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: It's not just a question of conquering a summit previously unknown, but of tracing, step by step, a new pathway to it.
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: Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.