Road vs Trace - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) The act of riding on horseback.
(obsolete) A hostile ride against a particular area; a raid.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.8:
(nautical, often, in the plural) A partly sheltered area of water near a shore in which vessels may ride at anchor.
* 1630 , , True Travels , in Kupperman 1988, p. 38:
A way used for travelling between places, originally one wide enough to allow foot passengers and horses to travel, now usually one surfaced with asphalt or concrete and designed to accommodate many vehicles travelling in both directions.
* {{quote-book, 1852, Mrs M.A. Thompson, chapter=The Tutor's Daughter, Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion, page=266
, passage=In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road .}}
* , chapter=1
, title= (figuratively) A path chosen in life or career.
* Ronald Reagan: A Time for Choosing (1964).
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, tiutle= An underground tunnel in a mine.
(US) A railway; (British) a single railway track.
(obsolete) A journey, or stage of a journey.
* Shakespeare
An act of tracing.
A mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal.
A very small amount.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=7 (electronics) An electric current-carrying conductive pathway on a printed circuit board.
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
* {{quote-news
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, date=July 19
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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 nouns the difference between road and trace
is that road is the act of riding on horseback while trace is an act of tracing.As a verb trace is
to follow the trail of.road
English
(wikipedia road)Noun
(en noun)- There dwelt a salvage nation, which did live / Of stealth and spoile, and making nightly rode / Into their neighbours borders […].
- There delivering their fraught, they went to Scandaroone; rather to view what ships was in the Roade , than any thing else [...].
citation
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for.}}
- Where, then, is the road to peace?
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- With easy roads he came to Leicester.
Usage notes
Often used interchangeably with street or other similar words. When usage is distinguished, a road is a route between settlements (reflecting the etymological relation with ride), as in the from London to Edinburgh, while a street is a route within a settlement (city or town), strictly speaking paved.Hyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* A road, A-road * access road * all roads lead to Rome * B road * back road * bump in the road * burn up the road * byroad * C road * corduroy road * crossroad * down the road * end of the road * fork in the road * frontage road * Great North road * highroad/high road * hit the road * ice road * low road * main road * middle of the road/middle-of-the-road * nonroad * offroad/off-road * on the road * one for the road * pay-per-use road * Persian Royal Road * railroad * ring road * road allowance * road apple * road case * road export * road fund licence * road gang * road hockey * road hog/road-hog * road map * road movie * road race * road rage * road rash * road sign * road to Damascus * road train * road trip * road warrior * roadability * roadbase * roadbed * roadblock * roader * roadhouse * roadie * roadkill * roadless * roadness * roadroller * roadrunner * roadshow * roadside * roadstead * roadster * roadway * roadwork * roadworks * roadworthy * rocky road * service road * slip road/sliproad * take the high road * Tobacco Road * trunk road * where the rubber meets the road * winter road * yellow brick road/Yellow Brick RoadStatistics
*Anagrams
* * 1000 English basic words ----trace
English
(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.