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An act of tracing.

An enquiry sent out for a missing article, such as a letter or an express package.

A mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal. +

A very small amount, often residual, of some substance or material. +

(meteorology) A small amount of rain, not enough to be measured.

(electronics) A 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.

(engineering) A connecting bar or rod, pivoted at each end to the end of another piece, for transmitting motion, especially from one plane to another; specifically, such a piece in an organ stop action to transmit motion from the trundle to the lever actuating the stop slider.

(fortification) The ground plan of a work or works.

(geometry) The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.

(Q321102) (linear algebra) The sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix.

(grammar) An empty category occupying a position in the syntactic structure from which something has been moved, used to explain constructions such as wh-movement and the passive.

(programming) A sequence of instructions, including branches but not loops, that is executed for some input data.

(semiotics) A signifier approximated in the absence of stable signified.

(adj-small) Extremely small or insignificant (of an amount or quantity).

To follow the trail of.

To follow the history of.

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.

(obsolete) To walk; to go; to travel.

(obsolete) To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.

To follow the execution of the program by making it to stop after every instruction, or by making it print a message after every step.