Trace vs. Follow

Tracenoun

An act of tracing.

‘Your cell phone company can put a trace on your line.’;

Followverb

(transitive) To go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction.

‘Follow that car!’;

Tracenoun

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

Followverb

(transitive) To go or come after in a sequence.

‘B follows A in the alphabet.’; ‘We both ordered the soup, with roast beef to follow.’;

Tracenoun

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

Followverb

(transitive) To carry out (orders, instructions, etc.).

‘Follow these instructions to the letter.’;

Tracenoun

A residue of some substance or material.

‘There are traces of chocolate around your lips.’;

Followverb

(transitive) To live one's life according to (religion, teachings, etc).

Tracenoun

A very small amount.

‘All of our chocolates may contain traces of nuts.’;

Followverb

(transitive) To understand, to pay attention to.

‘Do you follow me?’;

Tracenoun

(electronics) A current-carrying conductive pathway on a printed circuit board.

Followverb

(transitive) To watch, to keep track of (reports of) some event or person.

‘I followed the incumbent throughout the election.’; ‘My friends don't regularly follow the news.’;

Tracenoun

An informal road or prominent path in an arid area.

Followverb

(transitive) To be a logical consequence of.

‘It follows that if two numbers are not equal then one is larger than the other.’;

Tracenoun

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.

Followverb

(transitive) To walk in, as a road or course; to attend upon closely, as a profession or calling.

Tracenoun

(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.

Follownoun

In billiards and similar games, a stroke causing a ball to follow another ball after hitting it.

‘a follow shot’;

Tracenoun

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

Follownoun

(internet) The act of following another user's online activity.

Tracenoun

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

Followverb

To go or come after; to move behind in the same path or direction; hence, to go with (a leader, guide, etc.); to accompany; to attend.

‘It waves me forth again; I'll follow it.’;

Tracenoun

(mathematics) The sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix.

Followverb

To endeavor to overtake; to go in pursuit of; to chase; to pursue; to prosecute.

‘I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall follow them.’;

Tracenoun

(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.

Followverb

To accept as authority; to adopt the opinions of; to obey; to yield to; to take as a rule of action; as, to follow good advice.

‘Approve the best, and follow what I approve’; ‘Follow peace with all men.’; ‘It is most agreeable to some men to follow their reason; and to others to follow their appetites.’;

Traceverb

(transitive) To follow the trail of.

Followverb

To copy after; to take as an example.

‘We had rather follow the perfections of them whom we like not, than in defects resemble them whom we love.’;

Traceverb

To follow the history of.

Followverb

To succeed in order of time, rank, or office.

Traceverb

(transitive) To draw or sketch lightly or with care.

‘He carefully traced the outlines of the old building before him.’;

Followverb

To result from, as an effect from a cause, or an inference from a premise.

Traceverb

(transitive) To copy onto a sheet of paper superimposed over the original, by drawing over its lines.

Followverb

To watch, as a receding object; to keep the eyes fixed upon while in motion; to keep the mind upon while in progress, as a speech, musical performance, etc.; also, to keep up with; to understand the meaning, connection, or force of, as of a course of thought or argument.

‘He followed with his eyes the flitting shade.’;

Traceverb

To copy; to imitate.

Followverb

To walk in, as a road or course; to attend upon closely, as a profession or calling.

‘O, had I but followed the arts!’; ‘O Antony! I have followed thee to this.’;

Traceverb

To walk; to go; to travel.

Followverb

To go or come after; - used in the various senses of the transitive verb: To pursue; to attend; to accompany; to be a result; to imitate.

Traceverb

To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.

Follownoun

The art or process of following; specif., in some games, as billiards, a stroke causing a ball to follow another ball after hitting it. Also used adjectively; as, follow shot.

Traceverb

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.

Followverb

to travel behind, go after, come after;

‘The ducklings followed their mother around the pond’; ‘Please follow the guide through the museum’;

Tracenoun

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.

Followverb

be later in time;

‘Tuesday always follows Monday’;

Tracenoun

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.

Followverb

come as a logical consequence; follow logically;

‘It follows that your assertion is false’; ‘the theorem falls out nicely’;

Tracenoun

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.

Followverb

travel along a certain course;

‘follow the road’; ‘follow the trail’;

Tracenoun

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.

Followverb

act in accordance with someone's rules, commands, or wishes;

‘He complied with my instructions’; ‘You must comply or else!’; ‘Follow these simple rules’; ‘abide by the rules’;

Tracenoun

A mark, impression, or visible appearance of anything left when the thing itself no longer exists; remains; token; vestige.

‘The shady empire shall retain no traceOf war or blood, but in the sylvan chase.’;

Followverb

come after in time, as a result;

‘A terrible tsunami followed the earthquake’;

Tracenoun

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

Followverb

behave in accordance or in agreement with;

‘Follow a pattern’; ‘Follow my example’;

Tracenoun

The ground plan of a work or works.

Followverb

be next;

‘Mary plays best, with John and Sue following’;

Traceverb

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.

‘Some faintly traced features or outline of the mother and the child, slowly lading into the twilight of the woods.’;

Followverb

choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans;

‘She followed the feminist movement’; ‘The candidate espouses Republican ideals’;

Traceverb

To follow by some mark that has been left by a person or thing which has preceded; to follow by footsteps, tracks, or tokens.

‘You may trace the deluge quite round the globe.’; ‘I feel thy power . . . to trace the waysOf highest agents.’;

Followverb

to bring something about at a later time than;

‘She followed dinner with a brandy’; ‘He followed his lecture with a question and answer period’;

Traceverb

Hence, to follow the trace or track of.

‘How all the way the prince on footpace traced.’;

Followverb

imitate in behavior; take as a model;

‘Teenagers follow their friends in everything’;

Traceverb

To copy; to imitate.

‘That servile path thou nobly dost decline,Of tracing word, and line by line.’;

Followverb

follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something;

‘We must follow closely the economic development is Cuba’; ‘trace the student's progress’;

Traceverb

To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.

‘We do tracethis alley up and down.’;

Followverb

follow with the eyes or the mind;

‘Keep an eye on the baby, please!’; ‘The world is watching Sarajevo’; ‘She followed the men with the binoculars’;

Traceverb

To walk; to go; to travel.

‘Not wont on foot with heavy arms to trace.’;

Followverb

be the successor (of);

‘Carter followed Ford’; ‘Will Charles succeed to the throne?’;

Tracenoun

a just detectable amount;

‘he speaks French with a trace of an accent’;

Followverb

perform an accompaniment to;

‘The orchestra could barely follow the frequent pitch changes of the soprano’;

Tracenoun

an indication that something has been present;

‘there wasn't a trace of evidence for the claim’; ‘a tincture of condescension’;

Followverb

keep informed;

‘He kept up on his country's foreign policies’;

Tracenoun

a suggestion of some quality;

‘there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone’; ‘he detected a ghost of a smile on her face’;

Followverb

to be the product or result;

‘Melons come from a vine’; ‘Understanding comes from experience’;

Tracenoun

drawing created by tracing

Followverb

accept and follow the leadership or command or guidance of;

‘Let's follow our great helmsman!’; ‘She followed a guru for years’;

Tracenoun

either of two lines that connect a horse's harness to a wagon or other vehicle or to a whiffletree

Followverb

adhere to or practice;

‘These people still follow the laws of their ancient religion’;

Tracenoun

a visible mark (as a footprint) left by the passage of person or animal or vehicle

Followverb

work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function;

‘He is a herpetologist’; ‘She is our resident philosopher’;

Traceverb

follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something;

‘We must follow closely the economic development is Cuba’; ‘trace the student's progress’;

Followverb

keep under surveillance;

‘The police had been following him for weeks but they could not prove his involvement in the bombing’;

Traceverb

make a mark or lines on a surface;

‘draw a line’; ‘trace the outline of a figure in the sand’;

Followverb

follow in or as if in pursuit;

‘The police car pursued the suspected attacker’; ‘Her bad deed followed her and haunted her dreams all her life’;

Traceverb

to go back over again;

‘we retraced the route we took last summer’; ‘trace your path’;

Followverb

grasp the meaning;

‘Can you follow her argument?’; ‘When he lectures, I cannot follow’;

Traceverb

pursue or chase relentlessly;

‘The hunters traced the deer into the woods’; ‘the detectives hounded the suspect until they found the him’;

Followverb

keep to;

‘Stick to your principles’; ‘stick to the diet’;

Traceverb

discover traces of;

‘She traced the circumstances of her birth’;

Followverb

go or come after (a person or thing proceeding ahead); move or travel behind

‘the men followed in another car’; ‘she went back into the house, and Ben followed her’;

Traceverb

make one's course or travel along a path; travel or pass over, around, or along;

‘The children traced along the edge of the drak forest’; ‘The women traced the pasture’;

Followverb

go after (someone) in order to observe or monitor them

‘the KGB man followed her everywhere’;

Traceverb

copy by following the lines of the original drawing on a transparent sheet placed upon it; make a tracing of;

‘trace a design’; ‘trace a pattern’;

Followverb

strive after; aim at

‘I follow fame’;

Traceverb

read with difficulty;

‘Can you decipher this letter?’; ‘The archeologist traced the hieroglyphs’;

Followverb

go along (a route or path).

Traceverb

find or discover by investigation

‘police are trying to trace a white van seen in the area’;

Followverb

(of a route or path) go in the same direction as or parallel to (another)

‘the road follows the track of the railway line’;

Traceverb

find or describe the origin or development of

‘Bob's book traces his flying career with the RAF’;

Followverb

trace the movement or direction of

‘she followed his gaze, peering into the gloom’;

Traceverb

follow or mark the course or position of (something) with one's eye, mind, or finger

‘through the binoculars, I traced the path I had taken the night before’;

Followverb

come after in time or order

‘the rates are as follows’; ‘the six years that followed his restoration’;

Traceverb

take (a particular path or route)

‘a tear traced a lonely path down her cheek’;

Followverb

happen after (something else) as a consequence

‘raucous laughter followed the ribald remark’; ‘retribution soon followed’; ‘the announcement followed on from the collapse of the merchant bank’;

Traceverb

copy (a drawing, map, or design) by drawing over its lines on a superimposed piece of transparent paper

‘trace a map of the world on to a large piece of paper’;

Followverb

be a logical consequence of something

‘it thus follows from this equation that the value must be negative’;

Traceverb

draw (a pattern or line), especially with one's finger or toe

‘she traced a pattern in the dirt with the toe of her shoe’;

Followverb

(of a person) do something after (something else)

‘they follow their March show with four UK dates next month’;

Traceverb

give an outline of

‘the article traces out some of the connections between education, qualifications, and the labour market’;

Followverb

have (a dish or course) after another or others during a meal

‘turkey was followed by dessert’;

Tracenoun

a mark, object, or other indication of the existence or passing of something

‘remove all traces of the old adhesive’; ‘the aircraft disappeared without trace’;

Followverb

act according to (an instruction or precept)

‘he has difficulty in following written instructions’;

Tracenoun

a line or pattern displayed by an instrument to show the existence or nature of something which is being recorded or measured.

Followverb

conform to

‘the film faithfully follows Shakespeare's plot’;

Tracenoun

a physical change in the brain presumed to be caused by a process of learning or memory.

Followverb

act according to the lead or example of (someone)

‘he follows Aristotle in believing this’;

Tracenoun

a very small quantity, especially one too small to be accurately measured

‘his body contained traces of amphetamines’; ‘trace quantities of PCBs’;

Followverb

treat as a teacher or guide

‘those who seek to follow Jesus Christ’;

Tracenoun

a barely discernible indication of something

‘just a trace of a smile’;

Followverb

pay close attention to

‘I've been following this discussion closely’;

Tracenoun

a procedure to investigate the source of something, such as the place from which a telephone call was made

‘we've got a trace on the call’;

Followverb

take an active interest in or be a supporter of

‘supporters who have followed the club through thick and thin’;

Tracenoun

a line which represents the projection of a curve or surface on a plane or the intersection of a curve or surface with a plane.

Followverb

(of a book, film, programme, etc.) be concerned with or trace the development of

‘the book follows the life and career of Henry Clay’;

Tracenoun

a path or track.

Followverb

track (a person, group, or organization) by subscribing to their account on a social media website or application

‘I don't follow many celebrities on Twitter any more’; ‘if you've been following me on Facebook recently you may have seen a bunch of different posts about surgery and back trouble’;

Tracenoun

the sum of the elements in the principal diagonal of a square matrix.

Followverb

understand the meaning or tendency of (a speaker or argument)

‘I still don't follow you’;

Tracenoun

each of the two side straps, chains, or ropes by which a horse is attached to a vehicle that it is pulling.

Followverb

practise (a trade or profession).

Followverb

undertake or carry out (a course of action or study)

‘she followed a strict diet’;