Trace vs Trifle - What's the difference?
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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
An English dessert made from a mixture of thick custard, fruit, sponge cake, jelly and whipped cream.
An insignificant amount.
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* Shakespeare
* Drayton
A particular kind of pewter.
(uncountable) Utensils made from this particular kind of pewter.
To deal with something as if it were of little importance or worth.
To act, speak, or otherwise behave with jest.
To inconsequentially toy with something.
To squander or waste.
Trace is a related term of trifle.
As verbs the difference between trace and trifle
is that trace is while trifle is to deal with something as if it were of little importance or worth.As a noun trifle is
an english dessert made from a mixture of thick custard, fruit, sponge cake, jelly and whipped cream.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.
Anagrams
* * * * * ----trifle
English
Noun
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- Trifles light as air / Are to the jealous confirmation strong / As proofs of holy writ.
- with such poor trifles playing