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Tracing   /trˈeɪsɪŋ/   Listen
Tracing

noun
1.
The act of drawing a plan or diagram or outline.
2.
A drawing created by superimposing a semitransparent sheet of paper on the original image and copying on it the lines of the original image.  Synonym: trace.
3.
The discovery and description of the course of development of something.


Trace

verb
(past & past part. traced; pres. part. tracing)
1.
Follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something.  Synonym: follow.  "Trace the student's progress"
2.
Make a mark or lines on a surface.  Synonyms: delineate, describe, draw, line.  "Trace the outline of a figure in the sand"
3.
To go back over again.  Synonym: retrace.  "Trace your path"
4.
Pursue or chase relentlessly.  Synonyms: hound, hunt.  "The detectives hounded the suspect until they found him"
5.
Discover traces of.
6.
Make one's course or travel along a path; travel or pass over, around, or along.  "The women traced the pasture"
7.
Copy by following the lines of the original drawing on a transparent sheet placed upon it; make a tracing of.  "Trace a pattern"
8.
Read with difficulty.  Synonym: decipher.  "The archeologist traced the hieroglyphs"



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"Tracing" Quotes from Famous Books



... no really inherent order, but it is we who project order into the world by selecting objects and tracing relations so as to gratify our intellectual interests. We carve out order by leaving the disorderly parts out; and the world is conceived thus after the analogy of a forest or a block of marble from which parks ...
— A Pluralistic Universe - Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the - Present Situation in Philosophy • William James
... tracing paper and the notes are in French. This drawing is of a simplified hull form having flat-bottom hulls with chines. It is possible that this is a tracing of a preliminary drawing obtained by Marestier or Montgery, but no documentation can be found. Its importance is that ...
— Fulton's "Steam Battery": Blockship and Catamaran • Howard I. Chapelle
... as he was in matters of general importance, was far from slow in tracing the melancholy occurrence to its ...
— Rabbi and Priest - A Story • Milton Goldsmith
... They are mostly broad caricatures, and speak an outlandish jargon, more like Welsh than Irish, supposed to be the Ulster dialect: anything more unlike it would be difficult to conceive. The early conventional stage Irishman, tracing him from Captain. Macmorris in Henry V.,through Ben Jonson's Irish Masque and New Inn, Dekker's Bryan, Ford's Mayor of Cork, Shadwell's O'Divelly (probably Farquhar's model for Foigard), is truly a wondrous savage, chiefly distinguished by his use of the expletives 'Dear Joy!' and 'By Creesh!' ...
— The Beaux-Stratagem • George Farquhar
... were tracing, or pretending to trace, our route to Gouda, whither we were going, and where we expected to lunch. Hurriedly she threw herself into a discussion with him as to whether we were now in the Lek or the Maas. ...
— The Chauffeur and the Chaperon • C. N. Williamson


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