tracing
noun
[ ˈtreɪsɪŋ ]
• a copy of a drawing, map, or design made by tracing.
• a faint or delicate mark or pattern.
• "tracings of apple blossoms against the deep greens of pines"
trace
verb
• find or discover by investigation.
• "police are trying to trace a white van seen in the area"
Similar:
track down,
find,
discover,
detect,
unearth,
uncover,
turn up,
hunt down,
dig up,
ferret out,
run to ground,
follow,
pursue,
trail,
shadow,
stalk,
dog,
find the source of,
find the origins of,
find the roots of,
follow to its source,
source,
• copy (a drawing, map, or design) by drawing over its lines on a superimposed piece of transparent paper.
• "trace a map of the world on to a large piece of paper"
Similar:
copy,
reproduce,
go over,
draw over,
draw the lines of,
draw,
draw up,
sketch,
draft,
outline,
rough out,
mark out,
delineate,
map,
chart,
record,
indicate,
show,
depict,
Origin:
Middle English (first recorded as a noun in the sense ‘path that someone or something takes’): from Old French trace (noun), tracier (verb), based on Latin tractus (see tract1).
