Associations to the word «Tracing»

Wiktionary

TRACING, noun. The reproduction of an image made by copying it through translucent paper.
TRACING, noun. A record in the form of a graph made by a device such as a seismograph.
TRACING, noun. The process of finding something that is lost by studying evidence.
TRACING, noun. A regular path or track; a course.
TRACING PAPER, noun. A translucent paper on which may be traced the design of whatever it is placed on

Dictionary definition

TRACING, noun. The act of drawing a plan or diagram or outline.
TRACING, 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.
TRACING, noun. The discovery and description of the course of development of something; "the tracing of genealogies".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope