spore

spore¹ sb. (på svampe og bakterier) spore;
□ □ tjene sine sporer earn/win one's spurs.
spore² vb. trace (fx trace a telephone call, he traced his father to an old folks' home in Spain where he was living, the FBI traced the attacks to hackers in China, the policeman spent hours of his own time tracing stolen cars, police have now traced and spoken to the witness, they managed to trace the women to Sydney); (om person) track (fx the terrorist was tracked to Pakistan but the intelligence operatives just missed him), track down (fx the bank has tracked down the owner of the account);
□ kunne spores (ved dopingkontrol etc.) be detectable (fx today, most illegal substances are readily detectable); som kan spores traceable; identifiable; detectable;
* It will be impossible to track the money down, it is a fact that aviation accidents barely register (dårligt kan spores) in America's mortality statistics, there was no panic detectable (at spore) to the outsider, the family traced their descent from a French aristocrat , the conversation turned to (blev sporet ind på) politics.