tracer

balle traçante

Balle qui laisse une traînée lumineuse en brûlant lorsqu’elle est tirée.

En anglais simple : A bullet that leaves a visible burning line behind it when fired.

• A tracer lit up the sky.
• The soldiers fired tracers across the field.
• Each tracer showed the gunner where the bullets were going.

Synonymes : tracer bullet, tracer round

Expressions courantes : tracer round, tracer ammunition, fire a tracer

enquêteur, calqueur

Personne qui suit des indices ou des déplacements, ou qui reproduit un dessin en repassant ses lignes.

En anglais simple : Someone who follows clues, tracks movements, or copies the lines of a drawing.

• The tracer found his new address.
• A skilled tracer copied the map's outlines.
• The company hired tracers to locate people who owed money.

Comment l'utiliser : tracer of someone/something (She works as a tracer of missing relatives.)

Expressions courantes : debt tracer, professional tracer, tracer of something

recherche, traçage

Démarche consistant à suivre les déplacements de quelque chose ou à chercher où cela est passé.

En anglais simple : The process of following something's movements or investigating where it has gone.

• The tracer is still in progress.
• A tracer on the missing shipment revealed a wrong address.
• The company completed its tracer after checking every delivery record.

Comment l'utiliser : tracer on something (The office began a tracer on the missing parcel.)

Synonymes : tracking, investigation

Expressions courantes : tracer on something, conduct a tracer

demande de recherche

Demande visant à retrouver une personne ou un objet, comme un colis perdu.

En anglais simple : A request to find out where a person or object, such as a missing package, has gone.

• Please send a tracer for my package.
• The carrier received three tracers for missing shipments.
• Have you filed a tracer with the delivery company?

Comment l'utiliser : tracer for someone/something (We filed a tracer for the missing parcel.)

Synonymes : tracing request

Expressions courantes : send a tracer, file a tracer, tracer for something