tracing paper
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2.5
- noun
- /ˈtreɪsɪŋ ˈpeɪpər/
:
papel calco
- And then I taped tracing paper on top of my figures.
- a sheet of tracing paper
- a piece of tracing paper
- drawings on tracing paper
And having that there and being able to sort of use it as like a tracing paper.
- And having that there and being able to sort of use it as like a tracing paper.
Examples
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She thought it odd that a man who prized his privacy would keep the clear glass panel in the studio door unveiled, and she'd offered to cover it with tracing paper.
Fiction book (1995) -
I get out my tracing paper.
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Later, he began to draw his own figures without the aid of tracing paper.
Fiction book (2002) -
We would do flats on tracing paper and stick them on here.
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They'll take a photo of it, cover the photo with tracing paper, and draw the features.
Fiction book (1995) -
What you will need for this is drawing paper, tracing paper, a grey pencil and a black pen and that's it.
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You can use a sheet of tracing paper and transpose your content, flip it over and there you have it ready to carve.
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Antree had neatly lettered on a scrap of tracing paper.
Academic text (2008) -
Before starting my project, I always make a detailed outline on a sheet of tracing paper.
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Using tracing paper, I was able to create an exact replica of the original design.
How Transparent
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2.9
- Archaic
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7.6
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2.5
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2.4
147
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derived from the constituents: 'tracing' denotes copying a drawing by following original lines and 'paper' denotes the material, so together they denote the kind of paper used for tracing. This noun–noun compositional pattern is transparent and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Tracing paper gets its name from its job: very thin paper you put over a drawing so you can follow the lines 'to trace' them. That's why the name means 'paper for copying drawings'.