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UK
/tɹˈeɪsəbəl/
]
[ US /ˈtɹeɪsəbəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈtɹeɪsəbəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
capable of being traced or tracked
the traceable course of an ancient wall
a traceable riverbed -
(usually followed by `to') able to be traced to
a failure traceable to lack of energy
How To Use traceable In A Sentence
- In far northern Europe, bicephalous animal motifs seem to be traceable at least as far back as the early 7th millennium B.C.
- Forensic evidence has shown that at least one of the bombs was detonated remotely via an untraceable prepaid mobile phone.
- An independent calibration, traceable to it UK national standard, was carried out on the IL1400A radiometer and detector by the Gloucestershire medical physics service.
- Bow ties have been around for more than 300 years, their origin traceable, as one story goes, to the court of Louis XIV of France in the 1600s. Bow Ties
- the traceable course of an ancient wall
- The flooding of our domestic market with cheap untraceable beef represents a threat to consumers as a whole as well as our tourism and catering industries.
- With dozens of blogging sites to pick from, a teen could choose to be faceless, anonymous and almost untraceable by the people closest to them.
- He seemed to be passing through the universe of ideas like a comet — erratic, inapprehensible, untraceable. The Woodlanders
- From early animism in its manifold expressions, through polytheism, kathenotheism, henotheism, to monotheism, and so out into loftier possibilities of conceiving the divine nature and purpose -- the main road which man has traveled in his religious development now is traceable. Christianity and Progress
- Some say Bitcoins are being used to buy illegal drugs online via shadowy markets that exploit both the effectively untraceable Bitcoins and the anonymous way they can be traded.