单词 | delimit |
释义 | delimit (once / 19667 pages) 1v 2v WORD FAMILY delimit: delimited, delimiting, delimits USAGE EXAMPLESAs the camera work emphasizes through alternating crisp focus and strategic blur, Michelle’s sphere of attention is indeed delimited differently than most people’s. The New Yorker(Dec 22, 2016) Nothing in the law, he wrote, “indicates that Congress intended the department to define and delimit with respect to a minimum salary level.” New York Times(Nov 23, 2016) It empowers officers to respond to suspicious situations but insists that the tactic be carefully delimited. Washington Post(Nov 02, 2016) 1 1v set, mark, or draw the boundaries of something Syn|Hyper delimitate, demarcate circumscribe, confine, limit restrict or confine, "I limit you to two visits to the pub a day" 2v determine the essential quality of 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper define, delimitate, delineate, specify determine fix in scope; fix the boundaries of redefinegive a new or different definition to nail down, narrow, narrow down, peg down, pin down, specifydefine clearly be have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun) v be opposite to; of angles and sides, in geometry Syn|Hyper subtend be have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun) |
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