Used in a Sentence

delimited

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

Editorial note

From `man wc`: A line is defined as a string of characters delimited by a <newline> character.

Examples16
Definitions2
Parts of speech1

Quick take

Within set boundaries or limits.

Meaning at a glance

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

adjective

Within set boundaries or limits.

adjective

With specified conditions.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for delimited.

Example sentences

1

From `man wc`: A line is defined as a string of characters delimited by a <newline> character.

2

The octaves are seemingly delimited by solid black lines, but these lines actually represent the note C#, counterintuitively.

3

Is the advantage of pinot that it is not as strict on data format as Druid (which requires json/delimited)...?

4

Obviously, this is most useful in a delimited way and this is exactly a maybe monad.

5

As for blocks (those things delimited by brackets) they're technically a data-structure (actually all code is an implicit data structure).

6

Assuming you need to scan them anyway, delimited fields can also be faster to scan.

7

Then, anywhere you have global continuations you can have delimited continuations with one global variable.

8

There is the obvious visibility issue, but tab delimited files are still quite common.

9

Source: My employer (a major site with Alexa rank <100) contacted ABP asking to have our text-only, clearly-delimited sponsored search results whitelisted.

10

One thing I like with syntax highlighting is when a string or other delimited expression hasn't been closed (e.g.

11

The things that seem clear are: * Without the absolute simplicity of the prefix-style paren-delimited Lisp syntax, true macro power is almost impossibly hard/complex/messy.

12

It dumped everything in one giant file (delimited by #file markers, though).

Quote examples

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And the Clojure example makes me say "aaah the ambiguity!" The key/value pairs makes much more sense to me when they are delimited as such.

2

(In actual rhetoric, the descriptors would probably be different.) But it's completely impossible for the "hiking" of "hiking boots" to be delimited by commas (in speech, emphatic pauses) that way.

3

Such as print 2 print 2 print 2 print 2 print 2 print 2 print 2 print 2 print 2 print 2 print 2 print 2 repeat 4 2 print 2 repeat 4 2 print 2 repeat 4 2 print 2 repeat 4 2 And One with 15 print 2 statements followed by 5 "repeat 5 2" statements delimited by "print 2" statements.

4

I wonder if this would be needed if you could tag stories and posts with space-delimited strings, such as "python css oss", which upon being sent to the server would get converted into "python", "css", and "oss" tags.

Frequently asked questions

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

How do you use delimited in a sentence?

From `man wc`: A line is defined as a string of characters delimited by a <newline> character.

What does delimited mean?

Within set boundaries or limits.

What part of speech is delimited?

delimited is commonly used as adjective.