Trace vs. Trance — What's the Difference?

Find or discover by investigation

Trance is a state of semi-consciousness in which a person is not self-aware and is either altogether unresponsive to external stimuli (but nevertheless capable of pursuing and realizing an aim) or is selectively responsive in following the directions of the person (if any) who has induced the trance. Trance states may occur involuntarily and unbidden.

Copy (a drawing, map, or design) by drawing over its lines on a superimposed piece of transparent paper

A hypnotic, cataleptic, or ecstatic state.

A mark, object, or other indication of the existence or passing of something

Detachment from one's physical surroundings, as in contemplation or daydreaming.

A very small quantity, especially one too small to be accurately measured

A semiconscious state, as between sleeping and waking; a daze.

A procedure to investigate the source of something, such as the place from which a telephone call was made

A genre of electronic dance music with a fast tempo, repetitive phrasing, and often a hypnotic effect.

A line which represents the projection of a curve or surface on a plane or the intersection of a curve or surface with a plane.

To put into a trance; entrance.

A path or track.

(countable) A dazed or unconscious condition.

The sum of the elements in the principal diagonal of a square matrix.

(countable) A state of awareness, concentration, or focus that filters experience and information (for example, a state of meditation or possession by some being).

Each of the two side straps, chains, or ropes by which a horse is attached to a vehicle that it is pulling.

A state of low response to stimulus and diminished, narrow attention; particularly one induced by hypnosis.

A visible mark, such as a footprint, made or left by the passage of a person, animal, or thing.

A tedious journey.

Evidence or an indication of the former presence or existence of something; a vestige

(ambitransitive) To (cause to) be in a trance; to entrance.

An extremely small amount or barely perceivable indication

To create in or via a trance.

A constituent, such as a chemical compound or element, present in quantities less than a standard limit.

To walk heavily or with some difficulty; to tramp, to trudge.

A path or trail that has been beaten out by the passage of animals or people.

To pass across or over; to traverse.

An act of researching or ascertaining the origin or location of something

To travel quickly over a long distance.

A line drawn by a recording instrument, such as a cardiograph.

A tedious journey.

The point at which a line, or the curve in which a surface, intersects a coordinate plane.

A state in which the soul seems to have passed out of the body into another state of being, or to be rapt into visions; an ecstasy.

The sum of the elements of the principal diagonal of a matrix.

A condition, often simulating death, in which there is a total suspension of the power of voluntary movement, with abolition of all evidences of mental activity and the reduction to a minimum of all the vital functions so that the patient lies still and apparently unconscious of surrounding objects, while the pulsation of the heart and the breathing, although still present, are almost or altogether imperceptible.

An engram.

To entrance.

One of two side straps or chains connecting a harnessed draft animal to a vehicle or whiffletree.

To pass over or across; to traverse.

A bar or rod, hinged at either end to another part, that transfers movement from one part of a machine to another.

To pass; to travel.

To go along or follow (a path, for example)

A psychological state induced by (or as if induced by) a magical incantation

To follow the course or trail of

A state of mind in which consciousness is fragile and voluntary action is poor or missing; a state resembling deep sleep

To ascertain the successive stages in the development or progress of

Attract; cause to be enamored;

To discover or determine by searching or researching evidence

To locate or ascertain the origin of

To draw (a line or figure); sketch; delineate.

To form (letters) with special concentration or care.

To copy by following lines seen through a sheet of transparent paper.

To follow closely (a prescribed pattern)

To imprint (a design) by pressure with an instrument on a superimposed pattern.

To make a design or series of markings on (a surface) by such pressure on a pattern.

To record (a variable), as on a graph.

To make one's way along a trail or course

To have origins; be traceable

Occurring in extremely small amounts or in quantities less than a standard limit.

An act of tracing.

An enquiry sent out for a missing article, such as a letter or an express package.

A mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal.

A residue of some substance or material.

A very small amount.

(electronics) A current-carrying conductive pathway on a printed circuit board.

An informal road or prominent path in an arid area.

One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whippletree attached to a vehicle or thing to be drawn; a tug.

(engineering) A connecting bar or rod, pivoted at each end to the end of another piece, for transmitting motion, especially from one plane to another; specifically, such a piece in an organ stop action to transmit motion from the trundle to the lever actuating the stop slider.

(fortification) The ground plan of a work or works.

(geometry) The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.

(mathematics) The sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix.

(grammar) An empty category occupying a position in the syntactic structure from which something has been moved, used to explain constructions such as wh-movement and the passive.

(transitive) To follow the trail of.

To follow the history of.

(transitive) To draw or sketch lightly or with care.

(transitive) To copy onto a sheet of paper superimposed over the original, by drawing over its lines.

To copy; to imitate.

To walk; to go; to travel.

To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.

To follow the execution of the program by making it to stop after every instruction, or by making it print a message after every step.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A mark, impression, or visible appearance of anything left when the thing itself no longer exists; remains; token; vestige.

The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.

The ground plan of a work or works.

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.

To follow by some mark that has been left by a person or thing which has preceded; to follow by footsteps, tracks, or tokens.

Hence, to follow the trace or track of.

To copy; to imitate.

To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.

To walk; to go; to travel.

A just detectable amount;

An indication that something has been present;

A suggestion of some quality;

Drawing created by tracing

Either of two lines that connect a horse's harness to a wagon or other vehicle or to a whiffletree

A visible mark (as a footprint) left by the passage of person or animal or vehicle

Follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something;

Make a mark or lines on a surface;

To go back over again;

Pursue or chase relentlessly;

Discover traces of;

Make one's course or travel along a path; travel or pass over, around, or along;

Copy by following the lines of the original drawing on a transparent sheet placed upon it; make a tracing of;

Read with difficulty;