Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A reproduction made by superimposing a transparent sheet and copying the lines of the original on it.
- noun A graphic record made by a recording instrument, such as a cardiograph or seismograph.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of one who traces.
- noun A track or path; a course.
- noun A mechanical copy of a design or drawing, made by reproducing its lines as seen through a transparent medium, as tracing-paper.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun 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.
- noun A regular path or track; a course.
- noun 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
reproduction of animage made bycopying it throughtranslucent paper . - noun A
record in the form of agraph made by a device such as aseismograph . - noun The process of
finding something that islost by studyingevidence .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- 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
- noun the discovery and description of the course of development of something
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Examples
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Those (says he) who seek to discover hidden things and know the future have invented an art which they call tracing or smiting the sand; to wit, they take paper or sand or flour and trace thereon at hazard four rows of points, which operation, three times repeated (i.e. four times performed), gives sixteen rows.
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Indeed, Provine is quite correct in tracing this kind of thinking back to Darwin himself.
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In contrast with such state-of-the-art, 21st-century crime-fighting techniques as DNA matching and digital fingerprint analysis, gun tracing is an antiquated, laborious process done mostly by hand.
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Gun tracing is such a politically sensitive issue that Congress in 2003 banned the release of any federal data connecting dealers to guns seized in crimes.
Virginia gun dealers: Small number supply most guns tied to crimes
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The new operators of Sonny's declined to be interviewed, saying that tracing is "confidential."
Virginia gun dealers: Small number supply most guns tied to crimes
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The ensuing difficulty in tracing such ownership is now at the heart of the courts 'objections and the compelling argument for a government-enforced national moratorium on home foreclosures to provide sufficient time to sort this mess out.
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The ensuing difficulty in tracing such ownership is now at the heart of the courts 'objections and the compelling argument for a government-enforced national moratorium on home foreclosures to provide sufficient time to sort this mess out.
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Gun tracing is such a politically sensitive issue that Congress in 2003 banned the release of any federal data connecting dealers to guns seized in crimes.
Virginia gun dealers: Small number supply most guns tied to crimes
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The windows fog milky with conversation, uninterrupted by the bleating of a hospital monitor, and absentmindedly I begin tracing shapes: Pacmen, stars.
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The new operators of Sonny's declined to be interviewed, saying that tracing is "confidential."
Virginia gun dealers: Small number supply most guns tied to crimes
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