English words for 'One who constructs a trail.'
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verb
- To create a trail in.
- To travel by following or creating trails.
- (transitive) To leave (a trail of).
- (military) To carry (a firearm) with the breech near the ground and the upper part inclined forward, the piece being held by the right hand near the middle.
- (transitive) To follow behind (someone or something); to tail (someone or something).
- (intransitive) To drag oneself lazily or reluctantly along.
- (intransitive) To run or climb like certain plants.
- To transport (livestock) by herding it along a trail.
- (transitive) To drag (something) behind on the ground.
- (intransitive) To hang or drag loosely behind; to move with a slow sweeping motion.
- To be losing, to be behind in a competition.
- (transitive) To show a trailer of (a film, TV show etc.); to release or publish a preview of (a report etc.) in advance of the full publication.
- to lag or linger behind
- hang down so as to drag along the ground
- go after with the intent to catch
- move, proceed, or walk draggingly or slowly
- drag loosely along a surface; allow to sweep the ground
noun
- The track or indication marking the route followed by something that has passed, such as the footprints of animal on land or the contrail of an airplane in the sky.
- (television) A trailer broadcast on television for a forthcoming film or programme.
- The horizontal distance from where the wheel touches the ground to where the steering axis intersects the ground.
- A route or circuit generally.
- A route for travel over land, especially a narrow, unpaved pathway for use by hikers, horseback riders, etc.
- (graph theory) A walk in which all the edges are distinct.
- a track or mark left by something that has passed
- evidence pointing to a possible solution
- a path or track roughly blazed through wild or hilly country
noun
noun
noun
- A person who traces something.
- A device or instrument used to assist in making tracings.
- (chemistry) A compound, element, or isotope used to track the progress or history of a natural process.
- The act or state of tracking or investigating something.
- A request to trace the movements of a person or an object, such as a shipment.
- (computing) A process that traces something, such as the path of execution of a program during debugging.
- A round of ammunition for a firearm that contains magnesium or another flammable substance arranged such that it will burn and produce a visible trail when fired in the dark.
- ammunition whose flight can be observed by a trail of smoke
- an investigator who is employed to find missing persons or missing goods
- an instrument used to make tracings
- (radiology) any radioactive isotope introduced into the body to study metabolism or other biological processes
noun
- One who lays down the scent trail for a hunt.
- (historical) A thief who cuts the luggage from carriages.
- One who moves the carts or sledges at a mine; a putter.
- One who drags a body of water in search of something that is submerged.
- (historical) A driver of a carriage, coach, or drag, for public transport, private hire, or as a household servant; coachman.
noun
- someone who can find paths through unexplored territory
- something that offers basic information or instruction
- a structure or marking that serves to direct the motion or positioning of something
- someone employed to conduct others
- a model or standard for making comparisons
- someone who shows the way by leading or advising
- Synonym of legend, a key to symbols, abbreviations, and terms on a map, chart, etc.
- Someone who guides, especially someone hired to show people around a place or an institution and offer information and explanation, or to lead them through dangerous terrain.
- A document or book that offers information or instruction; guidebook.
- A sign that guides people; guidepost.
- A grooved director for a probe or knife in surgery.
- A blade or channel for directing the flow of water to the buckets in a water wheel.
- (occult) A spirit believed to speak through a medium.
- (military) A member of a group marching in formation who sets the pattern of movement or alignment for the rest.
- Any marking or object that catches the eye to provide quick reference.
verb
- direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
- take somebody somewhere
- be a guiding or motivating force or drive
- use as a guide
- pass over, across, or through
- To serve as a guide for someone or something; to lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path.
- To steer or navigate, especially a ship or as a pilot.
- To supervise the education or training of someone.
- To exert control or influence over someone or something.
- (intransitive) To act as a guide.
noun
- someone who can find paths through unexplored territory
- (finance) Ellipsis of pathfinder prospectus.
- (botany) Synonym of honey guide.
- (figurative) One who is the first to do something in a particular field; an innovator, a pioneer.
- One who discovers or makes a new path or way through an untraversed region.
noun
- someone who can find paths through unexplored territory
- a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
- someone employed to discover and recruit talented persons (especially in the worlds of entertainment or sports)
- (informal) A term of address for a man or boy.
- (Oxford University, modern) A housekeeper or domestic cleaner, generally female, employed by one of the constituent colleges of Oxford University to clean rooms; generally equivalent to a modern bedder at Cambridge University.
- The guillemot.
- (historical, UK, up until 1920s) A fighter aircraft.
- A member of any number of youth organizations belonging to the international scout movement, such as the Boy Scouts of America or Girl Scouts of the United States.
- (radiography) A preliminary image that allows the technician to make adjustments before the actual diagnostic images.
- (UK, cricket) A fielder in a game for practice.
- (Oxford University, Harvard University, Yale University, historical) A domestic servant, generally male, who would attend (usually several) students in a variety of ways, including cleaning; generally equivalent to a gyp at Cambridge University or a skip at Trinity College, Dublin.
- A person employed to monitor rivals' activities in the petroleum industry.
- A person who assesses or recruits others; especially, one who identifies promising talent on behalf of a sports team.
- A person sent out to gather and bring back information; especially, one employed in war to gain information about the enemy and ground.
- An act of scouting or reconnoitering.
verb
- explore, often with the goal of finding something or somebody
- (transitive) To reject the ideas or beliefs of (a person).
- (Scotland) To pour forth a liquid forcibly, especially excrement; to cause a liquid to gush.
- (transitive, intransitive) To explore a wide terrain, as if on a search.
- (intransitive) To scoff.
- (transitive) To reject with contempt.
- (transitive) To observe, watch, or look for, as a scout; to follow for the purpose of observation, as a scout.
noun
- One who goes before, as into the wilderness, preparing the way for others to follow.
- A person or other entity who is first or among the earliest in any field of inquiry, enterprise, or progress.
- A member of any of several European organizations advocating abstinence from alcohol.
- (communism) A member of a children’s organization operated by the Communist Party, typically in the second of three stages toward becoming a member of the Party itself.
- (Singapore) Alternative letter-case form of Pioneer (“A Singaporean born on or before 31 December 1949, who is entitled to various healthcare and social support schemes.”).
- (military) A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances; a sapper.
- one of the first colonists or settlers in a new territory
- someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art
verb
noun
- An adventurer on a dangerous but rewarding quest.
- Any of several species of shelled octopods of the family Argonautidae (of which only the genus Argonauta is not extinct).
- (specifically, historical) A 49er, a person who took part in the California Gold Rush of 1849.
- someone engaged in a dangerous but potentially rewarding adventure
- cephalopod mollusk of warm seas whose females have delicate papery spiral shells
noun
- (US) A person who clears a road for lumberers in a forest or swamp.
- Someone or something that swamps or overwhelms.
- (Canada, US, slang) A truck driver's assistant; an assistant to a driver of horses, mules or bullocks.
- (US) A handyman or general employee in a liquor saloon; a cook's assistant.
- (Australia, slang) a person who travels by foot but has his belongings on a wagon.
- (US) A person who lives in a swampy area.
noun
noun
- A person who maintains railway lines.
- (mining, historical) An ostler; one who looks after the horses in a mine.
- (by extension) Someone who fiddles or tinkers with things.
- (slang, UK, Lancashire) A friend or mate.
- Someone whose job is to sand and grind small imperfections from metal and ceramic castings.
noun
- a hiker who wears a backpack
- a wholesaler in the meat-packing business
- a workman employed to pack things into containers
- (Australia) A packhorse.
- Clipping of meatpacker.
- (New Zealand) An object inserted to hold a space open for the purpose of alignment; a spacer or shim.
- A person whose business is to pack things; especially, one who packs food for preservation
- (LGBTQ) An artificial penis or similar object worn by a drag king, trans man, etc., inside the trousers.
- (US) A ring of packing or a special device to render gastight and watertight the space between the tubing and bore of an oil well.
- (computing) A software program that compresses code or data.
- (Nigeria) A dustpan.
adj
noun
noun
- a worker who uses a skid to move logs
- a person who slips or slides because of loss of traction
- a tractor used to haul logs over rough terrain
- (engineering) a vehicle for pulling trees out of a forest.
- One who moves something by the use of a skid.
- The foreman of a construction gang making a skid road.
- One who travels with a skidding motion.
noun
- A trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians.
- (computing) A human-readable specification for a location within a hierarchical or tree-like structure, such as a file system or as part of a URL.
- (topology) A continuous map f from the unit interval I=[0,1] to a topological space X.
- (medicine, abbreviation) Pathology.
- A metaphorical course or route; progress.
- (graph theory) A sequence of vertices from one vertex to another using the arcs (edges). A path does not visit the same vertex more than once (unless it is a closed path, where only the first and the last vertex are the same).
- (rail transport) A slot available for allocation to a railway train over a given route in between other trains.
- A method or direction of proceeding.
- (paganism) A Pagan tradition, for example witchcraft, Wicca, druidism, Heathenry.
- A course taken.
- an established line of travel or access
- a way especially designed for a particular use
- a line or route along which something travels or moves
- a course of conduct
verb
noun
adj
noun
adv
- Along a path which runs past someone or something.
- (uncommon outside the phrase 'put by') Aside, away.
- In the vicinity, near.
- (uncommon except in set phrases) Beyond or past a certain point.
- To or at a place, as a residence or place of business.
- so as to pass a given point
- in reserve; not for immediate use
adj
noun
prep
- Following a noun.
- (horse breeding) Designates a horse's sire (“male parent”).
- Invokes an authority in an oath.
- (chiefly Yeshivish) At; with; among.
- Per; with or in proportion to each.
- Indicates the creator of a work: Existing through the authorship etc. of.
- Used to separate dimensions when describing the size of something.
- Indicates a means of classification or organisation.
- Indicates an authority according to which something is done.
- Not later than (the given time); not later than the end of (the given time interval).
- [with the] Acted on in units of the specified size or measure. (Sometimes hyperbolically)
- (not in common modern use) Following an adjective.
- Indicates a means of achieving something: Involving/using the means of.
- Following a passive verb.
- Near or next to.
- In the formulae X by X and by Xs, indicates a steady progression, one X after another.
- Indicates a referenced source: According to.
- (mathematics) multiplied by or (chiefly South Asia) divided by
- Indicates the amount of change, difference or discrepancy
- From one side of something to the other, passing close by; past.
- (nautical) in a windward direction, sailing near to the direction from which the wind is blowing
noun
- A person employed or engaged to carry equipment on a safari, expedition, etc.
- (India) A waiter in a hotel or restaurant.
- (printing) A type or type-high piece of metal interspersed in blank parts to support the plate when it is shaved.
- One who, or that which, bears, sustains, or carries.
- A person employed to carry a palanquin or litter.
- A tree or plant yielding fruit.
- One who possesses a cheque, bond, or other notes promising payment.
- (printing) A strip of reglet or other furniture to bear off the impression from a blank page.
- Someone who helps carry the coffin or a dead body during a funeral procession.
- a messenger who bears or presents
- the person who is in possession of a check or note or bond or document of title that is endorsed to them or to whoever holds it
- one of the mourners carrying the coffin at a funeral
- someone whose employment involves carrying something
noun
noun
noun
noun
- A person who traces something.
- A device or instrument used to assist in making tracings.
- (chemistry) A compound, element, or isotope used to track the progress or history of a natural process.
- The act or state of tracking or investigating something.
- A request to trace the movements of a person or an object, such as a shipment.
- (computing) A process that traces something, such as the path of execution of a program during debugging.
- A round of ammunition for a firearm that contains magnesium or another flammable substance arranged such that it will burn and produce a visible trail when fired in the dark.
- ammunition whose flight can be observed by a trail of smoke
- an investigator who is employed to find missing persons or missing goods
- an instrument used to make tracings
- (radiology) any radioactive isotope introduced into the body to study metabolism or other biological processes
noun
- One who lays down the scent trail for a hunt.
- (historical) A thief who cuts the luggage from carriages.
- One who moves the carts or sledges at a mine; a putter.
- One who drags a body of water in search of something that is submerged.
- (historical) A driver of a carriage, coach, or drag, for public transport, private hire, or as a household servant; coachman.
noun
- someone who can find paths through unexplored territory
- something that offers basic information or instruction
- a structure or marking that serves to direct the motion or positioning of something
- someone employed to conduct others
- a model or standard for making comparisons
- someone who shows the way by leading or advising
- Synonym of legend, a key to symbols, abbreviations, and terms on a map, chart, etc.
- Someone who guides, especially someone hired to show people around a place or an institution and offer information and explanation, or to lead them through dangerous terrain.
- A document or book that offers information or instruction; guidebook.
- A sign that guides people; guidepost.
- A grooved director for a probe or knife in surgery.
- A blade or channel for directing the flow of water to the buckets in a water wheel.
- (occult) A spirit believed to speak through a medium.
- (military) A member of a group marching in formation who sets the pattern of movement or alignment for the rest.
- Any marking or object that catches the eye to provide quick reference.
verb
- direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
- take somebody somewhere
- be a guiding or motivating force or drive
- use as a guide
- pass over, across, or through
- To serve as a guide for someone or something; to lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path.
- To steer or navigate, especially a ship or as a pilot.
- To supervise the education or training of someone.
- To exert control or influence over someone or something.
- (intransitive) To act as a guide.
noun
- someone who can find paths through unexplored territory
- (finance) Ellipsis of pathfinder prospectus.
- (botany) Synonym of honey guide.
- (figurative) One who is the first to do something in a particular field; an innovator, a pioneer.
- One who discovers or makes a new path or way through an untraversed region.
noun
- someone who can find paths through unexplored territory
- a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
- someone employed to discover and recruit talented persons (especially in the worlds of entertainment or sports)
- (informal) A term of address for a man or boy.
- (Oxford University, modern) A housekeeper or domestic cleaner, generally female, employed by one of the constituent colleges of Oxford University to clean rooms; generally equivalent to a modern bedder at Cambridge University.
- The guillemot.
- (historical, UK, up until 1920s) A fighter aircraft.
- A member of any number of youth organizations belonging to the international scout movement, such as the Boy Scouts of America or Girl Scouts of the United States.
- (radiography) A preliminary image that allows the technician to make adjustments before the actual diagnostic images.
- (UK, cricket) A fielder in a game for practice.
- (Oxford University, Harvard University, Yale University, historical) A domestic servant, generally male, who would attend (usually several) students in a variety of ways, including cleaning; generally equivalent to a gyp at Cambridge University or a skip at Trinity College, Dublin.
- A person employed to monitor rivals' activities in the petroleum industry.
- A person who assesses or recruits others; especially, one who identifies promising talent on behalf of a sports team.
- A person sent out to gather and bring back information; especially, one employed in war to gain information about the enemy and ground.
- An act of scouting or reconnoitering.
verb
- explore, often with the goal of finding something or somebody
- (transitive) To reject the ideas or beliefs of (a person).
- (Scotland) To pour forth a liquid forcibly, especially excrement; to cause a liquid to gush.
- (transitive, intransitive) To explore a wide terrain, as if on a search.
- (intransitive) To scoff.
- (transitive) To reject with contempt.
- (transitive) To observe, watch, or look for, as a scout; to follow for the purpose of observation, as a scout.
noun
- One who goes before, as into the wilderness, preparing the way for others to follow.
- A person or other entity who is first or among the earliest in any field of inquiry, enterprise, or progress.
- A member of any of several European organizations advocating abstinence from alcohol.
- (communism) A member of a children’s organization operated by the Communist Party, typically in the second of three stages toward becoming a member of the Party itself.
- (Singapore) Alternative letter-case form of Pioneer (“A Singaporean born on or before 31 December 1949, who is entitled to various healthcare and social support schemes.”).
- (military) A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances; a sapper.
- one of the first colonists or settlers in a new territory
- someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art
verb
noun
- An adventurer on a dangerous but rewarding quest.
- Any of several species of shelled octopods of the family Argonautidae (of which only the genus Argonauta is not extinct).
- (specifically, historical) A 49er, a person who took part in the California Gold Rush of 1849.
- someone engaged in a dangerous but potentially rewarding adventure
- cephalopod mollusk of warm seas whose females have delicate papery spiral shells
noun
- (US) A person who clears a road for lumberers in a forest or swamp.
- Someone or something that swamps or overwhelms.
- (Canada, US, slang) A truck driver's assistant; an assistant to a driver of horses, mules or bullocks.
- (US) A handyman or general employee in a liquor saloon; a cook's assistant.
- (Australia, slang) a person who travels by foot but has his belongings on a wagon.
- (US) A person who lives in a swampy area.
noun
noun
- A person who maintains railway lines.
- (mining, historical) An ostler; one who looks after the horses in a mine.
- (by extension) Someone who fiddles or tinkers with things.
- (slang, UK, Lancashire) A friend or mate.
- Someone whose job is to sand and grind small imperfections from metal and ceramic castings.
noun
- a hiker who wears a backpack
- a wholesaler in the meat-packing business
- a workman employed to pack things into containers
- (Australia) A packhorse.
- Clipping of meatpacker.
- (New Zealand) An object inserted to hold a space open for the purpose of alignment; a spacer or shim.
- A person whose business is to pack things; especially, one who packs food for preservation
- (LGBTQ) An artificial penis or similar object worn by a drag king, trans man, etc., inside the trousers.
- (US) A ring of packing or a special device to render gastight and watertight the space between the tubing and bore of an oil well.
- (computing) A software program that compresses code or data.
- (Nigeria) A dustpan.
noun
noun
- a worker who uses a skid to move logs
- a person who slips or slides because of loss of traction
- a tractor used to haul logs over rough terrain
- (engineering) a vehicle for pulling trees out of a forest.
- One who moves something by the use of a skid.
- The foreman of a construction gang making a skid road.
- One who travels with a skidding motion.
noun
- A trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians.
- (computing) A human-readable specification for a location within a hierarchical or tree-like structure, such as a file system or as part of a URL.
- (topology) A continuous map f from the unit interval I=[0,1] to a topological space X.
- (medicine, abbreviation) Pathology.
- A metaphorical course or route; progress.
- (graph theory) A sequence of vertices from one vertex to another using the arcs (edges). A path does not visit the same vertex more than once (unless it is a closed path, where only the first and the last vertex are the same).
- (rail transport) A slot available for allocation to a railway train over a given route in between other trains.
- A method or direction of proceeding.
- (paganism) A Pagan tradition, for example witchcraft, Wicca, druidism, Heathenry.
- A course taken.
- an established line of travel or access
- a way especially designed for a particular use
- a line or route along which something travels or moves
- a course of conduct
verb
noun
adj
noun
noun
- A person employed or engaged to carry equipment on a safari, expedition, etc.
- (India) A waiter in a hotel or restaurant.
- (printing) A type or type-high piece of metal interspersed in blank parts to support the plate when it is shaved.
- One who, or that which, bears, sustains, or carries.
- A person employed to carry a palanquin or litter.
- A tree or plant yielding fruit.
- One who possesses a cheque, bond, or other notes promising payment.
- (printing) A strip of reglet or other furniture to bear off the impression from a blank page.
- Someone who helps carry the coffin or a dead body during a funeral procession.
- a messenger who bears or presents
- the person who is in possession of a check or note or bond or document of title that is endorsed to them or to whoever holds it
- one of the mourners carrying the coffin at a funeral
- someone whose employment involves carrying something
noun
verb
- To create a trail in.
- To travel by following or creating trails.
- (transitive) To leave (a trail of).
- (military) To carry (a firearm) with the breech near the ground and the upper part inclined forward, the piece being held by the right hand near the middle.
- (transitive) To follow behind (someone or something); to tail (someone or something).
- (intransitive) To drag oneself lazily or reluctantly along.
- (intransitive) To run or climb like certain plants.
- To transport (livestock) by herding it along a trail.
- (transitive) To drag (something) behind on the ground.
- (intransitive) To hang or drag loosely behind; to move with a slow sweeping motion.
- To be losing, to be behind in a competition.
- (transitive) To show a trailer of (a film, TV show etc.); to release or publish a preview of (a report etc.) in advance of the full publication.
- to lag or linger behind
- hang down so as to drag along the ground
- go after with the intent to catch
- move, proceed, or walk draggingly or slowly
- drag loosely along a surface; allow to sweep the ground
noun
- The track or indication marking the route followed by something that has passed, such as the footprints of animal on land or the contrail of an airplane in the sky.
- (television) A trailer broadcast on television for a forthcoming film or programme.
- The horizontal distance from where the wheel touches the ground to where the steering axis intersects the ground.
- A route or circuit generally.
- A route for travel over land, especially a narrow, unpaved pathway for use by hikers, horseback riders, etc.
- (graph theory) A walk in which all the edges are distinct.
- a track or mark left by something that has passed
- evidence pointing to a possible solution
- a path or track roughly blazed through wild or hilly country
adv
- Along a path which runs past someone or something.
- (uncommon outside the phrase 'put by') Aside, away.
- In the vicinity, near.
- (uncommon except in set phrases) Beyond or past a certain point.
- To or at a place, as a residence or place of business.
- so as to pass a given point
- in reserve; not for immediate use
adj
noun
prep
- Following a noun.
- (horse breeding) Designates a horse's sire (“male parent”).
- Invokes an authority in an oath.
- (chiefly Yeshivish) At; with; among.
- Per; with or in proportion to each.
- Indicates the creator of a work: Existing through the authorship etc. of.
- Used to separate dimensions when describing the size of something.
- Indicates a means of classification or organisation.
- Indicates an authority according to which something is done.
- Not later than (the given time); not later than the end of (the given time interval).
- [with the] Acted on in units of the specified size or measure. (Sometimes hyperbolically)
- (not in common modern use) Following an adjective.
- Indicates a means of achieving something: Involving/using the means of.
- Following a passive verb.
- Near or next to.
- In the formulae X by X and by Xs, indicates a steady progression, one X after another.
- Indicates a referenced source: According to.
- (mathematics) multiplied by or (chiefly South Asia) divided by
- Indicates the amount of change, difference or discrepancy
- From one side of something to the other, passing close by; past.
- (nautical) in a windward direction, sailing near to the direction from which the wind is blowing