Tracing
['treɪsɪŋ] or ['tresɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) the discovery and description of the course of development of something; 'the tracing of genealogies'.
(noun.) the act of drawing a plan or diagram or outline.
(noun.) a drawing created by superimposing a semitransparent sheet of paper on the original image and copying on it the lines of the original image.
Typist: Malcolm--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Trace
(n.) The act of one who traces; especially, the act of copying by marking on thin paper, or other transparent substance, the lines of a pattern placed beneath; also, the copy thus producted.
(n.) A regular path or track; a course.
Inputed by Gerard
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Copy (of a drawing on tracing paper).
Editor: Winthrop
Definition
n. act of one who traces: act of copying by marking on thin paper the lines of a pattern placed beneath: the copy so produced.—n. Trā′cing-pā′per a transparent paper which when laid over a drawing &c. allows the drawing to be seen through it so that a copy can be made by tracing the lines of the original on the paper.
Edited by Adrian
Examples
- You look like the effigy of a young knight asleep on his tomb, she said, carefully tracing the well-cut profile defined against the dark stone. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- As her glasses are of remarkable strength, and as opticians are not very numerous, there should be no difficulty in tracing her. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- As a means of tracing him, if he wished to inquire about him from any third person. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- And now that we know what they are like there is no difficulty in tracing out the sort of life which awaits either of them. Plato. The Republic.
- A pencil point is secured to moving cross-head and marks position of target on ground glass, tracing movement of same thereon. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Well, if our conjecture is correct and the girl's name is or was Sophy Kratides, we should have no difficulty in tracing her. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- We pass over Leonardo da Vinci and many others in Italy and elsewhere, whose names should be mentioned if we were tracing this method to its origin. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Tracing mile after mile along between the dying ferns and the wet white spiders' webs, she at length turned her steps towards her grandfather's house. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Unconsciously, with her sensitive fingertips, she was tracing the back of his thighs, following some mysterious life-flow there. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- If he be tracing out his destiny, that may be written in other characters nearer to his hand. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The weather had for some time been too wet and the night itself had been too wet to admit of any tracing by footsteps. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- My interest in tracing Mr. Candy's lost recollection is not the interest of recovering the Moonstone. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Its implications are well worth tracing, for through them I think we can come to understand better the method of Twentieth Century politics. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I believe I have a strong interest, I said, in tracing the lost remembrance which Mr. Candy was unable to recall. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- He appears to be unreasonably anxious about tracing her. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The paper was covered with the tracings of the foot-marks of some small animal. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
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