Retrace vs Recede - What's the difference?
retrace | recede |
To trace again; to go back over something, usually in an attempt of rediscovery.
(television) The period when the beam of the cathode-ray tube returns to its initial horizontal position in order to start the next line of the display.
To move back; to retreat; to withdraw.
* Dryden
* Bentley
To cede back; to grant or yield again to a former possessor.
To take back.
As verbs the difference between retrace and recede
is that retrace is to trace again; to go back over something, usually in an attempt of rediscovery while recede is to move back; to retreat; to withdraw.As a noun retrace
is the period when the beam of the cathode-ray tube returns to its initial horizontal position in order to start the next line of the display.retrace
English
Verb
- He retraced his steps, and found his keys where he had dropped them.
Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
* * ----recede
English
Verb
(reced)- Like the hollow roar / Of tides receding from the instituted shore.
- All bodies moved circularly endeavour to recede from the center.
- to recede conquered territory