Price vs Trace - What's the difference?
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The cost required to gain possession of something.
* Shakespeare
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Value; estimation; excellence; worth.
* Bible, Proverbs xxxi. 10
* Keble
To determine the monetary value of (an item), to put a price on.
(obsolete) To pay the price of, to make reparation for.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.ix:
(obsolete) To set a price on; to value; to prize.
(colloquial, dated) To ask the price of.
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
Price is a related term of trace.
As a phrase price
is (label) protect, rest, ice, compression, and elevation a common treatment method for sprained joints.As a verb trace is
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Noun
(en noun)- We can afford no more at such a price .
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- Her price is far above rubies.
- new treasures still, of countless price
Derived terms
* list price * pool price * price-conscious * price stability * purchase price * reserve price * selling price * shadow price * spot price * starting price * strike price * upset priceVerb
(pric)- Thou damned wight, / The author of this fact, we here behold, / What iustice can but iudge against thee right, / With thine owne bloud to price his bloud, here shed in sight.
- to price eggs
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(wikipedia trace)Etymology 1
From (etyl) trace, traas, from (etyl) , from the verb (see below).Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.}}
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.