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US
/ˈtɹeɪsɪŋ/
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[ UK /tɹˈeɪsɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /tɹˈeɪsɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- the act of drawing a plan or diagram or outline
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the discovery and description of the course of development of something
the tracing of genealogies - a drawing created by superimposing a semitransparent sheet of paper on the original image and copying on it the lines of the original image
How To Use tracing In A Sentence
- Now he's considering retracing the steps of legendary Greek messenger Pheidippides, who carried dispatches from Athens to Sparta in the Battle of Marathon in 490 b.c.
- Absorbing and retracing my history, memories of the special, never forgotten days, when our family made the crossing over the lagoon to the hummocks beyond.
- On the occasion of his 95th birthday, the city of Paris celebrates his work with an exhibition in the hall of the Hôtel-de-Ville, retracing 75 years of his career, with stories and reminiscences by the artist.
- At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the building was extended by addition of east and west wings linked to the centre by colonnades tracing the path of the old road.
- They then painted the outlines of their face and facial features with a dark color of acrylic paint, tracing their pencil sketch through the Plexiglas.
- She had given up all hope of tracing her missing daughter.
- I signed the word for juice on his cheek, curving my thumb and forefinger into the shape of the letter C and tracing the movement slowly across his skin.
- Managing your monthly credit card bills can be a damper on your free time, but how about retracing the entire bill in black marker and photo documenting every purchase on your statement?
- But we left no stone unturned in tracing a huge amount of evidence. The Sun
- Tracing the relationships between sources and the historical assessment of readings can be facilitated by stemmatic filiation.