Sentence examples for word trace from inspiring English sources

Tells how Dr. Vizetelly and his assistants seize upon a new word, trace its history, definition, and origin before it is inserted... Discusses several of the so-called modern words such as whoopee which may be found in Shakespeare's works; flapper which was used by Elizabetheans in the Seventeenth century.

Or in other words, trace amounts of molecules at a concentration of 1.5 ppb can be detected in 20 s as long as they are charged, which is not possible using a standard mechanism of diffusion where a concentration of 6 ppm is required to get above the noise level of the instrument.

In "Spell It Out," Crystal, a linguist whose previous books include "The Story of English in 100 Words," traces those practices.

This odyssey, in Bellow's own words, traces "a widening spiral that begins in the parish, ghetto, slum and spreads into the greater world", much as his own life did.

In a 2003 article for the New York Law Journal, he wrote that there was one question he was asked more than any other when he spoke to school children: "Why do judges wear robes?" He followed with an answer of more than 1,000 words, tracing the robes and their predominant color, black, to England in the Middle Ages.

Both the memory literature and folk psychology support the notion of visual examples being beneficial the adage of "a picture is worth a thousand words" (traced back to an advertising slogan from the 1920s; Meider, 1990).

"The Living Word 3" traces the Chinese character for "niao," meaning bird, from the current simplified version to its earliest written expression in ancient Chinese.

To prepare them for slaughter, the cows must be given time to get any residue -- the word means traces of drugs -- out of their systems.

As Ms. Stenham said those words, a trace of anger could be heard in her voice, and she acknowledged that the play reflected "a rage that I, and several young British female playwrights right now, are feeling".

(Who would guess that a household, no less than a city, can be a melting pot?) His father and Oliver enjoy a clash of wits about the twisted root of the word "apricot," tracing it through Arabic, Latin, and Greek, and mentioning that one branch leads to the word "precocious" — a nod to Elio, who listens to them with half a smile.

In other words, multiple trace parsers can be used to handle the kernel traces, regardless of the operating system on which they were recorded, or the tracer used, as long as the trace format is open.