Definitions for tracings

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tracings trac·ing

Spelling: [trey-sing]

IPA: /ˈtreɪ sɪŋ/

Tracings is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 409 anagrams from letters in tracings (acginrst).

Definitions for tracings

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.
5. a surviving mark, sign, or evidence of the former existence, influence, or action of some agent or event; vestige:
6. a barely discernible indication or evidence of some quantity, quality, characteristic, expression, etc.:
7. an extremely small amount of some chemical component:
8. traces, the series of footprints left by an animal.
9. the track left by the passage of a person, animal, or object:
10. Meteorology. precipitation of less than 0.005 inches (0.127 mm).
11. a trail or path, especially through wild or open territory, made by the passage of people, animals, or vehicles.
12. engram.
13. a tracing, drawing, or sketch of something.
14. a lightly drawn line, as the record drawn by a self-registering instrument.
15. Mathematics. the intersection of two planes, or of a plane and a surface. the sum of the elements along the principal diagonal of a square matrix. the geometric locus of an equation.
16. the visible line or lines produced on the screen of a cathode-ray tube by the deflection of the electron beam.
17. Linguistics. (in generative grammar) a construct that is phonologically empty but serves to mark the place in the surface structure of a sentence from which a noun phrase has been moved by a transformational operation.
18. Obsolete. a footprint.

verb (used with object)

1. to follow the footprints, track, or traces of.
2. to follow, make out, or determine the course or line of, especially by going backward from the latest evidence, nearest existence, etc.:
3. to follow (footprints, evidence, the history or course of something, etc.).
4. to follow the course, development, or history of:
5. to ascertain by investigation; find out; discover:
6. to draw (a line, outline, figure, etc.).
7. to make a plan, diagram, or map of.
8. to copy (a drawing, plan, etc.) by following the lines of the original on a superimposed transparent sheet.
9. to mark or ornament with lines, figures, etc.
10. to make an impression or imprinting of (a design, pattern, etc.).
11. (of a self-registering instrument) to print in a curved, broken, or wavy-lined manner.
12. to put down in writing.

verb (used without object)

1. to go back in history, ancestry, or origin; date back in time:
2. to follow a course, trail, etc.; make one's way.
3. (of a self-registering instrument) to print a record in a curved, broken, or wavy-lined manner.

Origin of tracings

Middle English word dating back to 1350-1400; See origin at trace¹, -ing¹

Examples for tracings

Fans and novices soon became swept up in the movement, tracing each work like buried treasure.

What was the process like in tracing through these memories?

He never wearied of tracing the features of one so fair and good as she.

Most stars in the Milky Way have humdrum lives, tracing slow predictable orbits around the galactic center.

He also gave me a copy of the sonnet and a tracing of his son's photograph.

I unfolded the tracing paper and found on it drawings of a machine gun.

He went on tracing elaborate patterns on the floor for a good while.

Turning the tide of the epidemic, he says, will require “rigorous contact, tracing, and quarantining.”

In tracing their paths, I learned being dutiful is a choice—an opportunity, not an obligation.

He slid to his feet and went about tracing it with his little up-tilted nose.