Tracing

Definition

trace 1 /treÇs/ n ၁။ [C, U] တစ္စြန္းတစ္စ က်န္ရိွေသာ လကၡဏာ။ သဲလြန္စ။ traces of prehistoric habitation ❍ The police have been unable to find any trace of the gang. ❍ We've lost all trace of him (ie We no longer know where he is). ❍ The ship had vanished without trace. ၂။ [C] အရိပ္အေယာင္။ စိုးစဥ္း။ တစိုးတစိ။ The post-mortem revealed traces of poison in her stomach. ❍ He spoke without a trace of bitterness. v ၁။ ~ sb/sth (to sth) လိုက္ရွာသည္။ ေျခရာေကာက္သည္။ attempts to trace a missing 5-year-old ❍ I cannot trace the letter to which you refer. ၂။ (က) ~ sth (back) (to sth) ဇာစ္ျမစ္ကို လိုက္သည္။ ေျခရာခံသည္။ He traces his descent back to the Pilgrim Fathers. ❍ The cause of the fire was traced to a faulty fuse-box. (ခ) ေျခရာခံသည္။ ေျခရာေကာက္သည္။ Her book traces the town's history from Saxon times to the present day. ၃။ ေျခရာခံသည္။ archaeologists tracing the course of a Roman road ❍ They traced the footprints to an old shed. ၄။ ~ sth (out) (ပံုၾကမ္း) ေလာင္းသည္။ ေကာက္ေၾကာင္းလိုက္သည္။ Those who came later followed the policies he had traced out. ၅။ ထပ္ကူးသည္။ ❏ traceable adj ေနာက္ေၾကာင္းျပန္လိုက္ႏိုင္ေသာ။ ေျခရာခံႏိုင္ ေသာ။ a tradition that is traceable to the 15th century. ❏ trace element n သက္ရိွတို႔ရွင္သန္မႈအတြက္ စဥ္းငယ္မွ် မရိွမျဖစ္လိုအပ္ေသာ ဓာတုပစၥည္းမ်ဳိး။ ❏ tracer n ၁။ မီးက်ည္။ tracer bullets. ၂။ ဓာတု၊ ဇီဝ ျဖစ္စဥ္မ်ားကို ေလ့လာႏိုင္ရန္ ခႏၶာကိုယ္ စသည္အတြင္း ျဖတ္သန္း ေစရေသာ ေရဒီယိုသတၱိႂကြ ျဒပ္ပစၥည္း။ ❏ tracing n စကၠဴပါးျဖင့္ထပ္ကူးထားေသာ ေျမပံု၊ ႐ုပ္ပံု မိတၱဴ။ ❏ tracing-paper n [U] စကၠဴပါး။ ထပ္ကူးစကၠဴ။ trace 2 /treÇs/ n (usu pl ) ရထား၊ လွည္းတြင္ ျမင္း၊ ႏြား ကေသာ ႀကိဳး။ ❍ HARNESS

Examples

1. Detectives have so far failed to trace the missing woman.
2. [trace someone to something] : They finally traced him to a town in Sicily.
3. Rita decided to trace her family roots.
4. [trace something back to something] : Many phobias can be traced back to childhood experiences.
5. [trace something to something] : The bug was traced to milk from a farm in Yorkshire.
6. The book traces the history of the regiment.
7. He lifted his hand to trace the line of her cheekbone.