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Definition of trace : 1. 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.
2. 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.
3. A mark, impression, or visible appearance of anything left when the thing itself no longer exists; remains; token; vestige.
4. 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.
5. Hence, to follow the trace or track of.
6. 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.
7. The ground plan of a work or works.
8. The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.
9. To copy; to imitate.
10. To follow by some mark that has been left by a person or thing which has preceded; to follow by footsteps, tracks, or tokens.
11. 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.
12. To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.
13. To walk; to go; to travel.

Synonyms:

mark, relic, revolt, proffer, peculiarity, run along, eviscerate, ghostwriter, adopt, tail, tracing, hair, apparition, draw in, clue, whisker, hound, tip, sign, tactual sensation, tone, pull, vestige, spectre, signature, darkness, distinction, attribute, character, drag, reap, name, sprinkling, track, keep an eye on, delimitate, keep abreast, specify, feature, MARKS, hypnotism, print, sop up, identify, run, skin senses, comply, accompany, phantom, leftover, touch modality, nib, hint, nuance, property, keep up, phantasma, make, watch over, trail, force, touch sensation, decode, pull out, phantasm, throw off restraint, snippet, key out, spook, minimum, trifle, tactile sensation, cast, break away, ghost, feeling, touching, quality, disembowel, string, stick with, contact, sense of touch, characteristic, define, track down, indication, smell, succeed, specter, get out, intimation, suck, come after, absorb, retrace, footprint, shadow, withdraw, fantasm, big, decipher, observe, soupcon, jot, whisper, take after, shadower, streak, suspicion, pull in, rebel, tincture, reconstruct, suck up, hunt down, take out, guide, be, taste, confidential information, pass, remains, quarter, take up, proposition, wind, prompting, trait, evidence, attract, fragment, line, pull back, account, get, pursue, distinguish, wraith, draw off, key, thread, suggestion, shade, espouse, delimit, conform to, postdate, describe, construct, discover, report, stick to, cutaneous senses, steer, watch, lead, follow, pinch, take in, dark, tint, limn, tinge, singularity, mesmerism, breath, hunt, proof, puff, whiff, semblance, play along, draw and quarter, show, fall out, tie, imbibe, decrypt, abide by, soak up, surveil, tittle, survey, travel along, spot, come

edge, border, outline, fringe, limit, rim, bound, contour, ring

doodle, paint, render, illustrate, depict

figure, silhouette, circumscribe, form, frame, draft, sketch, draw, represent, plan, profile, delineate

grain, atom, iota, shred, scrap, pittance, dab, particle, smidgen, crumb, bit, granule, speck, flyspeck, touch, modicum, smithereen, whit, dash, drop, mite, morsel

replicate, imitate, reproduce, transcribe, duplicate, procreate, copy, clone

Usage examples:

• " Maybe I'll get a chance to trace those robbers," he said. - "Jack of the Pony Express", Frank V. Webster.
• The wire left no trace. - "Whispering Wires", Henry Leverage.
• However, I never could trace the steps. - "Guide to the Kindergarten and Intermediate Class and Moral Culture of Infancy.", Elizabeth P. Peabody Mary Mann.