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Traceback vs Dodge - What's the difference?

traceback | dodge |

As nouns the difference between traceback and dodge

is that traceback is determination of origin; the process of tracing something back to its source while dodge is an act of dodging.

As a verb dodge is

to avoid by moving suddenly out of the way.

As a proper noun Dodge is

{{surname|from=given names}} derived from a Middle English diminutive of Roger. (Typically found in the United States..

traceback

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (chiefly, computing) Determination]] of origin; the process of [[trace, tracing something back to its source.
  • dodge

    English

    Verb

    (dodg)
  • To avoid by moving suddenly out of the way.
  • He dodged traffic crossing the street.
  • (figuratively) To avoid; to sidestep.
  • The politician dodged the question with a meaningless reply.
  • * {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
  • , title=Internal Combustion , chapter=2 citation , passage=The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize the forest, dodged fines for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor. But his appeal was painfully real and embodied the struggle over wood.}}
  • (archaic) To go hither and thither.
  • (photography) To decrease the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them darker (compare burn).
  • To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
  • * Coleridge
  • A speck, a mist, a shape, I wist! / And still it neared and neared: / As if it dodged a water-sprite, / It plunged and tacked and veered.

    Synonyms

    * (to avoid) duck, evade, fudge, skirt

    Derived terms

    * dodge a bullet * dodger * dodgy

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of dodging
  • A trick, evasion or wile