tracing
 描繪,描圖,追蹤
 trac·ing /ˈtresɪŋ/ 名詞
 示蹤,追蹤,描記法,描繪
 tracing
 追蹤常式
 tracing
 追蹤
 tracing
 追蹤
 Trace, v. t. [imp. & p. p. traced p. pr. & vb. n. tracing.]
 1. 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.   --Hawthorne.
 2. To follow by some mark that has been left by a person or thing which has preceded; to follow by footsteps, tracks, or tokens.
    You may trace the deluge quite round the globe.   --T. Burnet.
 I feel thy power . . . to trace the ways
 Of highest agents.   --Milton.
 3. Hence, to follow the trace or track of.
    How all the way the prince on footpace traced.   --Spenser.
 4. To copy; to imitate.
 That servile path thou nobly dost decline,
 Of tracing word, and line by line.   --Denham.
 5. To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.
    We do tracethis alley up and down.   --Shak.
 Tra·cing n.
 1. The act of one who traces; especially, the act of copying by marking on thin paper, or other transparent substance, the lines of a pattern placed beneath; also, the copy thus producted.
 2. A regular path or track; a course.
 Tracing cloth, Tracing paper, specially prepared transparent cloth or paper, which enables a drawing or print to be clearly seen through it, and so allows the use of a pen or pencil to produce a facsimile by following the lines of the original placed beneath.
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 tracing
      n 1: the act of drawing a plan or diagram or outline
      2: drawing created by tracing [syn: trace]