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TRACING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The discovery and description of the course of development of something
Example:
the tracing of genealogies
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("tracing" is a kind of...):
discovery; find; uncovering (the act of discovering something)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The act of drawing a plan or diagram or outline
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("tracing" is a kind of...):
drafting; draftsmanship; drawing (the creation of artistic pictures or diagrams)
Derivation:
trace (make a mark or lines on a surface)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A drawing created by superimposing a semitransparent sheet of paper on the original image and copying on it the lines of the original image
Synonyms:
trace; tracing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("tracing" is a kind of...):
drawing (a representation of forms or objects on a surface by means of lines)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb trace
Context examples:
The act of observing and recording the fetal heart rate for determining the baseline values and any variations or other abnormal tracings.
(Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring, NCI Thesaurus)
Electrical recordings and tracing experiments showed that many of the hypothalamic MCH cells sent inhibitory messages, via long stringy axons, to the hippocampus, the brain’s memory center.
(The brain may actively forget during dream sleep, National Institutes of Health)
This new concept was a perpetual amazement to Martin, and he found himself engaged continually in tracing the relationship between all things under the sun and on the other side of the sun.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
In collaboration with the researchers from Liverpool John Moore University, the UGR researchers used statistical techniques to analyse the full kinematics curves, based on tracing point trajectories.
(Researchers identify the maximum weight that children should carry in their school backpacks, University of Granada)
Thus far I have gone, tracing a secure way over the pathless seas, the very stars themselves being witnesses and testimonies of my triumph.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
In the clear embers I was tracing a view, not unlike a picture I remembered to have seen of the castle of Heidelberg, on the Rhine, when Mrs. Fairfax came in, breaking up by her entrance the fiery mosaic I had been piercing together, and scattering too some heavy unwelcome thoughts that were beginning to throng on my solitude.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Tracing a chemical signature of helium in seawater, an international team of scientists funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the United Kingdom's (U.K.) Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) has discovered a previously unknown volcanic hotspot beneath the massive West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS).
(Previously unsuspected volcanic activity confirmed under West Antarctic Ice Sheet at Pine Island Glacier, National Science Foundation)
I have a tracing which will make it complete.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The paper was covered with the tracings of the footmarks of some small animal.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You come round here to the left, out of this gate, tracing his finger along the inkstand, and exactly where I hold this pen, there stands the house—facing, you understand, towards the church.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
