Noun: trace
| Singular | trace |
| Plural | traces |
Sample Sentences
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Your cell phone company can put a trace on your line.
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Those are the times you write it off, experience / Walk away, and leave no trace / Cause that night, love had no face [1983, Ashford & Simpson, “Experience (Love Had No Face)”, in High-Rise (album):]
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There are traces of chocolate around your lips.
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All of our chocolates may contain traces of nuts.
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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. [1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 7, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:]
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And by mornin'
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Gone was any trace of you, I think I am finally clean [2014 October 27, Taylor Swift, Imogen Heap, “Clean (Taylor's Version)”, in 1989 (Taylor's Version), performed by Taylor Swift, published 27 October 2023:]
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[S]upposing the NP has raised in (18), the potential bindees are the clitic and the trace of the focalized NP, neither of which qualifies as a syntactic variable. [1999, Georges Rebuschi, Laurice Tuller, The Grammar of Focus, page 290:]
Nouns inflected like trace
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English trace, traas, from Old French trace (“an outline, track, trace”), from the verb (see below). See: Middle English Nouns '
trace'.