Hypertext Webster Gateway: "tracing"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.

Some faintly traced features or outline of the
mother and the child, slowly lading into the
twilight of the woods. --Hawthorne.

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.

You may trace the deluge quite round the globe. --T.
Burnet.

I feel thy power . . . to trace the ways Of highest
agents. --Milton.

3. Hence, to follow the trace or track of.

How all the way the prince on footpace traced.
--Spenser.

4. To copy; to imitate.

That servile path thou nobly dost decline, Of
tracing word, and line by line. --Denham.

5. To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.

We do tracethis alley up and down. --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.

2. A regular path or track; a course.

{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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

tracing
n 1: the act of drawing a plan or diagram or outline
2: drawing created by tracing [syn: {trace}]


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