trace · verb
Sens et exemples
Découvrir l’origine ou la cause de quelque chose en menant une recherche.
Engineers traced the fault to a damaged cable beneath the control panel.
She traced the quotation to a speech delivered many years earlier.
The company is trying to trace the source of several incorrect invoices.
Researchers traced the material back to a workshop near the old harbour.
Formes
- trace base form
- traces third-person singular present
- traced past tense; past participle
- tracing present participle