Trace
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To follow the trail of. To draw or sketch. To copy onto a sheet of transparent paper.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: An act of tracing. A mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal. A very small amount. An electric current-carrying conductive pathway on a printed circuit board. An informal road or prominent path in an arid area. The sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix.
Example sentence: Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language.
Tracing
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The reproduction of an image made by copying it through translucent paper.A record in the form of a graph made by a device such as a seismograph.The process of finding something that is lost by studying evidence.
Example sentence: The other piece about tracing your ancestry is it makes you slightly more empathetic about what happens today. As we seem to have lost a certain sense of humanity for and among each other.