tracing

Plural: tracings

Noun

• A copy made by drawing over lines of an original.
• the act of drawing a plan or diagram or outline
• a drawing created by superimposing a semitransparent sheet of paper on the original image and copying on it the lines of the original image
• the discovery and description of the course of development of something
  • "the tracing of genealogies"
• The reproduction of an image made by copying it through translucent paper.
• A record in the form of a graph made by a device such as a seismograph.
• The process of finding something that is lost by studying evidence.
• A regular path or track; a course.

Verb

• follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something
• make a mark or lines on a surface
• to go back over again
• pursue or chase relentlessly
• discover traces of
• make one's course or travel along a path; travel or pass over, around, or along
• copy by following the lines of the original drawing on a transparent sheet placed upon it; make a tracing of
• read with difficulty
• present participle and gerund of trace

Examples

• Her TRACING of my previous word, adding a prefix, was a clever strategic move.

Synonyms

decipher, delineate, describe, draw, follow, hound, hunt, line, retrace, trace

Related Words

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