Meaning

4 senses
  1. The reproduction of an image made by copying it through translucent paper.

    a drawing created by superimposing a semitransparent sheet of paper on the original image and copying on it the lines of the original image

  2. A record in the form of a graph made by a device such as a seismograph.

  3. The process of finding something that is lost by studying evidence.

  4. A regular path or track; a course.

Examples

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  1. Police kept tracing down the group.

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  2. Is tracing a good way to learn how to draw?

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  3. Scientists have developed apps that can be used for contact tracing.

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  4. Tracing a renegade's family background, you'll find him the black sheep.

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  5. There is no branch of detective science which is so important and so much neglected as the art of tracing footsteps.

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Translations

1 languages

Origin

From Middle English tracyng; equivalent to trace + -ing.

From Middle English tracyng; equivalent to trace + -ing.

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Forms

plural: tracings
Singulartracing
Pluraltracings

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a drawing created by superimposing a semitransparent sheet of paper on the original image and copying on it the lines of the original image:trace

Word family

11 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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