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Separate; mark off
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demarcate
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. To mark the limits or boundaries of something; to delimit.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ And so on the City College campus a vague and indistinctly demarcated intellectual struggle assumed, amazingly, the form of melodrama. ▪ Behind it is a raw new settlement, plots of land demarcated by barbed wire. ▪ In any case ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1816, back-formation from demarcation . Related: Demarcated ; demarcating .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Demarcate \De*mar"cate\, v. t. [See Demarcation .] To mark by bounds; to set the limits of; to separate; to discriminate. --Wilkinson.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. separate clearly and as if by boundaries set, mark, or draw the boundaries of something [syn: delimit , delimitate ]
Usage examples of demarcate.
I saw the clearly demarcated prints of her teeth on her hand as it fell away to her side.
Though the beginning of this era is often demarcated by the nomination of Earl Warren to the chief justiceship in 1953, its gradual evolution actually began decades earlier with the nomination of Louis Brandeis as an associate justice in 1916.
His face, neck, and forearms had paled over the winter, but were still darker than the flesh of back and shouldersand a faint line still lingered round his waist, demarcating the soft buckskin color of his torso from the startling paleness of his backside.
It was good for schooning, too, and in little time Danlo reached the thirty-mile markers that demarcate the boundary of Neverness Island.
He saw the brilliant orange muzzle flashes of cannon demarcating the Omdurman side of the river.
I saw the clearly demarcated prints of her teeth on her hand as it fell away to her side.
Chaing meandered down a wide valley demarcated into fields and folds by ancient stone walls, with groups of stone farmsteads huddling under black feather trees and indigo oaks.
The largest taxonomic divisions distinguish between plants and animals, or between those organisms with poorly developed nuclei in their cells (such as bacteria and blue-green algae) and those with very clearly demarcated and elaborately architectured nuclei (such as protozoa or people).
But for me nothing so clearly demarcates the eras of “Before” and “After” as that first horrifying occasion when our poor, chilled, terrified bodies were seemingly borrowed without our consent, and used, and flung away.
There was nothing to indicate a way outno illuminated arrows, no distant light demarcating the location of the arch, nothing.
It is worth studying (all italics are his): With the transition to the sociocultural form of life, that is, with the introduction of the family structure [during preoperational/magic], there arose the problem of demarcating [beginning to differentiate] society from external nature.
It was about eight inches long and six wide, covered with vertical and horizontal lines forming small squares of equal size, most of them blacked in, the demarcating lines being pale blue in color.
There was nothing to indicate a way out—no illuminated arrows, no distant light demarcating the location of the arch, nothing.
The great empires had to demarcate themselves from a desocialized outer nature [biosphere] as well as from the social environment of those alien to the empire.