| Principal Translations |
WordReference English-Spanish Dictionary © 2026:
trace [sth],
trace [sth] onto [sth]⇒ vtr | (outline) | trazar⇒ vtr |
| | | delinear⇒ vtr |
| | The architect traced the plans carefully. |
| | El arquitecto trazó los planos con cuidado. |
| trace [sb]⇒ vtr | (find) | encontrar vtr + prep |
| | Police are trying to trace witnesses to the accident. |
| | La policía está tratando de encontrar a los testigos del accidente. |
| trace [sth]⇒ vtr | (identify origin) | rastrear⇒ vtr |
| | | encontrar⇒ vtr |
| | The gas company is trying to trace the source of the leak. |
| | La compañía de gas está tratando de rastrear la fuente de la pérdida. |
| trace [sth] to [sb/sth] vtr + prep | (find origin, originator) | rastrear el origen de loc verb |
| | | buscar el origen de loc verb |
| | Karen finally traced the strange smell to the pile of clothes on her teenage daughter's bedroom floor. |
| | Karen finalmente rastreó el origen del olor: la pila de ropa de su hija adolescente. |
| trace [sth] vtr | (draw on translucent paper) | calcar⇒ vtr |
| | The schoolboy traced the map. |
| | El niño de escuela calcó el mapa. |
| trace [sth] to [sth] vtr + prep | (follow to source) | rastrear algo hasta loc verb |
| | Grace can trace her family tree to the sixteenth century. |
| | Grace puede rastrear su árbol genealógico hasta el siglo XVI. |
| trace n | (detectable amount) | rastro nm |
| | | pista nf |
| | | huella nf |
| | | marca nf |
| | There were traces of mud on the carpet where Simon had walked through without taking his boots off first. |
| | Había rastros de barro en la alfombra donde Simón había camino sin sacarse las botas. |
| trace n | (indication of presence) | rastro nm |
| | | vestigio nm |
| | | indicio nm |
| | | señal nf |
| | There are traces that Olivia has been home, but she isn't here now. |
| | Hay rastros de que Olivia ha estado en casa, pero ahora no está. |
| trace n | (tracking a phone call) (teléfono) | intervención nf |
| | The trace helped the police to catch the criminal. |
| | La intervención ayudó a la policía a encontrar al criminal. |