tracer
See also: Tracer and tračer
English
Etymology
trace + -er
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtɹeɪsə(ɹ)/, [ˈtʃɹeɪsə(ɹ)]
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈtɹeɪsɚ/, [ˈtʃɹeɪsɚ]
- Rhymes: -eɪsə(ɹ)
Noun
tracer (plural tracers)
- (chemistry) A compound, element, or isotope used to track the progress or history of a natural process.
- A round of ammunition for a firearm that contains magnesium or another flammable substance arranged such that it will burn and produce a visible trail when fired in the dark.
- Synonyms: tracer ammunition, tracer bullet
- The act or state of tracking or investigating something.
- 1964, Galaxy Magazine (volume 23, issues 1-6, page 125)
- We have a five-man tracer on him now. He's heading for a Vorster cell on Michigan Boulevard, and he's drunk as a lord. Should we intercept him?
- 2011, Joint Commission Resources, Environment of Care Tracer Workbook, →ISBN, page 5:
- A surveyor typically conducts a tracer on his or her own and later meets up with the rest of the team to discuss findings.
- 2017, CardCaptorXP (lyrics), “From the Sewers”:
- Ain't never running but I'm a paper chasing
They gon catch up to me, they gon need a pacer
How they over-watching me without a tracer
- 1964, Galaxy Magazine (volume 23, issues 1-6, page 125)
- A request to trace the movements of a person or an object, such as a shipment.
- 2010, Claire Gilbert, A Runway for a Dream:
- The next morning when she awoke, she told Darcy what had happened, and Darcy agreed that she should go to the police and this time ask them if they could put a tracer on her incoming phone calls, just in case he called again.
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- A person who traces something.
- A device or instrument used to assist in making tracings.
Derived terms
- bead tracer
- dye tracer
- filtrate tracer
- flow tracer
- gas tracer
- intrinsic tracer
- packet tracer
- ray tracer
- signal tracer
- skip tracer
- tracer ammunition
- tracer bullet
- tracer element
- tracer log
- tracer round
- tracer shell
Translations
A chemical used to track the progress or history of a natural process
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A piece of ammunition for a firearm that contains magnesium or another flammable substance
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The act of tracking or investigating something
A person who traces something
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Anagrams
- Carter, Crater, arrect, carter, crater
French
Etymology
From Old French tracier, from Vulgar Latin *tractiō, from Latin tractum the past participle of trahō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʁa.se/
audio (file)
Verb
tracer
- (transitive) to draw or plot (a diagram), to trace out
- (transitive) to rule (a line)
- (informal) to buck up, hurry up
Conjugation
This verb is part of a group of -er verbs for which 'c' is softened to a 'ç' before the vowels 'a' and 'o'.
Conjugation of tracer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | tracer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | traçant /tʁa.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | tracé /tʁa.se/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | trace /tʁas/ | traces /tʁas/ | trace /tʁas/ | traçons /tʁa.sɔ̃/ | tracez /tʁa.se/ | tracent /tʁas/ |
| imperfect | traçais /tʁa.sɛ/ | traçais /tʁa.sɛ/ | traçait /tʁa.sɛ/ | tracions /tʁa.sjɔ̃/ | traciez /tʁa.sje/ | traçaient /tʁa.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | traçai /tʁa.se/ | traças /tʁa.sa/ | traça /tʁa.sa/ | traçâmes /tʁa.sam/ | traçâtes /tʁa.sat/ | tracèrent /tʁa.sɛʁ/ | |
| future | tracerai /tʁa.sʁe/ | traceras /tʁa.sʁa/ | tracera /tʁa.sʁa/ | tracerons /tʁa.sʁɔ̃/ | tracerez /tʁa.sʁe/ | traceront /tʁa.sʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | tracerais /tʁa.sʁɛ/ | tracerais /tʁa.sʁɛ/ | tracerait /tʁa.sʁɛ/ | tracerions /tʁa.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ | traceriez /tʁa.sə.ʁje/ | traceraient /tʁa.sʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) | present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | trace /tʁas/ | traces /tʁas/ | trace /tʁas/ | tracions /tʁa.sjɔ̃/ | traciez /tʁa.sje/ | tracent /tʁas/ |
| imperfect2 | traçasse /tʁa.sas/ | traçasses /tʁa.sas/ | traçât /tʁa.sa/ | traçassions /tʁa.sa.sjɔ̃/ | traçassiez /tʁa.sa.sje/ | traçassent /tʁa.sas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | trace /tʁas/ | — | traçons /tʁa.sɔ̃/ | tracez /tʁa.se/ | — | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Descendants
- German: trassieren
Further reading
- “tracer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.