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Synonyms of the word 
TRACE → ANALYSE - ANALYZE - CANVAS - CANVASS - CHASE - CONTINUE - COPY - DECIPHER - DELINEATE - DESCRIBE - DETECT - DISCOVER - DOG - DRAW - DRAWING - EXAMINE - FIND - FOLLOW - GHOST - HINT - HOUND - HUNT - INDICANT - INDICATION - LINE - MARK - NOTICE - OBSERVE - PRINT - PROCEED - PROFFER - PROPOSITION - RE-CREATE - READ - RETRACE - RETURN - SHADOW - STUDY - SUGGESTION - TAG - TAIL - TINCTURE - TOUCH - TRACING - TRACK - TRAIL - VESTIGEtrace- n. An act of tracing.
- n. An enquiry sent out for a missing article, such as a letter or an express package.
- n. A mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal.
- n. A very small amount.
- n. (electronics) A current-carrying conductive pathway on a printed circuit board.
- n. An informal road or prominent path in an arid area.
- n. One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whippletree…
- n. (engineering) A connecting bar or rod, pivoted at each end to the end of another piece, for transmitting…
- n. (fortification) The ground plan of a work or works.
- n. The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.
- n. (mathematics) The sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix.
- n. (grammar) An empty category occupying a position in the syntactic structure from which something has been…
- v. (transitive) To follow the trail of.
- v. To follow the history of.
- v. (transitive) To draw or sketch lightly or with care.
- v. (transitive) To copy onto a sheet of paper superimposed over the original, by drawing over its lines.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To copy; to imitate.
- v. (intransitive, obsolete) To walk; to go; to travel.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.
- v. (computing, transitive) To follow the execution of the program by making it to stop after every instruction,…
analyse- v. British spelling standard spelling of analyze.
analyze- v. (transitive) To subject to analysis.
- v. (transitive) To resolve (anything complex) into its elements.
- v. (transitive) To separate into the constituent parts, for the purpose of an examination of each separately.
- v. (transitive) To examine in such a manner as to ascertain the elements or nature of the thing examined;…
canvas- n. A type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp, useful for making sails and tents or as a surface for paintings.
- n. A piece of canvas cloth stretched across a frame on which one may paint.
- n. A basis for creative work.
- n. (computer graphics) A region on which graphics can be rendered.
- n. (nautical) sails in general.
- n. A tent.
- n. A painting, or a picture on canvas.
- n. A rough draft or model of a song, air, or other literary or musical composition; especially one to show…
- n. Alternative spelling of canvass.
- v. To cover an area or object with canvas.
- v. Alternative spelling of canvass.
canvass- n. A solicitation of voters or public opinion.
- n. A tally, audit and certification of votes.
- v. To solicit voters, opinions, etc. from; to go through, with personal solicitation or public addresses.
- v. To conduct a survey.
- v. To campaign.
- v. To sift; to strain; to examine thoroughly; to scrutinize.
- v. To examine by discussion; to debate.
chase- n. The act of one who chases another; a pursuit.
- n. A hunt.
- n. (uncountable) A children's game where one player chases another.
- n. (Britain) A large country estate where game may be shot or hunted.
- n. Anything being chased, especially a vessel in time of war.
- n. (nautical) Any of the guns that fire directly ahead or astern; either a bow chase or stern chase.
- n. (real tennis) The occurrence of a second bounce by the ball in certain areas of the court, giving the…
- n. (real tennis) A division of the floor of a gallery, marked by a figure or otherwise; the spot where a…
- n. (cycling) One or more riders who are ahead of the peloton and trying to join the race or stage leaders.
- v. (transitive) To pursue, to follow at speed.
- v. (transitive) To hunt.
- v. (intransitive) To give chase; to hunt.
- v. (transitive, nautical) To pursue a vessel in order to destroy, capture or interrogate her.
- v. (transitive) To dilute alcohol.
- v. (transitive, cricket) To attempt to win by scoring the required number of runs in the final innings.
- v. (transitive, baseball) To swing at a pitch outside of the strike zone, typically an outside pitch.
- v. (transitive, baseball) To produce enough offense to cause the pitcher to be removed.
- n. (printing) A rectangular steel or iron frame into which pages or columns of type are locked for printing…
- n. A groove cut in an object; a slot: the chase for the quarrel on a crossbow.
- n. (architecture) A trench or channel or other encasement structure for encasing (archaically spelled enchasing)…
- n. The part of a gun in front of the trunnions.
- n. The cavity of a mold.
- n. (shipbuilding) A kind of joint by which an overlap joint is changed to a flush joint by means of a gradually…
- v. (transitive) To groove; indent.
- v. (transitive) To place piping or wiring in a groove encased within a wall or floor, or in a hidden space…
- v. (transitive) To cut (the thread of a screw).
- v. (transitive) To decorate (metal) by engraving or embossing.
continue- v. (transitive) To proceed with (doing an activity); to prolong (an activity).
- v. (transitive) To make last; to prolong.
- v. (transitive) To retain (someone or something) in a given state, position etc.
- v. (intransitive) To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.
- v. (intransitive) To resume.
- v. (transitive, law) To adjourn, prorogue, put off.
- v. (poker slang) To make a continuation bet.
- n. (video games) an option allowing a gamer to resume play after game over, when all lives have been lost.
- n. (programming) a statement which causes a loop to start executing the next iteration, skipping the statements…
copy- n. The result of copying; an identical duplicate of an original.
- n. An imitation, sometimes of inferior quality.
- n. (journalism) The text that is to be typeset.
- n. (journalism) A gender-neutral abbreviation for copy boy.
- n. (marketing) The output of copywriters, who are employed to write material which encourages consumers to…
- n. (uncountable) The text of newspaper articles.
- n. A school work pad.
- n. A printed edition of a book or magazine.
- n. Writing paper of a particular size, called also bastard.
- n. (obsolete) That which is to be imitated, transcribed, or reproduced; a pattern, model, or example.
- n. (obsolete) An abundance or plenty of anything.
- n. (obsolete) copyhold; tenure; lease.
- n. (genetics) The result of gene or chromosomal duplication.
- v. (transitive) To produce an object identical to a given object.
- v. (transitive, computing) To place a copy of an object in memory for later use.
- v. (transitive) To imitate.
- v. (transitive, radio) To receive a transmission successfully.
decipher- v. (transitive) To decode or decrypt a code or cipher to plain text.
- v. (transitive) To read text that is almost illegible or obscure.
- v. (transitive) To find a solution to a problem.
- n. A decipherment; a decoding.
delineate- v. To sketch out, draw or trace an outline.
- v. To depict, represent with pictures.
- v. To describe or depict with words or gestures.
- v. To outline or mark out.
describe- v. (transitive) To represent in words.
- v. (transitive) To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out.
- v. (transitive, mathematics) To give rise to a geometrical structure.
- v. (transitive, taxonomy) To introduce a new taxon to science by explaining its characteristics and particularly…
- v. (obsolete) To distribute into parts, groups, or classes; to mark off; to class.
detect- v. to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing.
- adj. (obsolete) Detected.
discover- v. To find or learn something for the first time.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To remove the cover from; to uncover (a head, building etc.).
- v. (transitive, now rare) To expose, uncover.
- v. (transitive, chess) To create by moving a piece out of another piece's line of attack.
- v. (transitive, archaic) To reveal (information); to divulge, make known.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To reconnoitre, explore (an area).
- v. (obsolete) To manifest without design; to show; to exhibit.
dog- n. A mammal, Canis lupus familiaris, that has been domesticated for thousands of years, of highly variable…
- n. A male dog, wolf or fox, as opposed to a bitch (often attributive).
- n. (slang, derogatory) A dull, unattractive girl or woman.
- n. (slang) A man (derived from definition 2).
- n. (slang, derogatory) A coward.
- n. (derogatory) Someone who is morally reprehensible.
- n. (slang) A sexually aggressive man (cf. horny).
- n. Any of various mechanical devices for holding, gripping, or fastening something, particularly with a tooth-like…
- n. A click or pallet adapted to engage the teeth of a ratchet-wheel, to restrain the back action; a click…
- n. A metal support for logs in a fireplace.
- n. A hot dog.
- n. (poker slang) Underdog.
- n. (slang, almost always in the plural) Foot.
- v. (transitive) To pursue with the intent to catch.
- v. (transitive) To follow in an annoying or harassing way.
- v. (transitive, nautical) To fasten a hatch securely.
- v. (intransitive, emerging usage in Britain) To watch, or participate, in sexual activity in a public place.
- v. (intransitive, transitive) To intentionally restrict one's productivity as employee; to work at the slowest…
draw- v. (heading) To move or develop something.
- v. (heading) To exert or experience force.
- v. (heading, fluidic) To remove or separate or displace.
- v. (heading) To change in size or shape.
- v. (heading) To attract or be attracted.
- v. (Usually as draw on or draw upon): to rely on; utilize as a source.
- v. To disembowel.
- v. (transitive or intransitive) To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).
- v. A random selection process.
- v. (curling) To make a shot that lands in the house without hitting another stone.
- v. (cricket) To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect…
- v. (golf) To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.
- v. (billiards) To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes…
- n. The result of a contest in which neither side has won; a tie.
- n. The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.
- n. Something that attracts e.g. a crowd.
- n. (cricket) The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings…
- n. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice,…
- n. (curling) A shot that lands in the house without hitting another stone.
- n. (geography) A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.
- n. (colloquial) Cannabis.
- n. In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.
- n. (poker) A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary…
- n. (archery) The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing.
- n. (sports) The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.
drawing- v. present participle of draw.
- n. A picture, likeness, diagram or representation, usually drawn on paper.
- n. (uncountable) The act of producing such a picture.
- n. Such acts practiced as a graphic art form.
- n. The process of drawing or pulling something.
- n. An act or event in which the outcome (e.g., designating a winner) is selected by chance in the form of…
- n. A small portion of tea for steeping.
examine- v. To observe or inspect carefully or critically.
- v. To check the health or condition of something or someone.
- v. To determine the aptitude, skills or qualifications of someone by subjecting them to an examination.
- v. To interrogate.
find- v. (transitive) To encounter or discover by accident; to happen upon.
- v. (transitive) To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate.
- v. (transitive) To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end.
- v. (transitive) To gain, as the object of desire or effort.
- v. (transitive) To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.
- v. (transitive) To point out.
- v. (transitive) To decide that, to discover that, to form the opinion that.
- v. (transitive) To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish.
- v. (transitive, archaic) To supply; to furnish.
- v. (transitive, archaic) To provide for.
- v. (intransitive, law) To determine or judge.
- v. (intransitive, hunting) To discover game.
- n. Anything that is found (usually valuable), as objects on an archeological site or a person with talent.
- n. The act of finding.
follow- v. (transitive) To go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction.
- v. (transitive) To go or come after in a sequence.
- v. (transitive) To carry out (orders, instructions, etc.).
- v. (transitive) To live one's life according to (religion, teachings, etc).
- v. (transitive) To understand, to pay attention to.
- v. (transitive) To watch, to keep track of (reports of) some event or person.
- v. (transitive) To be a logical consequence of.
- v. (transitive) To walk in, as a road or course; to attend upon closely, as a profession or calling.
- n. (sometimes attributive) In billiards and similar games, a stroke causing a ball to follow another ball…
- n. (Internet) The act of following another user's online activity.
ghost- n. (dated) The spirit; the soul of man.
- n. The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition;…
- n. Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering.
- n. A false image formed in a telescope, camera, or other optical device by reflection from the surfaces of…
- n. An unwanted image similar to and overlapping or adjacent to the main one on a television screen, caused…
- n. A ghostwriter.
- n. (Internet) An unresponsive user on IRC, resulting from the user's client disconnecting without notifying…
- n. (computing) An image of a file or hard disk.
- n. (theater) An understudy.
- n. (espionage) A covert (and deniable) agent.
- n. The faint image that remains after an attempt to remove graffiti.
- n. (video games) An opponent in a racing game that follows a previously recorded route, allowing players…
- n. A dead person whose identity is stolen by another. See ghosting.
- n. (attributive, in names of species) White or pale.
- n. (attributive, in names of species) Transparent or translucent.
- n. (attributive) Abandoned.
- n. (attributive) The remains of.
- n. (attributive) Perceived or listed but not real.
- n. (attributive) Of cryptid, supernatural or extraterrestrial nature.
- n. (attributive) Substitute.
- v. (obsolete, transitive) To haunt; to appear to in the form of an apparition.
- v. (obsolete) To die; to expire.
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To ghostwrite.
- v. (nautical) To sail seemingly without wind.
- v. (computing) To copy a file or hard drive image.
- v. (graphical user interface) To gray out (a visual item) to indicate that it is unavailable.
- v. (Internet, transitive) To forcibly disconnect an IRC user who is using one's reserved nickname.
- v. To appear without warning; To move quickly and quietly; to slip.
- v. to kill.
- v. to break up with someone without warning or explanation (see ghosting).
hint- n. A clue.
- n. A tacit suggestion that avoids a direct statement.
- n. A small, barely detectable amount of.
- n. (computing) Information in a computer-based font that suggests how the outlines of the font's glyphs should…
- n. (obsolete) An opportunity; occasion; fit time.
- v. (intransitive) To suggest tacitly without a direct statement; to provide a clue.
- v. (transitive) To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner.
- v. (transitive) To develop and add hints to a font.
hound- n. A dog, particularly a breed with a good sense of smell developed for hunting other animals. (hunt hound,…
- n. (by extension) Someone who seeks something.
- n. (by extension) A male who constantly seeks the company of desirable women.
- n. A despicable person.
- n. A houndfish.
- n. (nautical, in the plural) Projections at the masthead, serving as a support for the trestletrees and top…
- n. A side bar used to strengthen portions of the running gear of a vehicle.
- v. (transitive) To persistently harass.
hunt- v. (transitive, intransitive) To chase down prey and (usually) kill it.
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To try to find something; search (for).
- v. (transitive) To drive; to chase; with down, from, away, etc.
- v. (transitive) To use or manage (dogs, horses, etc.) in hunting.
- v. (transitive) To use or traverse in pursuit of game.
- v. (bell-ringing, transitive) To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.
- v. (bell-ringing, intransitive) To shift up and down in order regularly.
- v. (engineering, intransitive) To be in a state of instability of movement or forced oscillation, as a governor…
- n. The act of hunting.
- n. A hunting expedition.
- n. An organization devoted to hunting, or the people belonging to such an organization (capitalized if the…
indicant- adj. Serving to point out, as a remedy; indicating.
- n. That which indicates or points out.
indication- n. Act of pointing out or indicating.
- n. That which serves to indicate or point out; mark; token; sign; symptom; evidence.
- n. Discovery made; information.
- n. (obsolete) Explanation; display. Francis Bacon.
- n. (medicine) Any symptom or occurrence in a disease, which serves to direct to suitable remedies.
- n. (finance) An declared approximation of the price at which a traded security is likely to commence trading.
line- n. A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen;…
- n. A rope, cord, string, or thread, of any thickness.
- n. A hose or pipe, of any size.
- n. Direction, path.
- n. The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points:…
- n. A letter, a written form of communication.
- n. A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement…
- n. (military) A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied…
- n. The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.
- n. A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure.
- n. (obsolete) A measuring line or cord.
- n. That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place…
- n. A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.
- n. Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body).
- n. A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often…
- n. (military) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry,…
- n. A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.
- n. A small amount of text. Specifically.
- n. Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade,…
- n. The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political…
- n. The products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself.
- n. (stock exchange) A number of shares taken by a jobber.
- n. A measure of length.
- n. (historical) A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.
- n. (baseball, slang, 1800s, with "the") The batter’s box.
- n. (fencing, ‘line of engagement’) The position in which the fencers hold their swords.
- n. (engineering) Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with…
- n. A small portion or serving (of a powdery illegal drug).
- n. (obsolete) Instruction; doctrine.
- n. (genetics) Population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup.
- n. (perfusion line) a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way stopcock…
- n. (ice hockey) A group of forwards that play together.
- v. (transitive) To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.
- v. (transitive) To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding;…
- v. To form a line along.
- v. (transitive) To mark with a line or lines, to cover with lines.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray.
- v. (transitive) To read or repeat line by line.
- v. (intransitive, ‘line up’) To form or enter into a line.
- v. (intransitive, baseball) To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare…
- v. To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
- n. (obsolete) Flax; linen, particularly the longer fiber of flax.
- v. (transitive) To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.
- v. To reinforce (the back of a book) with glue and glued scrap material such as fabric or paper.
- v. (transitive) To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.
- v. (transitive, now rare, of a dog) to copulate with, to impregnate.
mark- n. (heading) Boundary, land within a boundary.
- n. (heading) Characteristic, sign, visible impression.
- n. (heading) Indicator of position, objective etc.
- n. (heading) Attention.
- v. To put a mark upon; to make recognizable by a mark.
- v. To indicate in some way for later reference.
- v. To take note of.
- v. To blemish, scratch, or stain.
- v. To indicate the correctness of and give a score to an essay, exam answers, etc.
- v. To keep account of; to enumerate and register.
- v. (Australian Rules football) To catch the ball directly from a kick of 10 metres or more without having…
- v. (sports) To follow a player not in possession of the ball when defending, to prevent them receiving a…
- v. (golf) To put a marker in the place of one's ball.
- v. (singing) To sing softly, and perhaps an octave lower than usual, in order to protect one's voice during…
- n. A measure of weight (especially for gold and silver), once used throughout Europe, equivalent to 8 oz.
- n. (now historical) An English and Scottish unit of currency (originally valued at one mark weight of silver),…
- n. Any of various European monetary units, especially the base unit of currency of Germany between 1948 and…
- n. A mark coin.
- v. (imperative, marching) Alternative form of march (said to be easier to pronounce while giving a command).
notice- n. (chiefly uncountable) The act of observing; perception.
- n. (countable) A written or printed announcement.
- n. (countable) A formal notification or warning.
- n. (chiefly uncountable) Advance notification of termination of employment, given by an employer to an employee…
- n. (countable) A published critical review of a play or the like.
- n. (uncountable) Prior notification.
- n. (dated) Attention; respectful treatment; civility.
- v. (transitive) To acknowledge the presence of; observe.
- v. (transitive) To detect; to perceive with the mind.
observe- v. (transitive) To notice or view, especially carefully or with attention to detail.
- v. (transitive) To follow or obey the custom, practice, or rules (especially of a religion).
- v. (intransitive) To comment on something; to make an observation.
print- adj. Of, relating to, or writing for printed publications.
- v. (transitive) To produce one or more copies of a text or image on a surface, especially by machine; often…
- v. To produce a microchip (an integrated circuit) in a process resembling the printing of an image.
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To write very clearly, especially, to write without connecting the letters…
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To publish in a book, newspaper, etc.
- v. (transitive) To stamp or impress (something) with coloured figures or patterns.
- v. (transitive) To fix or impress, as a stamp, mark, character, idea, etc., into or upon something.
- v. (transitive) To stamp something in or upon; to make an impression or mark upon by pressure, or as by pressure.
- v. (computing, transitive) To display a string on the terminal.
- n. (uncountable) Books and other material created by printing presses, considered collectively or as a medium.
- n. (uncountable) Clear handwriting, especially, writing without connected letters as in cursive.
- n. (uncountable) The letters forming the text of a document.
- n. A visible impression on a surface.
- n. A fingerprint.
- n. A footprint.
- n. (visual art) A picture that was created in multiple copies by printing.
- n. (photography) A photograph that has been printed onto paper from the negative.
- n. (motion pictures) A copy of a film that can be projected.
- n. Cloth that has had a pattern of dye printed onto it.
proceed- v. (intransitive) To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to carry on.
- v. (intransitive) To pass from one point, topic, or stage, to another.
- v. (intransitive) To come from (have as the source or origin).
- v. (intransitive) To go on in an orderly or regulated manner; to begin and carry on a series of acts or measures;…
- v. (intransitive) To be transacted; to take place; to occur.
- v. (intransitive, of a rule) To be applicable or effective; to be valid.
- v. (law, intransitive) To begin and carry on a legal process.
proffer- n. An offer made; something proposed for acceptance by another; a tender.
- n. (law) Something that is offered into evidence; an offer to which one is willing to testify under oath.
- n. Essay; attempt.
- v. To offer for acceptance; to propose to give; to make a tender of.
- v. To essay or attempt of one’s own accord; to undertake, or propose to undertake.
proposition- n. (uncountable) The act of offering (an idea) for consideration.
- n. (countable) An idea or a plan offered.
- n. (countable, business settings) The terms of a transaction offered.
- n. (countable, US, politics) In some states, a proposed statute or constitutional amendment to be voted on…
- n. (grammar) a complete sentence.
- n. (countable, logic) The content of an assertion that may be taken as being true or false and is considered…
- n. (countable, mathematics) An assertion so formulated that it can be considered true or false.
- n. (countable, mathematics) An assertion which is provably true, but not important enough to be called a…
- n. A statement of religious doctrine; an article of faith; creed.
- n. (poetry) The part of a poem in which the author states the subject or matter of it.
- v. (transitive, informal) To make a suggestion of sexual intercourse to (someone who one is not sexually…
- v. (transitive, informal) To make an offer or suggestion to (someone).
re-create- v. (transitive) To create again.
- v. (transitive) To create a likeness or copy of.
read- v. (obsolete) To think, believe; to consider (that).
- v. (transitive or intransitive) To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
- v. (transitive or intransitive) To speak aloud words or other information that is written. Often construed…
- v. (transitive) To interpret or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc.
- v. To consist of certain text.
- v. (intransitive) Of text, etc., to be interpreted or read in a particular way.
- v. (transitive) To substitute (a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one); used to introduce…
- v. (informal, usually ironic) Used after a euphemism to introduce the intended, more blunt meaning of a term.
- v. (transitive, telecommunications) To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.
- v. (transitive, Britain) To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks.
- v. (computing, transitive) To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).
- v. (obsolete) To advise; to counsel. See rede.
- v. (obsolete) To tell; to declare; to recite.
- v. (transitive, transgender) To recognise (someone) as being transgender.
- v. (at first especially in the black LGBT community) To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in either…
- n. A reading or an act of reading, especially an actor's part of a play.
- n. (at first especially in the black LGBT community) An instance of reading (“calling attention to someone's…
- n. (in combination) That which is to be read.
retrace- v. (transitive) To trace again; to go back over something, usually in an attempt of rediscovery.
- n. (television) The period when the beam of the cathode-ray tube returns to its initial horizontal position…
return- v. (intransitive) To come or go back (to a place or person).
- v. (intransitive) To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
- v. (intransitive, obsolete) To turn back, retreat.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To turn (something) round.
- v. (transitive) To place or put back something where it had been.
- v. (transitive) To give something back to its original holder or owner.
- v. (transitive) To take back something to a vendor for a refund.
- v. To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
- v. (tennis) To bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve.
- v. (card games) To play a card as a result of another player's lead.
- v. (cricket) To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in…
- v. (transitive) To say in reply; to respond.
- v. (intransitive, computing) To relinquish control to the calling procedure.
- v. (transitive, computing) To pass (data) back to the calling procedure.
- v. (transitive, dated) To retort; to throw back.
- v. (transitive) To report, or bring back and make known.
- v. (by extension, Britain) To elect according to the official report of the election officers.
- n. The act of returning.
- n. A return ticket.
- n. An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect, or the act of returning it.
- n. An answer.
- n. An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, etc…
- n. Gain or loss from an investment.
- n. (taxation, finance): A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax…
- n. (computing) A carriage return character.
- n. (computing) The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.
- n. (computing) A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.
- n. A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.
- n. (American football) Catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.
- n. (cricket) A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.
- n. (architecture) The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building,…
shadow- n. A dark image projected onto a surface where light (or other radiation) is blocked by the shade of an object.
- n. Relative darkness, especially as caused by the interruption of light; gloom, obscurity.
- n. (obsolete) A reflected image, as in a mirror or in water.
- n. That which looms as though a shadow.
- n. A small degree; a shade.
- n. An imperfect and faint representation.
- n. (Britain, law enforcement) A trainee, assigned to work with an experienced officer.
- n. One who secretly or furtively follows another.
- n. A type of lettering form of word processors that makes a cubic effect.
- n. An influence, especially a pervasive or a negative one.
- n. A spirit; a ghost; a shade.
- n. (obsolete, Latinism) An uninvited guest accompanying one who was invited.
- n. (psychology) In Jungian psychology, an unconscious aspect of the personality.
- v. To block light or radio transmission.
- v. (espionage) To secretly or discreetly track or follow another, to keep under surveillance.
- v. To accompany a professional during the working day, so as to learn about an occupation one intends to…
- v. (programming) To make an identifier, usually a variable, inaccessible by declaring another of the same…
- v. (computing) To apply the shadowing process to (the contents of ROM).
- adj. Unofficial, informal, unauthorized, but acting as though it were.
- adj. Having power or influence, but not widely known or recognized.
- adj. (politics) Acting in a leadership role before being formally recognized.
study- v. (usually academic) To review materials already learned in order to make sure one does not forget them,…
- v. (academic) To take a course or courses on a subject.
- v. To acquire knowledge on a subject.
- v. To look at minutely.
- v. To fix the mind closely upon a subject; to dwell upon anything in thought; to muse; to ponder.
- v. To endeavor diligently; to be zealous.
- n. (obsolete) A state of mental perplexity or worried thought.
- n. (archaic) Thought, as directed to a specific purpose; one's concern.
- n. Mental effort to acquire knowledge or learning.
- n. The act of studying or examining; examination.
- n. Any particular branch of learning that is studied; any object of attentive consideration.
- n. A room in a house intended for reading and writing; traditionally the private room of the male head of…
- n. An artwork made in order to practise or demonstrate a subject or technique.
- n. (music) A piece for special practice; an étude.
suggestion- n. (countable) Something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for).
- n. (uncountable) The act of suggesting.
- n. (countable, psychology) Something implied, which the mind is liable to take as fact.
- n. (law, countable) information, insinuation, speculation, as opposed to a sworn testimony and evidence.
tag- n. A small label.
- n. A game played by two or more children in which one child (known as "it") attempts to catch one of the…
- n. A skin tag, an excrescence of skin.
- n. A type of cardboard.
- n. Graffiti in the form of a stylized signature particular to the artist.
- n. A dangling lock of sheep's wool, matted with dung; a dung tag.
- n. An attribution in narrated dialogue (eg, "he said").
- n. (chiefly US) a vehicle number plate; a medal bearing identification data (animals, soldiers).
- n. (baseball) An instance of touching the baserunner with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand.
- n. (computing) A piece of markup representing an element in a markup language.
- n. (computing) A keyword, term, or phrase associated with or assigned to data, media, and/or information…
- n. Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely.
- n. A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.
- n. The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.
- n. Something mean and paltry; the rabble.
- n. A sheep in its first year.
- n. (biochemistry) Any short peptide sequence artificially attached to proteins mostly in order to help purify,…
- n. (slang) A person's name.
- v. (transitive) To label (something).
- v. (transitive, graffiti) To mark (something) with one’s tag.
- v. (transitive) To remove dung tags from a sheep.
- v. (transitive, baseball, colloquial) To hit the ball hard.
- v. (transitive, baseball) To put a runner out by touching them with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand.
- v. (transitive, computing) To mark with a tag (metadata for classification).
- v. To follow closely, accompany, tag along.
- v. (transitive) To catch and touch (a player in the game of tag).
- v. (transitive) To fit with, or as if with, a tag or tags.
- v. To fasten; to attach.
- n. A decoration drawn over some Hebrew letters in Jewish scrolls.
tail- n. (anatomy) The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus.
- n. The tail-end of an object, e.g. the rear of an aircraft's fuselage, containing the tailfin.
- n. An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.
- n. The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
- n. Specifically, the visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
- n. The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
- n. (statistics) The part of a distribution most distant from the mode; as, a long tail.
- n. One who surreptitiously follows another.
- n. (cricket) The last four or five batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.
- n. (typography) The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.
- n. (chiefly in the plural) The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary…
- n. (mathematics) All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.
- n. (now colloquial, chiefly US) The buttocks or backside.
- n. (slang) The penis of a person or animal.
- n. (slang, uncountable) Sexual intercourse.
- n. (kayaking) The stern; the back of the kayak.
- n. The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
- n. A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
- n. (anatomy) The distal tendon of a muscle.
- n. A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.
- n. (surgery) A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness…
- n. One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
- n. (nautical) A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
- n. (music) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
- n. (mining) A tailing.
- n. (architecture) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.
- n. (colloquial, dated) A tailcoat.
- v. (transitive) To follow and observe surreptitiously.
- v. (architecture) To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in…
- v. (nautical) To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.
- v. To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
- v. To pull or draw by the tail.
- adj. (law) Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed.
- n. (law) Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs.
tincture- n. A pigment or other substance that colours or dyes.
- n. A tint, or an added colour.
- n. (heraldry) A colour or metal used in the depiction of a coat of arms.
- n. An alcoholic extract of plant material, used as a medicine.
- n. (humorous) A small alcoholic drink.
- n. An essential characteristic.
- n. The finer and more volatile parts of a substance, separated by a solvent; an extract of a part of the…
- n. A slight taste superadded to any substance.
- n. A slight quality added to anything; a tinge.
- v. to stain or impregnate (something) with colour.
- v. (figuratively) to tinge; to taint.
- v. To soak (an organic substance) in alcohol or another liquid to produce a tincture.
touch- v. Primarily physical senses.
- v. Primarily non-physical senses.
- v. To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
- v. To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
- v. (obsolete) To infect; to affect slightly.
- v. To strike; to manipulate; to play on.
- v. To perform, as a tune; to play.
- v. To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
- n. An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.
- n. The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.
- n. The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.
- n. A distinguishing feature or characteristic.
- n. A little bit; a small amount.
- n. The part of a sports field beyond the touchlines or goal-lines.
- n. A relationship of close communication or understanding.
- n. The ability to perform a task well; aptitude.
- n. (obsolete) Act or power of exciting emotion.
- n. (obsolete) An emotion or affection.
- n. (obsolete) Personal reference or application.
- n. A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
- n. (obsolete) A brief essay.
- n. (obsolete) A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone.
- n. (obsolete) Examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality.
- n. (music) The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument…
- n. (shipbuilding) The broadest part of a plank worked top and but, or of one worked anchor-stock fashion…
- n. The children's game of tag.
- n. (bell-ringing) A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, i.e. less than 5,040.
- n. (slang) An act of borrowing or stealing something.
- n. (Britain, plumbing, dated) tallow.
tracing- n. The reproduction of an image made by copying it through translucent paper.
- n. A record in the form of a graph made by a device such as a seismograph.
- n. The process of finding something that is lost by studying evidence.
- n. A regular path or track; a course.
track- n. A mark left by something that has passed along.
- n. A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or animal.
- n. The entire lower surface of the foot; said of birds, etc.
- n. A road or other similar beaten path.
- n. Physical course; way.
- n. A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc.
- n. The direction and progress of someone or something; path.
- n. (railways) The way or rails along which a train moves.
- n. A tract or area, such as of land.
- n. Awareness of something, especially when arising from close monitoring.
- n. (automotive) The distance between two opposite wheels on a same axletree (also track width).
- n. (automotive) Short for caterpillar track.
- n. (cricket) The pitch.
- n. Sound stored on a record.
- n. The physical track on a record.
- n. (music) A song or other relatively short piece of music, on a record, separated from others by a short…
- n. A circular (never-ending) data storage unit on a side of magnetic or optical disk, divided into sectors.
- n. (uncountable, sports) The racing events of track and field; track and field in general.
- n. A session talk on a conference.
- v. To continue observing over time.
- v. (transitive) To follow the tracks of.
- v. (transitive or intransitive) To create a musical recording (a track).
trail- v. (transitive) To follow behind (someone or something); to tail (someone or something).
- v. (transitive) To drag (something) behind on the ground.
- v. (transitive) To leave (a trail of).
- v. (transitive) To show a trailer of (a film, TV show etc.); to release or publish a preview of (a report…
- v. To be losing, to be behind in a competition.
- v. (military) To carry (a firearm) with the breech near the ground and the upper part inclined forward, the…
- v. To flatten (grass, etc.) by walking through it; to tread down.
- v. (dated) To take advantage of the ignorance of; to impose upon.
- n. The track or indication marking the route followed by something that has passed, such as the footprints…
- n. A route for travel over land, especially a narrow, unpaved pathway for use by hikers, horseback riders,…
- n. A trailer broadcast on television for a forthcoming film or programme.
- n. (graph theory) A walk in which all the edges are distinct.
vestige- n. The mark of the foot left on the earth; a track or footstep; a trace; a sign.
- n. A faint mark or visible sign left by something which is lost, or has perished, or is no longer present;…
- n. (biology) A vestigial organ; a non-functional organ or body part that was once functional in an evolutionary…
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