'Tracing' definitions:

Definition of 'tracing'

(from WordNet)
noun
The act of drawing a plan or diagram or outline
noun
A drawing created by superimposing a semitransparent sheet of paper on the original image and copying on it the lines of the original image [syn: tracing, trace]
noun
The discovery and description of the course of development of something; "the tracing of genealogies"

Definition of 'Tracing'

From: GCIDE
  • Tracing \Tra"cing\, n.
  • 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. A regular path or track; a course. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'tracing'

From: GCIDE
  • Trace \Trace\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. traced; p. pr. & vb. n. tracing.] [OF. tracier, F. tracer, from (assumed) LL. tractiare, fr.L. tractus, p. p. of trahere to draw. Cf. Abstract, Attract, Contract, Portratt, Tract, Trail, Train, Treat. ]
  • 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
  • Some faintly traced features or outline of the mother and the child, slowly lading into the twilight of the woods. --Hawthorne. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To follow by some mark that has been left by a person or thing which has preceded; to follow by footsteps, tracks, or tokens. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
  • You may trace the deluge quite round the globe. --T. Burnet. [1913 Webster]
  • I feel thy power . . . to trace the ways Of highest agents. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Hence, to follow the trace or track of. [1913 Webster]
  • How all the way the prince on footpace traced. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To copy; to imitate. [1913 Webster]
  • That servile path thou nobly dost decline, Of tracing word, and line by line. --Denham. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. To walk over; to pass through; to traverse. [1913 Webster]
  • We do tracethis alley up and down. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'tracing'

From: Moby Thesaurus

Words containing 'Tracing'