with heavy arms to trace .
- We do trace this alley up and down.