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Tracing vs Spying - What's the difference?

tracing | spying |

As nouns the difference between tracing and spying

is that tracing is the reproduction of an image made by copying it through translucent paper while spying is espionage.

As a verb spying is

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tracing

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
  • A regular path or track; a course.

    • Related terms

    * trace

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    spying

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

  • espionage
  • * 1980 , Amélie Rorty, Explaining Emotions (page 472)
    • There are two ways in which the obsessive character of jealousy tends to exert itself: one is in the need to know, the endless tests and investigations and spyings that are so characteristic of jealousy.

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