Used in a Sentence

tracery

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for tracery.

Editorial note

There's even tools like Tracery that let you construct grammars and vocabularies as a form of textual generative art.

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Definitions2
Parts of speech1

Quick take

(by extension) A delicate interlacing of lines reminiscent of the architectural ornament.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of tracery gathered in one view.

noun

(by extension) A delicate interlacing of lines reminiscent of the architectural ornament.

noun

(architecture) Bars or ribs, usually of stone or wood, or other material, that subdivide an opening or stand in relief against a door or wall as an ornamental feature.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for tracery.

noun

(by extension) A delicate interlacing of lines reminiscent of the architectural ornament.

noun

(architecture) Bars or ribs, usually of stone or wood, or other material, that subdivide an opening or stand in relief against a door or wall as an ornamental feature.

Example sentences

1

There's even tools like Tracery that let you construct grammars and vocabularies as a form of textual generative art.

2

We were considering vendoring tracery into open-source project for improving a core API method for composing data.

3

It uses a framework called Tracery that implements a limited language that expands upon symbols to create procedurally generated texts.

4

It's based off the old version of Tracery and also has no unit tests.

5

You could probably build a Tracery grammar that conveyed a certain set of semantic information with a large number of possible syntactic permutations.

6

I haven't tried Bottery, but the related Tracery tool is wonderful if you happen to need generated text of a certain level of complexity.

7

Ah, super interesting and it introduced me to Tracery (which is nice because I have my own text generation tool and it's gratifying to see that Tracery's grammar isn't that far off what I evolved for mine.

8

Only in Marco Polo's accounts was Kublai Khan able to discern, through the walls and towers destined to crumble, the tracery of a pattern so subtle it could escape the termites' gnawing.

9

I hope that either that mesh isn't all that important, or that we are effectively-100% sure this part is never going to corrode or experience other manufacturing defects (excessively large metal crystals perhaps) that could cause such a fine tracery of metal to be not work the way the model is expecting.

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From out the caves of evening that swing between the strong-limbed earth and the tracery of the stars, I summon Aristotle and Aurelius and what soul I will, and they come all graciously with no scorn nor condescension.

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From out the caves of evening that swing between the strong- limbed earth and the tracery of the stars, I summon Aristotle and Aurelius and what soul I will, and they come all graciously with no scorn nor condescension.

Quote examples

1

> "Music, in the absolute sense, is the invisible geometry of the cosmos, a delicate tracery of frequencies that harmonise with each other and from which all matter manifests." Only if you define "music" very loosely, and probably not even then.

2

(I do also use it for gaming, and for music listening.) For audio calls they're not going to see it anyway, and I don't think most of the people I talk to would care if they saw it on a video call; the design doesn't scream “business”, but the red metal tracery is the only flashy thing about it, and that's kinda subtle.

Proper noun examples

1

It's inspired by Tracery[2] but takes advantage of macros to make it easier to read and feel more like part of the language.

2

It would have been nice to see an update to Tracery.

3

Tracery is straightforward enough for kids old enough to read.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use tracery in a sentence?

There's even tools like Tracery that let you construct grammars and vocabularies as a form of textual generative art.

What does tracery mean?

(by extension) A delicate interlacing of lines reminiscent of the architectural ornament.

What part of speech is tracery?

tracery is commonly used as noun.