Crossword clues for inscribe
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inscribe \In*scribe"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inscribed; p. pr. & vb. n. Inscribing.] [L. inscribere. See 1st In-, and Scribe.]
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To write or engrave; to mark down as something to be read; to imprint.
Inscribe a verse on this relenting stone.
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To mark with letters, characters, or words.
O let thy once lov'd friend inscribe thy stone.
--Pope. To assign or address to; to commend to by a short address; to dedicate informally; as, to inscribe an ode to a friend.
--Dryden.To imprint deeply; to impress; to stamp; as, to inscribe a sentence on the memory.
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(Geom.) To draw within so as to meet yet not cut the boundaries.
Note: A line is inscribed in a circle, or in a sphere, when its two ends are in the circumference of the circle, or in the surface of the sphere. A triangle is inscribed in another triangle, when the three angles of the former are severally on the three sides of the latter. A circle is inscribed in a polygon, when it touches each side of the polygon. A sphere is inscribed in a polyhedron, when the sphere touches each boundary plane of the polyhedron. The latter figure in each case is circumscribed about the former.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s (form inscriven is from late 14c.), from Latin inscribere "to write in or on," (see inscription). Meaning "to dedicate (by means of an inscription)" is from 1640s. Related: Inscribed; inscribing.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To write or cut words onto something, especially a hard surface; to engrave. 2 (context geometry English) To draw a circle, sphere, etc. inside a polygon, polyhedron, etc. and tangent to all its sides.
WordNet
v. carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface; "engrave a pen"; "engraved the winner's name onto the trophy cup" [syn: engrave, grave]
register formally as a participant or member; "The party recruited many new members" [syn: enroll, enter, enrol, recruit]
draw within a figure so as to touch in as many places as possible
write, engrave, or print as a lasting record
mark with one's signature; "The author autographed his book" [syn: autograph]
convert ordinary language into code; "We should encode the message for security reasons" [syn: encode, code, encipher, cipher, cypher, encrypt, write in code] [ant: decode]
address, as a work of literature, in a style less formal than a dedication
Usage examples of "inscribe".
Among these were drawings of two small fragments of agate, inscribed with characters.
This gave him 20 letters, since j, u, and w were not in his alphabet, and in the remaining four spaces he inscribed the numbers 1 and 4 in black.
Instead, they inscribed the disgusting names of their Boche generals and colonels.
And, of course, that if an equilateral pentagon be inscribed in a circle, the square on the side of the pentagon is equal to the squares on the side of the hexagon and on that of the decagon inscribed in the same circle!
This is the day, I say, when, as much as on any other, the valor of this my arm will be proved, and I shall perform deeds that will be inscribed in the book of Fame for all time to come.
Bourrienne that, on his return, he got his name erased from the list of emigrants of the department of the Yonne, on which it had been inscribed during his first journey to Germany.
I wonder how, in their canons of beauty, the Latins could possibly have inscribed Frons minima, underrating the forehead, the sublimest feature in the human face, the great distinction between our countenance and that of our Simian prototypes.
THE girasol sent jagged gleams of purple and green and crimson as the lean hand of The Shadow inscribed more names on his list.
The merchant duly signed the contract, at the foot of which I had the honour of inscribing my name as a witness, and then I took the merchant to the mother, and he witnessed her cession of her daughter.
All these ephemera were inscribed on paper by machines like the mimeograph or hectograph, machines that required infinite labor on the part of the user before an acceptable copy could be produced.
The count was addressing the company, under the last poster threatening him with death, two very energetic lines were inscribed by the person who put up the poster, knowing that he was at the same time running his head into the noose: Si me cogen, me horqueran, Pero no me cogeran.
However, their languages are ideogrammic, and the blocks are inscribed with entire words.
Dhor peered through the transparent dome, saw a cushioned seat, a series of little levers inscribed with characters strange to him and a large knurled ball mounted on a metal rod.
Ibn Kora was convinced that his entire life had already been inscribed in a book and was patterned according to a story told long, long ago.
Or he could run his hand along a line of dangling sheep shoulder blades, each bone inscribed with the mani, strung like wind chimes, and they prayed for him as long as they went on clattering.