All 3 Uses of
trace
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- There remained no trace of the tram itself nor of the tram-men nor of the horses: nor did he and she appear vividly.†
Chpt 2 *
- It shocked him to find in the outer world a trace of what he had deemed till then a brutish and individual malady of his own mind.†
Chpt 2
- They had unearthed traces of a Cork accent in his speech and made him admit that the Lee was a much finer river than the Liffey.†
Chpt 2
Definition:
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(trace as in: found a trace of) a small quantity; or any indication or evidence ofThe exact meaning of this sense of trace depends upon its context. For example:
- a small indication that something was present -- as in "The plane disappeared somewhere over the Pacific Ocean without leaving a trace."
- a very small amount of something -- as in "The blood test showed a trace of steroids."
- any evidence of something -- as in "We did not find a trace of the gene."