Definition of tracery in English:

tracery

nounPlural traceries ˈtreɪs(ə)riˈtreɪs(ə)ri

mass nounArchitecture

1Ornamental stone openwork, typically in the upper part of a Gothic window.
〔建筑〕（尤指哥特式窗上部的）窗花格，装饰性石透雕细工
the rose designs were divided by tracery
Example sentencesExamples
- The result incorporates a visible seismic infrastructure with shapes that reflect the traditional Gothic tracery.
- This was costly to construct, flamboyant, and characterized by ogee arches, flowing and inventive window tracery, and lighter vaulting.
- Earlier masons, he tells us, produced simple tracery in round windows by piercing stone discs.
- In addition, the top areas of the main windows are decorated with stone tracery describing trefoils, quatrefoils and Moorish arches.
- The main medieval style in western Europe, characterized by the pointed arch, slender columns and shafts, buttresses, pinnacles, and increasingly complex ceiling vaulting and window tracery.
- Windows were traditionally of translucent alabaster, but during the second Turkish occupation, deeply coloured stained glass began to be used in the decorative plaster window tracery.
Synonyms
web, criss-cross, grid, lattice, net, matrix, mesh, webbing, trellis
1. 1.1count noun A delicate branching pattern.
  分枝线条饰
  a tracery of red veins
  红色纹理的分枝线条饰。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Compositions on white paper seem gently washed with faint shadows, while those on black paper are inhabited by cloudlike presences made of traceries of white filigree lines.
  Their trunks, though smaller, had delicate and fine traceries of bark, showing an age far beyond their size.
  The delicate traceries of individual drawings mingle and tangle with each other, creating labyrinths of wings, teeth and sinewy limbs.
  Like the caper white, many of the whites are plain on top, but when they close their wings you see fine traceries, often with yellow highlights.
  Faint traceries of blue light danced along the mirror-bright cutting edges.
  Her ruby eyes were underscored by traceries of barely distinguishable wrinkles, and her uncovered hands were worn thin with age.
  Perhaps the least successful of the works is one of the large rectangular panels, overlaid with a tracery of thin clothbound branches, in which the underlying marks and carvings seem somewhat arbitrary and forced.
  As a 1917 photograph of this painting shows, the sail that fills much of the foreground originally bore a delicate tracery of rigging.
  There's something about blocks of text, with odd patterns and traceries running through it, that is visually arresting.
  In Splendor on the Bench, a realistically rendered vacuum-tube stereo amplifier sits alone in a paneled room, the painting's surface marked by a delicate tracery.
  The artist has said these red traceries indicate bloodlines linking all Chinese to one family, and may also refer to a shared history under Communist rule.
  Naturalistic process is paramount; albums come with pithy back-stories haloed in hazy traceries of light, flickering with pastoral forest music, and whispering tape-hiss sprites.
  The curtains are made of saris glittering with sequins a tracery of gold threads unfurling.
  The reading of the painting is controlled, held back, balked, as the eye scans the gap between traceries, the small negative spaces that become positive for a moment and shift the emphasis.
  Ochre and red rippled across the male's mantle, in the delicate, complex traceries of which only males were capable.
  Their skins, a phosphorescent seafoam green, were embellished with a delicate tracery of painted tattoos - leaves, flowers, sperm, tears, butterflies.
  There were an assortment of fine traceries on his body, most were from shallower cuts and would eventually disappear, some would not.
  Over the skin was a delicate tracery of black tattooing, marred by a badly healed wound that ran diagonally across the face.
  Beneath them they saw delicate traceries of red and realized that only inches below their feet the molten lava of Hawaii ran in its broken arteries.
  Smoke rose from chimneys in the distant village, the traceries of smoke vertical in the crisp morning air.
  Synonyms
  framework, grid, grate, network, grille, grillwork, lattice, trellis, criss-cross, matrix

Derivatives

traceried

adjective

Architecture

The octagonal lantern with delicate traceried panelling houses Great George, a bell of over nine tons.
Example sentencesExamples
- The upper of the two steps upon which it stands is traceried, and there are four lions against the stem.
- The second level door has traceried sidelights and a fantail with decorative molding above the door.
- Traditional statuettes of saints stand under vaulted, traceried canopies.
- Rows of minute traceried windows are topped by projecting open canopies, while the towers are topped by polygonal miniature lamps.

Definition of tracery in US English:

tracery

nounˈtrās(ə)rēˈtreɪs(ə)ri

Architecture

1Ornamental stone openwork, typically in the upper part of a Gothic window.
〔建筑〕（尤指哥特式窗上部的）窗花格，装饰性石透雕细工
Example sentencesExamples
- The result incorporates a visible seismic infrastructure with shapes that reflect the traditional Gothic tracery.
- In addition, the top areas of the main windows are decorated with stone tracery describing trefoils, quatrefoils and Moorish arches.
- Windows were traditionally of translucent alabaster, but during the second Turkish occupation, deeply coloured stained glass began to be used in the decorative plaster window tracery.
- The main medieval style in western Europe, characterized by the pointed arch, slender columns and shafts, buttresses, pinnacles, and increasingly complex ceiling vaulting and window tracery.
- Earlier masons, he tells us, produced simple tracery in round windows by piercing stone discs.
- This was costly to construct, flamboyant, and characterized by ogee arches, flowing and inventive window tracery, and lighter vaulting.
Synonyms
web, criss-cross, grid, lattice, net, matrix, mesh, webbing, trellis
1. 1.1 A delicate branching pattern.
  分枝线条饰
  a tracery of red veins
  红色纹理的分枝线条饰。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Compositions on white paper seem gently washed with faint shadows, while those on black paper are inhabited by cloudlike presences made of traceries of white filigree lines.
  There's something about blocks of text, with odd patterns and traceries running through it, that is visually arresting.
  There were an assortment of fine traceries on his body, most were from shallower cuts and would eventually disappear, some would not.
  Their trunks, though smaller, had delicate and fine traceries of bark, showing an age far beyond their size.
  Naturalistic process is paramount; albums come with pithy back-stories haloed in hazy traceries of light, flickering with pastoral forest music, and whispering tape-hiss sprites.
  Her ruby eyes were underscored by traceries of barely distinguishable wrinkles, and her uncovered hands were worn thin with age.
  Their skins, a phosphorescent seafoam green, were embellished with a delicate tracery of painted tattoos - leaves, flowers, sperm, tears, butterflies.
  Over the skin was a delicate tracery of black tattooing, marred by a badly healed wound that ran diagonally across the face.
  The reading of the painting is controlled, held back, balked, as the eye scans the gap between traceries, the small negative spaces that become positive for a moment and shift the emphasis.
  The artist has said these red traceries indicate bloodlines linking all Chinese to one family, and may also refer to a shared history under Communist rule.
  Ochre and red rippled across the male's mantle, in the delicate, complex traceries of which only males were capable.
  Perhaps the least successful of the works is one of the large rectangular panels, overlaid with a tracery of thin clothbound branches, in which the underlying marks and carvings seem somewhat arbitrary and forced.
  As a 1917 photograph of this painting shows, the sail that fills much of the foreground originally bore a delicate tracery of rigging.
  Smoke rose from chimneys in the distant village, the traceries of smoke vertical in the crisp morning air.
  Beneath them they saw delicate traceries of red and realized that only inches below their feet the molten lava of Hawaii ran in its broken arteries.
  Like the caper white, many of the whites are plain on top, but when they close their wings you see fine traceries, often with yellow highlights.
  Faint traceries of blue light danced along the mirror-bright cutting edges.
  The delicate traceries of individual drawings mingle and tangle with each other, creating labyrinths of wings, teeth and sinewy limbs.
  In Splendor on the Bench, a realistically rendered vacuum-tube stereo amplifier sits alone in a paneled room, the painting's surface marked by a delicate tracery.
  The curtains are made of saris glittering with sequins a tracery of gold threads unfurling.
  Synonyms
  framework, grid, grate, network, grille, grillwork, lattice, trellis, criss-cross, matrix

词汇	tracery
释义	Definition of tracery in English: tracery nounPlural traceries ˈtreɪs(ə)riˈtreɪs(ə)ri mass nounArchitecture 1Ornamental stone openwork, typically in the upper part of a Gothic window. 〔建筑〕（尤指哥特式窗上部的）窗花格，装饰性石透雕细工 the rose designs were divided by tracery Example sentencesExamples The result incorporates a visible seismic infrastructure with shapes that reflect the traditional Gothic tracery. This was costly to construct, flamboyant, and characterized by ogee arches, flowing and inventive window tracery, and lighter vaulting. Earlier masons, he tells us, produced simple tracery in round windows by piercing stone discs. In addition, the top areas of the main windows are decorated with stone tracery describing trefoils, quatrefoils and Moorish arches. The main medieval style in western Europe, characterized by the pointed arch, slender columns and shafts, buttresses, pinnacles, and increasingly complex ceiling vaulting and window tracery. Windows were traditionally of translucent alabaster, but during the second Turkish occupation, deeply coloured stained glass began to be used in the decorative plaster window tracery. Synonyms web, criss-cross, grid, lattice, net, matrix, mesh, webbing, trellis 1.1count noun A delicate branching pattern. 分枝线条饰 a tracery of red veins 红色纹理的分枝线条饰。 Example sentencesExamples Compositions on white paper seem gently washed with faint shadows, while those on black paper are inhabited by cloudlike presences made of traceries of white filigree lines. Their trunks, though smaller, had delicate and fine traceries of bark, showing an age far beyond their size. The delicate traceries of individual drawings mingle and tangle with each other, creating labyrinths of wings, teeth and sinewy limbs. Like the caper white, many of the whites are plain on top, but when they close their wings you see fine traceries, often with yellow highlights. Faint traceries of blue light danced along the mirror-bright cutting edges. Her ruby eyes were underscored by traceries of barely distinguishable wrinkles, and her uncovered hands were worn thin with age. Perhaps the least successful of the works is one of the large rectangular panels, overlaid with a tracery of thin clothbound branches, in which the underlying marks and carvings seem somewhat arbitrary and forced. As a 1917 photograph of this painting shows, the sail that fills much of the foreground originally bore a delicate tracery of rigging. There's something about blocks of text, with odd patterns and traceries running through it, that is visually arresting. In Splendor on the Bench, a realistically rendered vacuum-tube stereo amplifier sits alone in a paneled room, the painting's surface marked by a delicate tracery. The artist has said these red traceries indicate bloodlines linking all Chinese to one family, and may also refer to a shared history under Communist rule. Naturalistic process is paramount; albums come with pithy back-stories haloed in hazy traceries of light, flickering with pastoral forest music, and whispering tape-hiss sprites. The curtains are made of saris glittering with sequins a tracery of gold threads unfurling. The reading of the painting is controlled, held back, balked, as the eye scans the gap between traceries, the small negative spaces that become positive for a moment and shift the emphasis. Ochre and red rippled across the male's mantle, in the delicate, complex traceries of which only males were capable. Their skins, a phosphorescent seafoam green, were embellished with a delicate tracery of painted tattoos - leaves, flowers, sperm, tears, butterflies. There were an assortment of fine traceries on his body, most were from shallower cuts and would eventually disappear, some would not. Over the skin was a delicate tracery of black tattooing, marred by a badly healed wound that ran diagonally across the face. Beneath them they saw delicate traceries of red and realized that only inches below their feet the molten lava of Hawaii ran in its broken arteries. Smoke rose from chimneys in the distant village, the traceries of smoke vertical in the crisp morning air. Synonyms framework, grid, grate, network, grille, grillwork, lattice, trellis, criss-cross, matrix Derivatives traceried adjective Architecture The octagonal lantern with delicate traceried panelling houses Great George, a bell of over nine tons. Example sentencesExamples The upper of the two steps upon which it stands is traceried, and there are four lions against the stem. The second level door has traceried sidelights and a fantail with decorative molding above the door. Traditional statuettes of saints stand under vaulted, traceried canopies. Rows of minute traceried windows are topped by projecting open canopies, while the towers are topped by polygonal miniature lamps. Definition of tracery in US English: tracery nounˈtrās(ə)rēˈtreɪs(ə)ri Architecture 1Ornamental stone openwork, typically in the upper part of a Gothic window. 〔建筑〕（尤指哥特式窗上部的）窗花格，装饰性石透雕细工 Example sentencesExamples The result incorporates a visible seismic infrastructure with shapes that reflect the traditional Gothic tracery. In addition, the top areas of the main windows are decorated with stone tracery describing trefoils, quatrefoils and Moorish arches. Windows were traditionally of translucent alabaster, but during the second Turkish occupation, deeply coloured stained glass began to be used in the decorative plaster window tracery. The main medieval style in western Europe, characterized by the pointed arch, slender columns and shafts, buttresses, pinnacles, and increasingly complex ceiling vaulting and window tracery. Earlier masons, he tells us, produced simple tracery in round windows by piercing stone discs. This was costly to construct, flamboyant, and characterized by ogee arches, flowing and inventive window tracery, and lighter vaulting. Synonyms web, criss-cross, grid, lattice, net, matrix, mesh, webbing, trellis 1.1 A delicate branching pattern. 分枝线条饰 a tracery of red veins 红色纹理的分枝线条饰。 Example sentencesExamples Compositions on white paper seem gently washed with faint shadows, while those on black paper are inhabited by cloudlike presences made of traceries of white filigree lines. There's something about blocks of text, with odd patterns and traceries running through it, that is visually arresting. There were an assortment of fine traceries on his body, most were from shallower cuts and would eventually disappear, some would not. Their trunks, though smaller, had delicate and fine traceries of bark, showing an age far beyond their size. Naturalistic process is paramount; albums come with pithy back-stories haloed in hazy traceries of light, flickering with pastoral forest music, and whispering tape-hiss sprites. Her ruby eyes were underscored by traceries of barely distinguishable wrinkles, and her uncovered hands were worn thin with age. Their skins, a phosphorescent seafoam green, were embellished with a delicate tracery of painted tattoos - leaves, flowers, sperm, tears, butterflies. Over the skin was a delicate tracery of black tattooing, marred by a badly healed wound that ran diagonally across the face. The reading of the painting is controlled, held back, balked, as the eye scans the gap between traceries, the small negative spaces that become positive for a moment and shift the emphasis. The artist has said these red traceries indicate bloodlines linking all Chinese to one family, and may also refer to a shared history under Communist rule. Ochre and red rippled across the male's mantle, in the delicate, complex traceries of which only males were capable. Perhaps the least successful of the works is one of the large rectangular panels, overlaid with a tracery of thin clothbound branches, in which the underlying marks and carvings seem somewhat arbitrary and forced. As a 1917 photograph of this painting shows, the sail that fills much of the foreground originally bore a delicate tracery of rigging. Smoke rose from chimneys in the distant village, the traceries of smoke vertical in the crisp morning air. Beneath them they saw delicate traceries of red and realized that only inches below their feet the molten lava of Hawaii ran in its broken arteries. Like the caper white, many of the whites are plain on top, but when they close their wings you see fine traceries, often with yellow highlights. Faint traceries of blue light danced along the mirror-bright cutting edges. The delicate traceries of individual drawings mingle and tangle with each other, creating labyrinths of wings, teeth and sinewy limbs. In Splendor on the Bench, a realistically rendered vacuum-tube stereo amplifier sits alone in a paneled room, the painting's surface marked by a delicate tracery. The curtains are made of saris glittering with sequins a tracery of gold threads unfurling. Synonyms framework, grid, grate, network, grille, grillwork, lattice, trellis, criss-cross, matrix
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