Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - circumscribe
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Circumscribe
circumscribe
(circumscribes, circumscribing, circumscribed) If someone’s power or freedom is circumscribed, it is limited or restricted. (FORMAL) The army evidently fears that, under him, its activities would be severely circumscribed... There are laws circumscribing the right of individual citizens to cause bodily harm to others. = limit VERB: be V-ed, V n
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transitive verb Etymology: Middle English circumscriven, from Latin ~re, from circum- + scribere to write, draw — more at scribe Date: 14th century 1. a. to constrict the range or activity of definitely and clearly his role was carefully ~d b. to define or mark off carefully a study of plant species in a ~d area 2. a. to draw a line around b. to surround by or as if by a boundary fields ~d by tall trees 3. to construct or be constructed around (a geometrical figure) so as to touch as many points as possible Synonyms: see limit ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v.tr. 1 (of a line etc.) enclose or outline. 2 lay down the limits of; confine, restrict. 3 Geom. draw (a figure) round another, touching it at points but not cutting it (cf. INSCRIBE). Derivatives circumscribable adj. circumscriber n. circumscription n. Etymology: L circumscribere (as CIRCUM-, scribere script- write) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1) геом. описывать фигуру 2) обозначать пределы, проф. оконтуривать to circumscribe a circle — описывать окружность ...Англо-русский Русско-английский научно-технический словарь
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1. очерчивать; ограничивать, обозначать пределы circumscribed by the ocean —- омываемый со всех сторон океаном 2. ограничивать (права, интересы) therefore must his choice be circumscribed —- поэтому он не волен выбирать 3. мат. описывать (фигуру) ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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v. 1) ограничивать; обозначать пределы to circumscribe smb. s power of action - ограничивать чьи-л. права 2) geom. описывать Syn: bound, contain, encircle, enclose, encompass, envelop, surround ...Англо-русский словарь
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~ v 1 often passive formal to limit power, rights, or abilities; restrict (All our minds are heavily circumscribed by habit.) 2 technical to draw a line around something (a circle circumscribed by a square) - circumscription n ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- c.1385, from L. circumscribere "to draw a line around, limit, confine," from circum- "around" + scribere "write." ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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