trace

/treɪs/

意味: 跡、痕跡

例文: The police found no trace of him.
　　  警察は彼の痕跡を見つけられなかった。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: trace a path(道筋をたどる), trace a line(線を引く), trace a source(源をたどる)

定義: 何かを見つけるためにたどることや、何かの形をなぞることを意味します。例えば、過去の出来事を調べたり、紙に線を引いたりすることです。また、何かの起源や原因を探ることも含まれます。

traceは約60,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

　年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

　

Definitions(定義)

Noun: a just detectable amount
Noun: an indication that something has been present
Noun: a suggestion of some quality
Noun: a drawing created by superimposing a semitransparent sheet of paper on the original image and copying on it the lines of the original image
Noun: either of two lines that connect a horse’s harness to a wagon or other vehicle or to a whiffletree
Noun: a visible mark (as a footprint) left by the passage of person or animal or vehicle
Verb: follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something
Verb: make a mark or lines on a surface
Verb: to go back over again
Verb: pursue or chase relentlessly
Verb: discover traces of
Verb: make one’s course or travel along a path; travel or pass over, around, or along
Verb: copy by following the lines of the original drawing on a transparent sheet placed upon it; make a tracing of
Verb: read with difficulty

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

She found a trace of dust on the shelf.(彼女は棚のほこりの跡を見つけた。)
The detective followed the trace to the suspect’s house.(探偵は手がかりをたどって容疑者の家に行った。)
Scientists trace the origins of ancient artifacts carefully.(科学者たちは古代の遺物の起源を慎重に追跡する。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Noun: he speaks French with a trace of an accent
Noun: there wasn’t a trace of evidence for the claim
Noun: a tincture of condescension
Noun: there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone
Noun: he detected a ghost of a smile on her face
Verb: We must follow closely the economic development is Cuba
Verb: trace the student’s progress
Verb: draw a line
Verb: trace the outline of a figure in the sand
Verb: we retraced the route we took last summer
Verb: trace your path
Verb: The hunters traced the deer into the woods
Verb: the detectives hounded the suspect until they found him
Verb: She traced the circumstances of her birth
Verb: The children traced along the edge of the dark forest
Verb: The women traced the pasture
Verb: trace a design
Verb: trace a pattern
Verb: Can you decipher this letter?
Verb: The archeologist traced the hieroglyphs

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): decipher, delineate, describe, draw, follow, ghost, hint, hound, hunt, line, retrace, shadow, suggestion, tincture, touch, trace, tracing, vestige

Antonyms(反意語):

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): analyze, chase, copy, detect, drawing, indication, line, mark, proceed, read, return, small indefinite quantity, suggestion

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): anagram, anatomize, assay, audit, back up, backtrack, becket, bespot, boomerang, bounce, brand, charcoal, check, clone, compare, cord, couple, crisscross, crumb, cut back, dab, decipher, delineation, diagnose, diagram, dimple, dip into, dollop, dot, dreg, drop, evidence, find out, fingerprint, flag, footprint, gesture, glimpse, go home, hair’s-breadth, handful, harbinger, head, hectograph, helping, hint, home, hoofprint, hound, imitate, ink, instantiate, investigate, jack, lanyard, lifeline, limp, line, lipread, little, manifestation, manifold, mark, mechanical drawing, mimeograph, minimum, mintmark, modicum, mooring, morsel, nip, nose, overture, painter, pen-and-ink, plan, pointing out, quest, raddle, ratline, rendering, reread, resurrect, return, review, revisit, roar, roneo, rope, run down, scattering, screen, scribble, see, sense, sheet, shoestring, shred, shroud, shtik, sieve, signalization, silhouette, silverpoint, sketch, skim, smoke, speck, spot, spray, stake, star, step, stick figure, stigmatize, strand, striate, stripe, stroke, survey, symptom, tad, taste, tip, tot, touch, towline, trace, tracing, tree, underline, view, wander

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): circumscribe, construct, ferret, footprint, inscribe, spark, write

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: delineation, drawing, hound, hunt, hunter, line, lineation, trace, tracer, tracing

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: science

Usage Category: formal

Usage Context: conversation, descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
intransitive verb, transitive verb
countable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Diary of a Wimpy Kid 1, Holes

Movies(映画):

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) No

Emotion Categories: