Overview of noun tracing

The noun tracing has 3 senses

• tracing -- (the act of drawing a plan or diagram or outline)


• tracing, trace -- (a drawing created by superimposing a semitransparent sheet of paper on the original image and copying on it the lines of the original image)


• tracing -- (the discovery and description of the course of development of something; "the tracing of genealogies")

Overview of verb trace

The verb trace has 8 senses

• trace, follow -- (follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something; "We must follow closely the economic development is Cuba" ; "trace the student's progress")


• trace, draw, line, describe, delineate -- (make a mark or lines on a surface; "draw a line"; "trace the outline of a figure in the sand")


• trace, retrace -- (to go back over again; "we retraced the route we took last summer"; "trace your path")


• hound, hunt, trace -- (pursue or chase relentlessly; "The hunters traced the deer into the woods"; "the detectives hounded the suspect until they found him")


• trace -- (discover traces of; "She traced the circumstances of her birth")


• trace -- (make one's course or travel along a path; travel or pass over, around, or along; "The children traced along the edge of the dark forest"; "The women traced the pasture")


• trace -- (copy by following the lines of the original drawing on a transparent sheet placed upon it; make a tracing of; "trace a design"; "trace a pattern")


• decipher, trace -- (read with difficulty; "Can you decipher this letter?"; "The archeologist traced the hieroglyphs")