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Hunt and Trace Definitions

Hunt

To pursue (game) for food or sport.

Trace

A visible mark, such as a footprint, made or left by the passage of a person, animal, or thing.

Hunt

To search through (an area) for prey
Hunted the ridges.

Trace

Evidence or an indication of the former presence or existence of something; a vestige
Left without a trace of having been there.

Hunt

To make use of (hounds, for example) in pursuing game.

Trace

An extremely small amount or barely perceivable indication
Spoke with a trace of sarcasm.
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Hunt

To pursue intensively so as to capture or kill
Hunted down the escaped convict.

Trace

A constituent, such as a chemical compound or element, present in quantities less than a standard limit.

Hunt

To seek out; search for.

Trace

A path or trail that has been beaten out by the passage of animals or people.

Hunt

To drive out forcibly, especially by harassing; chase away
Hunted the newcomers out of town.

Trace

An act of researching or ascertaining the origin or location of something
Put a trace on the phone call.
Asked for a trace on a lost package.
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Hunt

To pursue game.

Trace

A line drawn by a recording instrument, such as a cardiograph.

Hunt

To make a search; seek.

Trace

The point at which a line, or the curve in which a surface, intersects a coordinate plane.

Hunt

To yaw back and forth about a flight path, as if seeking a new direction or another angle of attack. Used of an aircraft, rocket, or space vehicle.

Trace

The sum of the elements of the principal diagonal of a matrix.
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Hunt

To rotate up and down or back and forth without being deflected by the pilot. Used of a control surface or a rocket motor in gimbals.

Trace

An engram.

Hunt

To oscillate about a selected value. Used of a machine, instrument, or system.

Trace

One of two side straps or chains connecting a harnessed draft animal to a vehicle or whiffletree.

Hunt

To swing back and forth; oscillate. Used of an indicator on a display or instrument panel.

Trace

A bar or rod, hinged at either end to another part, that transfers movement from one part of a machine to another.

Hunt

The act or sport of hunting
An enthusiast for the hunt.

Trace

To go along or follow (a path, for example)
We traced the trail up the mountain.

Hunt

A hunting expedition or outing, usually with horses and hounds.

Trace

To follow the course or trail of
Trace a wounded deer.

Hunt

Those taking part in such an expedition or outing.

Trace

To ascertain the successive stages in the development or progress of
Tracing the life cycle of an insect.
Trace the history of a family.

Hunt

The hunting season for a particular animal
Last year's deer hunt.

Trace

To discover or determine by searching or researching evidence
Trace the cause of a disease.

Hunt

A diligent search or pursuit
On a hunt for cheap gas.

Trace

To locate or ascertain the origin of
Traced the money to a foreign bank account.

Hunt

(ambitransitive) To find or search for an animal in the wild with the intention of killing the animal for its meat or for sport.
State Wildlife Management areas often offer licensed hunters the opportunity to hunt on public lands.
Her uncle will go out and hunt for deer, now that it is open season.

Trace

To draw (a line or figure); sketch; delineate.

Hunt

(ambitransitive) To try to find something; search (for).
The little girl was hunting for shells on the beach.
The police are hunting for evidence.

Trace

To form (letters) with special concentration or care.

Hunt

(transitive) To drive; to chase; with down, from, away, etc.
To hunt down a criminal
He was hunted from the parish.

Trace

To copy by following lines seen through a sheet of transparent paper.

Hunt

(transitive) To use or manage (dogs, horses, etc.) in hunting.
Did you hunt that pony last week?

Trace

To follow closely (a prescribed pattern)
The skater traced a figure eight.

Hunt

(transitive) To use or traverse in pursuit of game.
He hunts the woods, or the country.

Trace

To imprint (a design) by pressure with an instrument on a superimposed pattern.

Hunt

To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.

Trace

To make a design or series of markings on (a surface) by such pressure on a pattern.

Hunt

To shift up and down in order regularly.

Trace

To record (a variable), as on a graph.

Hunt

To be in a state of instability of movement or forced oscillation, as a governor which has a large movement of the balls for small change of load, an arc-lamp clutch mechanism which moves rapidly up and down with variations of current, etc.; also, to seesaw, as a pair of alternators working in parallel.

Trace

To make one's way along a trail or course
We traced along the ridge.

Hunt

The act of hunting.

Trace

To have origins; be traceable
Linguistic features that trace to West Africa.

Hunt

A hunting expedition.

Trace

Occurring in extremely small amounts or in quantities less than a standard limit.

Hunt

An organization devoted to hunting, or the people belonging to it.

Trace

An act of tracing.
Your cell phone company can put a trace on your line.

Hunt

A pack of hunting dogs.

Trace

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

Hunt

To search for or follow after, as game or wild animals; to chase; to pursue for the purpose of catching or killing; to follow with dogs or guns for sport or exercise; as, to hunt a deer.
Like a dog, he hunts in dreams.

Trace

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

Hunt

To search diligently after; to seek; to pursue; to follow; - often with out or up; as, to hunt up the facts; to hunt out evidence.
Evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.

Trace

A residue of some substance or material.
There are traces of chocolate around your lips.

Hunt

To drive; to chase; - with down, from, away, etc.; as, to hunt down a criminal; he was hunted from the parish.

Trace

A very small amount.
All of our chocolates may contain traces of nuts.

Hunt

To use or manage in the chase, as hounds.
He hunts a pack of dogs.

Trace

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

Hunt

To use or traverse in pursuit of game; as, he hunts the woods, or the country.

Trace

An informal road or prominent path in an arid area.

Hunt

To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.

Trace

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.

Hunt

To follow the chase; to go out in pursuit of game; to course with hounds.
Esau went to the field to hunt for venison.

Trace

(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.

Hunt

To seek; to pursue; to search; - with for or after.
He after honor hunts, I after love.

Trace

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

Hunt

To be in a state of instability of movement or forced oscillation, as a governor which has a large movement of the balls for small change of load, an arc-lamp clutch mechanism which moves rapidly up and down with variations of current, or the like; also, to seesaw, as a pair of alternators working in parallel.

Trace

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

Hunt

To shift up and down in order regularly.

Trace

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

Hunt

The act or practice of chasing wild animals; chase; pursuit; search.
The hunt is up; the morn is bright and gray.

Trace

(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.

Hunt

The game secured in the hunt.

Trace

(transitive) To follow the trail of.

Hunt

A pack of hounds.

Trace

To follow the history of.

Hunt

An association of huntsmen.

Trace

(transitive) To draw or sketch lightly or with care.
He carefully traced the outlines of the old building before him.

Hunt

A district of country hunted over.
Every landowner within the hunt.

Trace

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

Hunt

Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910)

Trace

To copy; to imitate.

Hunt

United States architect (1827-1895)

Trace

To walk; to go; to travel.

Hunt

British writer who defended the romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859)

Trace

To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.

Hunt

An association of huntsmen who hunt for sport

Trace

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.

Hunt

An instance of searching for something;
The hunt for submarines

Trace

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.

Hunt

The activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone

Trace

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.

Hunt

The work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts

Trace

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.

Hunt

The pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport

Trace

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.

Hunt

Pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals);
Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland
The dogs are running deer
The Duke hunted in these woods

Trace

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.

Hunt

Pursue or chase relentlessly;
The hunters traced the deer into the woods
The detectives hounded the suspect until they found the him

Trace

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

Hunt

Chase away, with as with force;
They hunted the the unwanted immigrants out of the neighborhood

Trace

The ground plan of a work or works.

Hunt

Yaw back and forth about a flight path;
The plane's nose yawed

Trace

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.

Hunt

Oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent;
The oscillator hunts about the correct frequency

Trace

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.

Hunt

Seek, search for;
She hunted for her reading glasses but was unable to locate them

Trace

Hence, to follow the trace or track of.
How all the way the prince on footpace traced.

Hunt

Search (an area) for prey;
The King used to hunt these forests

Trace

To copy; to imitate.
That servile path thou nobly dost decline,Of tracing word, and line by line.

Trace

To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.
We do tracethis alley up and down.

Trace

To walk; to go; to travel.
Not wont on foot with heavy arms to trace.

Trace

A just detectable amount;
He speaks French with a trace of an accent

Trace

An indication that something has been present;
There wasn't a trace of evidence for the claim
A tincture of condescension

Trace

A suggestion of some quality;
There was a touch of sarcasm in his tone
He detected a ghost of a smile on her face

Trace

Drawing created by tracing

Trace

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

Trace

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

Trace

Follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something;
We must follow closely the economic development is Cuba
Trace the student's progress

Trace

Make a mark or lines on a surface;
Draw a line
Trace the outline of a figure in the sand

Trace

To go back over again;
We retraced the route we took last summer
Trace your path

Trace

Pursue or chase relentlessly;
The hunters traced the deer into the woods
The detectives hounded the suspect until they found the him

Trace

Discover traces of;
She traced the circumstances of her birth

Trace

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

Trace

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

Trace

Read with difficulty;
Can you decipher this letter?
The archeologist traced the hieroglyphs

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