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Taint vs Trace - What's the difference?

taint | trace |

As verbs the difference between taint and trace

is that taint is to (l) or (l) (something) with an external (l), either (l) or (l) or taint can be to damage, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner while trace is .

As a noun taint

is a (l), (l) or (l), especially in (l) or taint can be a (l) with a (l), which fails of its intended (l) or taint can be (slang) the (l).

taint

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) tingere, tinctum via (etyl) teint (past participle of )

Noun

(en noun)
  • A (l), (l) or (l), especially in (l)
  • A mark of (l), especially on one's (l); blemish
  • (obsolete) tincture; hue; colour
  • (obsolete) infection; corruption; deprivation
    • He had inherited from his parents a scrofulous taint , which it was beyond the power of medicine to remove. — Macaulay.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To (l) or (l) (something) with an external (l), either (l) or (l).
  • * Shakespeare
    • His unkindness may defeat my life, / But never taint my love.
  • To (l) (food) by (l).
  • To be infected or corrupted; to be touched by something corrupting.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I cannot taint with fear.
  • To be affected with incipient putrefaction.
    • Meat soon taints in warm weather.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) . Compare with attaint.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A (l) with a (l), which fails of its intended (l).
  • An (l) done to a (l) in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an encounter in a (l) or unscientific manner.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To damage, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.
  • * Massinger
    • Do not fear; I have / A staff to taint , and bravely.
  • To hit or touch lightly, in tilting.
  • * Ld. Berners
    • They tainted each other on the helms and passed by.
  • To thrust ineffectually with a lance.

    • Etymology 3

    Reportedly from the phrase “ your balls and 'tain't your ass”.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang) The (l).
  • * 2000 June 17, "Marc Newman" (username), " Re: Americas are overated", in talk.politics.guns, Usenet :
    • Sorry you feel that way. But since your mother sucks cocks in hell if I go there I won't be rotting.....I'll be on line right behind you hoping to get another good head job from your Mom or Sister....if you can remember which is which.......(Moms the one with the beard on her taint )
  • * 2005 July 14, "Noodles Jefferson" (username), " Re: My Wife's Raw Comments", in rec.sport.pro-wrestling, Usenet :
    • Even her taint 's raw?
  • * 2010 February 22, "Duchamanos" (username), " Re: Huck Finn 2010-anyone going?", in rec.sport.disc, Usenet :
    • Did you know that guy has absolutely no tan lines? He'll show his taint to prove it!

    Anagrams

    * (l), (l), (l)

    trace

    English

    (wikipedia trace)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) trace, traas, from (etyl) , from the verb (see below).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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 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.}}
  • (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.
    • Derived terms
    * downtrace, uptrace
    Synonyms
    * (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

  • To follow the trail of.
  • * Milton
    • I feel thy power to trace the ways / Of highest agents.
    (Cowper)
  • To follow the history of.
  • * T. Burnet
    • You may trace the deluge quite round the globe.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=July 19 , author=Ella Davies , title=Sticks insects survive one million years without sex , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=They traced the ancient lineages of two species to reveal the insects' lengthy history of asexual reproduction.}}
  • To draw or sketch lightly or with care.
    • He carefully traced the outlines of the old building before him.
  • To copy onto a sheet of paper superimposed over the original, by drawing over its lines.
  • (obsolete) To copy; to imitate.
  • * Denham
    • That servile path thou nobly dost decline, / Of tracing word, and line by line.
  • (obsolete) To walk; to go; to travel.
  • * Spenser
    • Not wont on foot with heavy arms to trace .
  • (obsolete) To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.
  • * Shakespeare
    • We do trace this alley up and down.
    Related terms
    * tracing

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