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noun

Tracing 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.

A regular path or track; a course.

Tracing cloth, Tracing paper, specially prepared transparent cloth or paper, which enables a drawing or print to be clearly seen through it, and so allows the use of a pen or pencil to produce a facsimile by following the lines of the original placed beneath.

verb

Trace v. t. (past & past part. traced; pres. part. tracing)

To mark out; to draw or delineate with marks; especially, to copy, as a drawing or engraving, by following the lines and marking them on a sheet superimposed, through which they appear; as, to trace a figure or an outline; a traced drawing. "Some faintly traced features or outline of the mother and the child, slowly lading into the twilight of the woods."

To follow by some mark that has been left by a person or thing which has preceded; to follow by footsteps, tracks, or tokens. "You may trace the deluge quite round the globe." "I feel thy power... to trace the ways Of highest agents."

Hence, to follow the trace or track of. "How all the way the prince on footpace traced."

To copy; to imitate. "That servile path thou nobly dost decline, Of tracing word, and line by line."

To walk over; to pass through; to traverse. "We do tracethis alley up and down."

Trace v. i. To walk; to go; to travel. (Obs.) "Not wont on foot with heavy arms to trace."

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Etymology of 'Tracing'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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