Follow vs Trace - What's the difference?
follow | trace |
To go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction.
To go or come after in a sequence.
To carry out (orders, instructions, etc.).
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To live one's life according to (religion, teachings, etc).
To understand, to pay attention to.
To watch, to keep track of (reports of) some event or person.
To be a logical consequence of.
To walk in, as a road or course; to attend upon closely, as a profession or calling.
* Shakespeare
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
In transitive terms the difference between follow and trace
is that follow is to walk in, as a road or course; to attend upon closely, as a profession or calling while trace is to copy onto a sheet of paper superimposed over the original, by drawing over its lines.As a noun trace is
an act of tracing.follow
English
Verb
(en verb)- We both ordered the soup, with roast beef to follow .
- O, had I but followed the arts!
Synonyms
* (go after in a physical space) trail, tail * (in a sequence) succeed * (carry out) pursue * (be a consequence) ensueAntonyms
* (go after in a physical space) guide, lead * (go after in a sequence) precedeDerived terms
* followable * follow along * followed by * follower * following * follow in someone's footsteps * follow on * follow out * follow shot * follow suit * follow someone off a cliff * follow the leader/follow-the-leader * follow the queen * follow through * follow-through * follow up * follow-up * hard act to follow * soon to follow * tough act to followSee also
* chaseStatistics
*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.