AWL Sublist 6 · Academic Word

trace

/treɪs/ Syllables: trace

English Illustration

Arabic Translation & Context

Synonyms & Antonyms

To find the origin or path of something; a very small detectable amount.

Synonyms

track follow detect

Antonyms

lose ignore

Translations

trace in Arabic

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Arabic Meaning

يتتبع، أثر

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Easy Explanation (Arabic)

أن تجد أصل شيء أو طريقه، أو كمية صغيرة جدًا من شيء يمكنك رؤيتها أو الشعور بها.

Easy Explanation

To trace means to follow origins or paths. Historians trace policy ideas through archives while chemists detect trace amounts of contaminants.

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Memory TipTrace follows tracks — a path or a minute leftover amount.

Contextual Examples

Students trace citation networks to identify influential papers in their dissertation literature reviews.

Chemists detected trace contaminants that invalidated early results from the water quality assay.

The seminar assignment asks learners to trace how a legal doctrine evolved across jurisdictions.

Word Families & Pronunciation