Trace
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( v. t.) A mark, impression, or visible appearance of anything left when the thing itself no longer exists; remains; token; vestige.
(2): ( v. t.) To mark out; to draw or delineate with marks; especially, to copy, as a drawing or engraving, by following the lines and marking them on a sheet superimposed, through which they appear; as, to trace a figure or an outline; a traced drawing.
(3): ( v. t.) To follow by some mark that has been left by a person or thing which has preceded; to follow by footsteps, tracks, or tokens.
(4): ( v. t.) The ground plan of a work or works.
(5): ( n.) One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whiffletree attached to a vehicle or thing to be drawn; a tug.
(6): ( v. t.) A mark left by anything passing; a track; a path; a course; a footprint; a vestige; as, the trace of a carriage or sled; the trace of a deer; a sinuous trace.
(7): ( v. t.) A very small quantity of an element or compound in a given substance, especially when so small that the amount is not quantitatively determined in an analysis; - hence, in stating an analysis, often contracted to tr.
(8): ( n.) A connecting bar or rod, pivoted at each end to the end of another piece, for transmitting motion, esp. from one plane to another; specif., such a piece in an organ-stop action to transmit motion from the trundle to the lever actuating the stop slider.
(9): ( v. t.) The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.
(10): ( v. i.) To walk; to go; to travel.
(11): ( v. t.) Hence, to follow the trace or track of.
(12): ( v. t.) To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.
(13): ( v. t.) To copy; to imitate.
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [2]
"to follow up," is used of investigating or "tracing" a course of events, Luke 1:3 , where the writer, humbly differentiating himself from those who possessed an essential apostolic qualification, declares that he "traced the course of all things" (RV) about which he was writing (AV, "having had ... understanding, etc."). See Follow , No. 5.
signifies "that cannot be traced out" (a, negative, ex, for ek, "out," ichnos, "a track"), is rendered "past tracing out" in Romans 11:33 , RV (AV, "past finding out"); in Ephesians 3:8 , "unsearchable." See Find , Note (3), Unsearchable. In the Sept., Job 5:9; 9:10; 34:24 .
