单词	circumscribe
释义	circumscribecir‧cum‧scribe /ˈsɜːkəmskraɪb $ ˈsɜːr-/ verb [transitive] Word Origin WORD ORIGINcircumscribe Origin: 1300-1400 Latin circumscribere, from circum- ( ➔ CIRCUM-) + scribere ‘to write, draw’ Verb Table VERB TABLE circumscribe Simple Form Present I, you, we, they circumscribe he, she, it circumscribes Past I, you, he, she, it, we, they circumscribed Present perfect I, you, we, they have circumscribed he, she, it has circumscribed Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had circumscribed Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will circumscribe Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have circumscribed Continuous Form Present I am circumscribing he, she, it is circumscribing you, we, they are circumscribing Past I, he, she, it was circumscribing you, we, they were circumscribing Present perfect I, you, we, they have been circumscribing he, she, it has been circumscribing Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had been circumscribing Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will be circumscribing Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have been circumscribing Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES In the middle of the drawing was a circle circumscribed by a square. The church's role was tightly circumscribed by the new government. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS All matter in the universe is encased in a spherical shell with clearly circumscribed boundaries. But they are still highly circumscribed in their authority, and wholly dependent upon their salaried employment. He could hardly be more circumscribed. Otherwise, each had separately recognized, the future was circumscribed. Their autonomy, it is true, was carefully circumscribed. Travel is only one of many instances of circumscribed existence. Without ciphers and diplomatic bags, espionage and counter-espionage actions were likely to be circumscribed. word sets WORD SETS► Maths abacus, nounalgebra, nounangle, nounarc, nounarea, nounarithmetic, nounarithmetic, adjectivearithmetic progression, nounaxis, nounbar chart, nounbar graph, nounbase, nounbinomial, nounbisect, verbBoolean, adjectiveC, nouncalculator, nouncalculus, nouncanonical, adjectivechord, nouncipher, nouncircumference, nouncircumscribe, verbcompass, nouncomplementary, adjectivecomputation, nouncompute, verbconcentric, adjectivecone, nouncongruent, adjectiveconical, adjectiveconstant, nouncontain, verbcoordinate, nouncoordinate, adjectivecos, cosine, nouncube, nouncubic, adjectivecurvature, nouncurve, nouncut, verbdeci-, prefixdeviation, noundiagonal, adjectivediameter, noundifferential calculus, noundigit, noundimension, noundomain, nouneccentric, adjectiveellipse, nounelliptical, adjectiveequal, adjectiveequal, verbequals sign, nounequation, nounequilateral triangle, nounexponential, adjectiveexpress, verbexpression, nounface, nounfigure, nounflow chart, nounformula, nounfraction, nounfractional, adjectivefunction, noungeometric, adjectivegeometry, noungraph, noungraphically, adverbgraph paper, noungrid, nounHCF, helix, nounheptagon, nounhexagon, nounhistogram, nounhypotenuse, nounimperial, adjectiveimproper fraction, nouninfinity, nouninformation theory, nouninnumerate, adjectiveinto, prepositioninverse, adjectiveisosceles triangle, nounline graph, log, nounlogarithm, nounlong division, nounlozenge, nounmath, nounmathematical, adjectivemathematician, nounmathematics, nounmatrix, nounmean, adjectivemedian, nounmedian, adjectivemetric, adjectiveminus, prepositionminus, nounminus, adjectiveminus sign, nounminute, nounmultiplication, nounmultiplication sign, nounmultiplication table, nounmultiply, verbN, nounnumber, nounnumerate, adjectivenumeration, nounoblong, adjectiveobtuse angle, nounoctagon, nounoval, nounparabola, nounparallel, adjectiveparallelogram, nounpentagon, nounpercentage, nounperimeter, nounperpendicular, nounpi, nounpictogram, nounpie chart, nounplane, nounplane geometry, nounplus, prepositionplus, nounplus, adjectiveplus sign, nounpolygon, nounpolyhedron, nounpower, nounprism, nounprobability, nounproof, nounproportion, nounproposition, nounprotractor, nounquadrangle, nounquadrant, nounquadratic equation, nounquadri-, prefixquadrilateral, nounradius, nounratio, nounrectangle, nounrectilinear, adjectiverecur, verbrhombus, nounright angle, nounright-angled triangle, nounroot, nounruler, nounscale, nounscalene triangle, nounscatter diagram, section, nounsegment, nounsemicircle, nounset square, nounsine, nounslide rule, nounsolid, adjectivesolid, nounsolution, nounsolve, verbsphere, nounsquare, adjectivesquare, nounsquare, verbsquare, adverbsquarely, adverbsquare root, nounsubset, nounsubtract, verbsubtraction, nounsum, nounsurface area, nounsymmetrical, adjectivesymmetry, nountangent, nounterm, nountheorem, nounthreefold, adjectivetimes, prepositiontrapezium, nountriangle, nountrigonometry, nountwo-dimensional, adjectivevalue, nounvariable, nounvector, nounVenn diagram, nounvertex, nounvertical, adjectivevolume, nounwork, verbX, nounx-axis, nouny-axis, noun 1formal to limit power, rights, or abilities SYN  restrict:  The president’s power is circumscribed by Congress and the Supreme Court.2 technical to draw a line around something:  a circle circumscribed by a squareGRAMMAR Circumscribe is usually passive.
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