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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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... supporting by that time all it would bear. Since that time the number of houses on the Hill has remained about the same, as will be seen from a comparison of the Maps I and II, the one made for Washington in 1778-80 and the other being a tracing of the map of the Topographical Survey of the United ...
— Quaker Hill - A Sociological Study • Warren H. Wilson
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— Oliver Cromwell • John Drinkwater
... Blackmore, and described them thus: 'The spectacles were for constant use and had steel frames of Stopford's pattern with curl sides, the length of the side-bars including the curled ends being 13.3 cm. The bridge was broad with a gold lining-plate, shaped as shown by the enclosed tracing from the diagram on the prescription. Distance between ...
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... glorieuses"—into the Army, Finance, and the Family, and sent in the design for the sepulchre of the late lamented Charles Keller; and here again Stidmann took the commission. In the eleven years that followed, the sketch had been modified to suit all kinds of requirements, and now in Vitelot's fresh tracing they reappeared as Music, Sculpture, ...
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