circumscribe
English
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Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin circumscrībō, from circum (“around”) + scrībō (“write”). Surface analysis: circum- (“around”) + scribe (“write”).
Pronunciation
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Audio (US): (file) Audio (AU): (file) - Rhymes: -aɪb
Verb
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- To draw a line around; to encircle.
- To limit narrowly; to restrict.
- 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
- It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; perhaps to moralise on the oneness or fragility of the planet, or to see humanity for the small and circumscribed thing that it is; […].
- (geometry) To draw the smallest circle or higher-dimensional sphere that has (a polyhedron, polygon, etc.) in its interior.
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Translations
to draw a line around; encircle
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to limit narrowly; restrict
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to draw a circle, sphere, or higher-dimensional ball
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Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) circumscrībe