Synonyms of the word circumscribe


CIRCUMSCRIBECONFINE - DECREASE - DELINEATE - DESCRIBE - DRAW - LESSEN - LIMIT - LINE - MINIFY - TRACE

circumscribe

  • v. To draw a line around; to encircle.
  • v. To limit narrowly; to restrict.
  • v. (geometry) To draw the smallest circle or higher-dimensional sphere that has (a polyhedron, polygon, etc…

confine

  • v. (transitive) To restrict; to keep within bounds; to shut or keep in a limited space or area.
  • v. To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; followed by on or with.
  • n. Limit.

decrease

  • v. (intransitive) Of a quantity, to become smaller.
  • v. (transitive) To make (a quantity) smaller.
  • n. An amount by which a quantity is decreased.
  • n. (knitting) A reduction in the number of stitches, usually accomplished by suspending the stitch to be…

delineate

  • v. To sketch out, draw or trace an outline.
  • v. To depict, represent with pictures.
  • v. To describe or depict with words or gestures.
  • v. To outline or mark out.

describe

  • v. (transitive) To represent in words.
  • v. (transitive) To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out.
  • v. (transitive, mathematics) To give rise to a geometrical structure.
  • v. (transitive, taxonomy) To introduce a new taxon to science by explaining its characteristics and particularly…
  • v. (obsolete) To distribute into parts, groups, or classes; to mark off; to class.

draw

  • v. (heading) To move or develop something.
  • v. (heading) To exert or experience force.
  • v. (heading, fluidic) To remove or separate or displace.
  • v. (heading) To change in size or shape.
  • v. (heading) To attract or be attracted.
  • v. (Usually as draw on or draw upon): to rely on; utilize as a source.
  • v. To disembowel.
  • v. (transitive or intransitive) To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).
  • v. A random selection process.
  • v. (curling) To make a shot that lands in the house without hitting another stone.
  • v. (cricket) To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect…
  • v. (golf) To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.
  • v. (billiards) To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes…
  • n. The result of a contest in which neither side has won; a tie.
  • n. The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.
  • n. Something that attracts e.g. a crowd.
  • n. (cricket) The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings…
  • n. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice,…
  • n. (curling) A shot that lands in the house without hitting another stone.
  • n. (geography) A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.
  • n. (colloquial) Cannabis.
  • n. In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.
  • n. (poker) A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary…
  • n. (archery) The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing.
  • n. (sports) The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.

lessen

  • v. (transitive) To make less; to diminish; to reduce.
  • v. (intransitive) To become less.

limit

  • n. A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
  • n. (mathematics) A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit…
  • n. (mathematics) Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
  • n. (category theory) The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.
  • n. (poker) Short for fixed limit.
  • n. The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
  • n. (obsolete) The space or thing defined by limits.
  • n. (obsolete) That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
  • n. (obsolete) A restriction; a check or curb; a hindrance.
  • n. (logic, metaphysics) A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
  • n. (cycling) The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race.
  • adj. (poker) Being a fixed limit game.
  • v. (transitive) To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound.
  • v. (mathematics, intransitive) To have a limit in a particular set.
  • v. (obsolete) To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region.

line

  • n. A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen;…
  • n. A rope, cord, string, or thread, of any thickness.
  • n. A hose or pipe, of any size.
  • n. Direction, path.
  • n. The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points:…
  • n. A letter, a written form of communication.
  • n. A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement…
  • n. (military) A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied…
  • n. The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.
  • n. A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure.
  • n. (obsolete) A measuring line or cord.
  • n. That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place…
  • n. A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.
  • n. Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body).
  • n. A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often…
  • n. (military) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry,…
  • n. A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.
  • n. A small amount of text. Specifically.
  • n. Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade,…
  • n. The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political…
  • n. The products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself.
  • n. (stock exchange) A number of shares taken by a jobber.
  • n. A measure of length.
  • n. (historical) A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.
  • n. (baseball, slang, 1800s, with "the") The batter’s box.
  • n. (fencing, ‘line of engagement’) The position in which the fencers hold their swords.
  • n. (engineering) Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with…
  • n. A small portion or serving (of a powdery illegal drug).
  • n. (obsolete) Instruction; doctrine.
  • n. (genetics) Population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup.
  • n. (perfusion line) a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way stopcock…
  • n. (ice hockey) A group of forwards that play together.
  • v. (transitive) To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.
  • v. (transitive) To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding;…
  • v. To form a line along.
  • v. (transitive) To mark with a line or lines, to cover with lines.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray.
  • v. (transitive) To read or repeat line by line.
  • v. (intransitive, ‘line up’) To form or enter into a line.
  • v. (intransitive, baseball) To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare…
  • v. To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
  • n. (obsolete) Flax; linen, particularly the longer fiber of flax.
  • v. (transitive) To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.
  • v. To reinforce (the back of a book) with glue and glued scrap material such as fabric or paper.
  • v. (transitive) To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.
  • v. (transitive, now rare, of a dog) to copulate with, to impregnate.

minify

  • v. To make smaller.
  • v. To reduce in apparent size, as for example objects viewed through a lens or mirror shaped so as to increase…
  • v. (computing) To remove white space and unnecessary characters from a web page's source code in order to…

trace

  • n. An act of tracing.
  • n. An enquiry sent out for a missing article, such as a letter or an express package.
  • n. A mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal.
  • n. A very small amount.
  • n. (electronics) A current-carrying conductive pathway on a printed circuit board.
  • n. An informal road or prominent path in an arid area.
  • n. One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whippletree…
  • n. (engineering) A connecting bar or rod, pivoted at each end to the end of another piece, for transmitting…
  • n. (fortification) The ground plan of a work or works.
  • n. The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.
  • n. (mathematics) The sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix.
  • n. (grammar) An empty category occupying a position in the syntactic structure from which something has been…
  • v. (transitive) To follow the trail of.
  • v. To follow the history of.
  • v. (transitive) To draw or sketch lightly or with care.
  • v. (transitive) To copy onto a sheet of paper superimposed over the original, by drawing over its lines.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To copy; to imitate.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To walk; to go; to travel.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.
  • v. (computing, transitive) To follow the execution of the program by making it to stop after every instruction,…

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