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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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"Tracing" Quotes from Famous Books

... some embarrassment of manner, gave his hearer an account of his son's unhappy career, and his own difficulties about tracing ...

— Frank Oldfield - Lost and Found • T.P. Wilson

... little difficulty in tracing the reports to the malignity of the man who had acted as mate during the last passage home. In consequence of these reports, Captain Helfrich had considerable difficulty in obtaining a cargo for the brig; and so disgusted was he ...

— Old Jack • W.H.G. Kingston

... said Ermine, who, besides her usual amusement in tracing Rachel's dicta to their source, could only keep in her indignation ...

— The Clever Woman of the Family • Charlotte M. Yonge

... operate pretty uniformly upon all men, because they operate by principles in nature, and which are not derived from any particular habits or advantages. Mr. Locke very justly and finely observes of wit, that it is chiefly conversant in tracing resemblances; he remarks, at the same time, that the business of judgment is rather in finding differences. It may perhaps appear, on this supposition, that there is no material distinction between the wit and the judgment, as they both seem to result ...

— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. I. (of 12) • Edmund Burke

... pencil on the sky, Tracing silently life's changeful story, So familiar to my dim eye, Points me to seven that are now in glory There on high! Yon white spire, a pencil on ...

— The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 - Sorrow and Consolation • Various

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