tracing

[trey-sing]

noun

1. the act of a person or thing that traces.

2. something that is produced by tracing.

3. a copy of a drawing, map, plan, etc., made by tracing on a transparent sheet placed over the original.

4. the record made by a self-registering instrument.

tracing

/ ˈtreɪsɪŋ /

noun

1. a copy made by tracing

2. the act of making a trace

3. a record made by an instrument

Word History and Origins

Origin of tracing¹

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; trace ¹, -ing ¹

Example Sentences

"We are tracing the source and will take swift, decisive action against those responsible."

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Villalobos filmed Figueroa Street from a driver’s perspective, observing the street’s nighttime activity and tracing the energy that surrounds the place where soul singer Sam Cooke was shot.

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John added DNA testing kits should better warn about possible bad outcomes and urged people not to romanticise family tracing.

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Taichung authorities were tracing the whereabouts of 28 pigs from the farm that were sold in markets, Lin Nien-nung, from the ministry's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Agency, said Thursday.

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Poitras shapes that material into something larger than a straight biography, tracing a cycle that runs through every era: exposure, denial and scapegoating that ends without true accountability.

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