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tracing
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Trace \Trace\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. traced; p. pr. & vb. n. tracing.] [OF. tracier, F. tracer, from (assumed) LL. tractiare, fr.L. tractus, p. p. of trahere to draw. Cf. Abstract, Attract, Contract, Portratt, Tract, Trail, Train, Treat. ]
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To mark out; to draw or delineate with marks; especially, to copy, as a drawing or engraving, by following the lines and marking them on a sheet superimposed, through which they appear; as, to trace a figure or an outline; a traced drawing.
Some faintly traced features or outline of the mother and the child, slowly lading into the twilight of the woods.
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To follow by some mark that has been left by a person or thing which has preceded; to follow by footsteps, tracks, or tokens.
--Cowper.You may trace the deluge quite round the globe.
--T. Burnet.I feel thy power . . . to trace the ways Of highest agents.
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Hence, to follow the trace or track of.
How all the way the prince on footpace traced.
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To copy; to imitate.
That servile path thou nobly dost decline, Of tracing word, and line by line.
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To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.
We do tracethis alley up and down.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The reproduction of an image made by copying it through translucent paper. 2 A record in the form of a graph made by a device such as a seismograph. 3 The process of finding something that is lost by studying evidence. 4 A regular path or track; a course.
WordNet
n. the act of drawing a plan or diagram or outline
drawing created by tracing [syn: trace]
Wikipedia
Tracing may refer to:
- Tracing (law), a process by which a one demonstrates the ownership of property to be awarded a claim based on this information
- Tracing (criminology), a subject that aims to determine crime scene activity from trace evidence left at crime scenes
- Tracing of family members, a service provided by the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
- Tracing (as with a gun or camera), tracking an object, as with the use of tracer ammunition
- Tracing (art), copying an object or drawing, especially with the use of translucent tracing paper
- Image tracing, digital image processing to convert raster graphics into vector graphics
- Tracing (software), a method of debugging in computer programming
- Call tracing, a procedure in telephony that permits an entitled user to be informed about the routing of data for an established connection
- Dye tracing, tracking various flows using dye added to the liquid in question
- Anterograde tracing and Retrograde tracing, biological research techniques used to map the connections of neurons
- Tracking and tracing, a process of monitoring the location and status of property in transit
Tracing is a legal process, not a remedy, by which a claimant demonstrates what has happened to his/her property, identifies its proceeds and those persons who have handled or received them, and asks the court to award a proprietary remedy in respect of the property, or an asset substituted for the original property or its proceeds. Tracing allows transmission of legal claims from the original assets to either the proceeds of sale of the assets or new substituted assets.
Tracing ordinarily facilitates an equitable remedy, and is subject to the usual limitations and bars on equitable remedies in common law countries. In many common law countries, there are two concurrent processes, tracing at common law and tracing in equity. However, because the right to trace at common law is so circumscribed, the equitable process is almost universally relied upon, as equitable tracing can be performed into a mixed fund.
In software engineering, tracing involves a specialized use of logging to record information about a program's execution. This information is typically used by programmers for debugging purposes, and additionally, depending on the type and detail of information contained in a trace log, by experienced system administrators or technical-support personnel and by software monitoring tools to diagnose common problems with software. Tracing is a cross-cutting concern.
There is not always a clear distinction between tracing and other forms of logging, except that the term tracing is almost never applied to logging that is a functional requirement of a program (therefore excluding logging of data from an external source, such as data acquisition in a high-energy physics experiment, and write-ahead logging). Logs that record program usage (such as a server log) or operating-system events primarily of interest to a system administrator (see for example Event Viewer) fall into a terminological gray area.
This article deals primarily with tracing for debugging or diagnostic purposes.
Usage examples of "tracing".
Johnson, inferior to none in philosophy, philology, poetry, and classical learning, stands foremost as an essayist, justly admired for the dignity, strength, and variety of his style, as well as for the agreeable manner in which he investigates the human heart, tracing every interesting emotion, and opening all the sources of morality.
Both tracings showed that the apheliotropic movement was a modified form of circumnutation.
When Robert began tracing the outside of the areola delicately with the tip of his tongue, she shivered uncontrollably.
At the first arpeggiated tracings of A minor, the rats begin milling, rumoring among themselves.
It took physical contact, breathing chalky sediments or tracing with your fingertips the outline of some paleozoic brachiopod, to truly feel the eons imbedded in a place like this.
Somehow the cravat and sapling had disappeared, and she saw that Dom was busy tracing a fingertip over the swell of her breast where it was trying to escape her insufficient robe.
Malatesta was a donnish, bespectacled Magoo, who never seemed to leave the universe of his own head, through which various elevated legal notions were always tracing like shooting stars.
She swallowed a hard, painful lump and stared at her hand again, tracing the bruises with her fingertips from her palm to her wrist, and twice around to the dorsum of her forearm.
On their part ministers supported their measures by tracing the history of the colonies, and exhibiting their uniform disposition to factious resistance.
Siegel that I was interested in tracing the freebase habit back as far as I could go and that 1 had been interested to read the account of its origins in his 1982 article.
For the girl whom Andrew Blouchet was tracing was the masked ballet dancer who had placed a fortune in his hands, on the night when Mardi Gras had ended!
Tracing family with James de Guider had been like the old times with the hard.
Tracing an accused murderer across two states and apprehending him on a bail-bond forfeiture?
A groan rose with a stiffening in his body and Isen slowed in her efforts to stroke his face for several heartbeats, tracing the edges of the tears, her eyes large with concern.
Beulah brought out one of her prenuke road maps, tracing their route from where Lox had died, heading eastward.