traceable
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3.8
- adjective
- /ˈtreɪsəbl/
:
rastreable
- The suit claimed that a cluster of childhood leukemia cases was traceable to pollutants in the city drinking water.
- directly traceable
- traceable to this source
- traceable back
So that's one source of meaning another and it's just directly traceable to my parents.
- So that's one source of meaning another and it's just directly traceable to my parents.
- And when they traced the silencer, the gun itself, it didn't go to, it wasn't traceable to Chicago.
- All major environmental legislation that exists in this country is traceable to the years that we were landing on the moon.
- But anyway, the, the key is, is that Kim and I have gold and silver stored outside this country so that it's not traceable.
- Is that possible that because it's now not traceable?
Examples
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We have a lot of dead bodies, but none of them are traceable to your Frank Kitchen.
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Within a year, all vamp activity in LA will be traceable to her sitting at the top.
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Now it turns out that this source of heat, of course, is traceable to the sun.
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Now, is this traceable to consent?
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Six Nobel Prizes are directly traceable to the work done in that one annus mirabilis.
Academic text (2012) -
"Every aspect of the ghetto underclass," he concluded, "is directly traceable to roots in the South... of a generation ago."
Academic text (1991) -
Wiccans report that the biggest challenges to their religious freedom are directly traceable to (1) misperceptions and (2) intolerance.
Academic text (1997) -
The ROR is traceable to NIST and helps support compliance with ISO 9000 requirements.
Academic text (1995) -
Thus, it was hatred based on false analogy, traceable to colonial times and opposition to royal absolutism and prerogative.
Academic text (1991) -
The increase in unemployment is traceable to the recent economic downturn.
Synonyms
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3.6
Easy to notice or find
3
2.9
Something that can be found or learned
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4.0
Easy to find and follow over time
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6.7
You can find out from facts or data
Able to be linked to a cause or origin
Antonyms
How Traceable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Traceable comes from the verb trace, which in turn comes from an old root tract meaning 'to pull' or 'to draw', as seen in tractor and track. So, if something is traceable to a source, you can follow the marks or steps back to where it began.