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circumscribe
[ sur-kuhm-skrahyb, sur-kuhm-skrahyb ]
verb (used with object)
- to draw a line around; encircle:
to circumscribe a city on a map.
- to enclose within bounds; limit or confine, especially narrowly:
Her social activities are circumscribed by school regulations.
- to mark off; define; delimit:
to circumscribe the area of a science.
- Geometry.
- to draw (a figure) around another figure so as to touch as many points as possible.
- (of a figure) to enclose (another figure) in this manner.
circumscribe
/ ˌsɜːkəmˈskraɪb; ˈsɜːkəmˌskraɪb /
verb
- to restrict within limits
- to mark or set the bounds of
- to draw a geometric construction around (another construction) so that the two are in contact but do not intersect Compare inscribe
- to draw a line round
circumscribe
/ sûr′kəm-skrīb′ /
- To draw a figure around another figure so as to touch as many points as possible. A circle that is circumscribed around a triangle touches it at each of the triangle's three vertices.
Derived Forms
- ˌcircumˈscriber, noun
- ˌcircumˈscribable, adjective
Other Words From
- circum·scriba·ble adjective
- circum·scriber noun
- non·circum·scribed adjective
- uncir·cum·scriba·ble adjective
- un·circum·scribed adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of circumscribe1
Word History and Origins
Origin of circumscribe1
Example Sentences
So when the pandemic hit, he felt determined to do more than just ensure the survival of his restaurant — he wanted to embed more deeply in the neighborhood, albeit from within the tightly circumscribed framework of fine dining.
This kind of effect on memory is likely to be short term and circumscribed to the information the subjects saved onto the device.
There is the man, who scared the living hell out of me, but the rage was about growing up in a world circumscribed by the reality of race.
For travelers like me circumscribed by the pandemic, aromas offer the chance to revisit cherished journeys.
Such is the unbearable situation created in a culture quick to judge, to expel and especially to circumscribe the lives of women.
Their opponents accepted the issue, and resolved to circumscribe the duke's inordinate powers.
It is my wish to state it with precision and circumscribe its limits here at the very start.
A new spirit has now gone abroad which no walls can bound or circumscribe.
This finally came to be so urgent that it even involved an effort to circumscribe the futile activities.
Of a simple and solid edifice, it is not easy, however, to circumscribe the duration.
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