Tracery

Definition: Tracery

Tracery

Noun

1. Decoration consisting of an open pattern of interlacing ribs.

Date "tracery" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1824. (references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Crossing	Net, plexus, web, mesh, twill, skein, sleeve, felt, lace; wicker; mat, matting; plait, trellis, wattle, lattice, grating, grille, gridiron, tracery, fretwork, filigree, reticle; tissue, netting, mokes; rivulation.
Curvature	Carve, arc, arch, arcade, vault, bow, crescent, half-moon, lunule, horseshoe, loop, crane neck; parabola, hyperbola; helix, spiral; catenary, festoon; conchoid, cardioid; caustic; tracery; arched ceiling, arched roof; bay window, bow window.
Ornament	Pattern, diaper, powdering, paneling, graining, pargeting; detail; repousse (convexity); texture; richness; tracery, molding, fillet, listel, strapwork, coquillage, flourish, fleur-de-lis, arabesque, fret, anthemion; egg and tongue, egg and dart; astragal, zigzag, acanthus, cartouche; pilaster; (projection); bead, beading; champleve ware, cloisonne ware; frost work, Moresque, Morisco, tooling.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Tracery

English words defined with "tracery": Fan tracery ♦ Geometrical tracery ♦ Jesse window ♦ lancet window ♦ Oillet ♦ Plate tracery, Purfled work ♦ rose window, rosette ♦ Stump tracery ♦ Tracer/y ♦ unmarred, unmutilated ♦ vermicular, vermiculate, vermiculated. (references)

Specialty definitions using "tracery": Flamboyant Architecture. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Treadgold tracery (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Tracery" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tracery" is used about 76 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	76	38,217

Expressions using "tracery": Bar tracery ♦ Fan tracery ♦ Geometrical tracery ♦ plate tracery ♦ stump tracery. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "tracery": tracery-like.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "tracery"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		vizatim (depiction, description, design, diagram, draftsmanship, draughtsmanship, drawing), hullizime zbukuruese. (various references)

Arabic		‏الزخرفة التشجيرية. (various references)

Bulgarian		рисунка (depiction, draft, drawing, picture), фигура (effigy, face card, figure, form, man, person, physique, piece), плетеница, декоративен мотив. (various references)

Czech		kružba. (various references)

Dutch		tracering. (various references)

French		remplage. (various references)

German		Masswerk. (various references)

Greek		σχέδιο λεπτώσ επεξειργασμένο. (various references)

Hebrew		קשוטי אבן. (various references)

Hungarian		mérmű. (various references)

Italian		disegno (aim, design, drawing, outline, pattern, picture, plan, scheme, sketch). (various references)

Manx		ingagh (criss-cross, grid on map, net, network, train, train of nets). (various references)

Pig Latin		acerytray

Portuguese		rendilhado de pedra, rendilhado, arabesco (arabesque, curlicue). (various references)

Russian		узор (design, pattern). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		urezan ukras na gotskom prozoru, šara (design, mottle, pattern, print). (various references)

Spanish		tracería, de tracería. (various references)

Turkish		yaprak damarları ağı, yaprak şeklinde oyma. (various references)

Ukrainian		узор (weave), сплетення (contexture, interlacement, plexus, splicer, twine). (various references)

Vietnamese		lá cây. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Tracery" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Trabert, tracey, traceys, trachedy, trachery, tracier, trager, traker, trecherie, Treveri, tricey, Triscari, trocar. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-r-r-t-y"
	-1 letter: artery, carter, crater, tracer.
	-2 letters: carer, caret, carry, carte, cater, crate, racer, rater, react, recta, retry, tarre, tarry, teary, terra, terry, trace, yarer.
	-3 letters: acre, aery, arty, care, carr, cart, cate, eyra, race, racy, rare, rate, rear, tace, tare, tear, tray, trey, tyer, tyre, yare, year.
	-4 letters: ace, act, arc, are, art, ate, aye.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-r-r-t-y"
	+2 letters: carpentry, crematory, precatory, secretary, tetrarchy, tracheary, treachery.
	+3 letters: charactery, clearstory, creaturely, procaryote, refractory, tracklayer, trajectory, trierarchy.
	+4 letters: calorimetry, celebratory, contrariety, corporately, craniometry, cryotherapy, cryptomeria, declaratory, deprecatory, erratically, imprecatory, intercalary, meritocracy, predicatory, procaryotes, reactionary, tracklayers.
	+5 letters: accretionary, appreciatory, carbohydrate, consecratory, conservatory, contemporary, corporeality, counterrally, cryptomerias, crystallizer, depreciatory, gerontocracy, hyperreactor, orchestrally, refractively, refractivity, refractorily, renunciatory, retractility, rhetorically, secretionary, subsecretary, tercentenary, terrifically, transparency.
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