The difference between Gleam and Trace

When used as nouns, gleam means a small or indistinct shaft or stream of light, whereas trace means an act of tracing.

When used as verbs, gleam means to shine, whereas trace means to follow the trail of.


check bellow for the other definitions of Gleam and Trace

  1. Gleam as a noun:

    a small or indistinct shaft or stream of light.

  2. Gleam as a noun:

    a glimpse or hint; an indistinct sign of something.

    Examples:

    "The rescue workers preserved a gleam of optimism that they might still survive."

  3. Gleam as a noun:

    brightness or shininess; splendor.

  1. Gleam as a verb:

    To shine; to glitter; to glisten.

  2. Gleam as a verb:

    To be briefly but strongly apparent.

  3. Gleam as a verb (obsolete, falconry):

    To disgorge filth, as a hawk.

  1. Trace as a noun:

    An act of tracing.

    Examples:

    "Your cell phone company can put a trace on your line."

  2. Trace as a noun:

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

  3. Trace as a noun:

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

  4. Trace as a noun:

    A very small amount.

    Examples:

    "All of our chocolates may contain traces of nuts."

  5. Trace as a noun (electronics):

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

  6. Trace as a noun:

    An informal road or prominent path in an arid area.

  7. Trace as a noun:

    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.

  8. Trace as a noun (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.

  9. Trace as a noun (fortification):

    The ground plan of a work or works.

  10. Trace as a noun:

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

  11. Trace as a noun (mathematics):

    The sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix.

  12. Trace as a noun (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.

  1. Trace as a verb (transitive):

    To follow the trail of.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Cowper"

  2. Trace as a verb:

    To follow the history of.

  3. Trace as a verb (transitive):

    To draw or sketch lightly or with care.

    Examples:

    "He carefully traced the outlines of the old building before him."

  4. Trace as a verb (transitive):

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

  5. Trace as a verb (transitive, obsolete):

    To copy; to imitate.

  6. Trace as a verb (intransitive, obsolete):

    To walk; to go; to travel.

  7. Trace as a verb (transitive, obsolete):

    To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.

  8. Trace as a verb:

    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.