draw a line around; "He drew a circle around the points"
circumscribe
How to use circumscribe in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for circumscribe.
Editorial note
But does the peg's circle circumscribe or inscribe the hole's square?Sorry, I couldn't resist.
Quick take
draw a line around; "He drew a circle around the points"
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of circumscribe gathered in one view.
restrict or confine, "I limit you to two visits to the pub a day"
to draw a geometric figure around another figure so that the two are in contact but do not intersect
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for circumscribe.
verb
draw a line around; "He drew a circle around the points"
verb
restrict or confine, "I limit you to two visits to the pub a day"
verb
to draw a geometric figure around another figure so that the two are in contact but do not intersect
Example sentences
But does the peg's circle circumscribe or inscribe the hole's square?Sorry, I couldn't resist.
If everything on the surface of the earth was constantly trying to circumscribe it, we'd have a lot more stuff colliding than we already do...
Who could imagine such a batch of soi-disant freethinkers, who all seem to feel the same need to carefully curate and circumscribe the thoughts they're willing to think?
"First, you can ask for power measured in "How completely does this language serve to articulate and circumscribe any thought which I might, as a human, want to have?".
Essentially you are arguing that the people should further circumscribe Individual rights like entering into a contract.
Often the impulse is to use regulation to circumscribe such damages, but in the case of the press, doing so has unconscionable consequences as well.
For me the key quote is “One of the trends that’s jumped out is that lockdown orders have tended to ratify public behaviour as much as prescribe or circumscribe it”.
It's up the desktop computational capacity scale where use cases aren't as elegant as the fairly easy to circumscribe NUC applications.
The impression I have is that we all, vegans included, draw a line somewhere, and that there's almost never any solid reasoning behind anyone's decision on how to circumscribe his diet.
As long as digital freedoms remain unlegislated, government will circumscribe ever-shrinking boundaries with and without the help of industry.
If it was developed by a state actor, peers can exert pressure and international law to circumscribe the potential for future harms, and the political processes internal to the state will become empowered to make internal changes to prevent harms to the people and the state such as result.
In advance of further discussion, my preliminary conclusion is that the vegan line is just as arbitrary as any other, but drawn so as to more tightly circumscribe those species on which the infliction of pain is acceptable, presumably out of a desire to inflict the least possible harm -- an honorable intent, but I think not honorable enough to satisfy at least some vegans, who insist upon seeing themselves as taking the only moral option, rather than merely the least practicable immoral option.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use circumscribe in a sentence?
But does the peg's circle circumscribe or inscribe the hole's square?Sorry, I couldn't resist.
What does circumscribe mean?
draw a line around; "He drew a circle around the points"
What part of speech is circumscribe?
circumscribe is commonly used as verb.