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Inscribe   /ɪnskrˈaɪb/   Listen
Inscribe

verb
(past & past part. inscribed; pres. part. inscribing)
1.
Carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface.  Synonyms: engrave, grave, scratch.  "Engraved the trophy cupt with the winner's" , "The lovers scratched their names into the bark of the tree"
2.
Register formally as a participant or member.  Synonyms: enrol, enroll, enter, recruit.
3.
Draw within a figure so as to touch in as many places as possible.
4.
Write, engrave, or print as a lasting record.
5.
Mark with one's signature.  Synonym: autograph.
6.
Convert ordinary language into code.  Synonyms: cipher, code, cypher, encipher, encrypt, write in code.
7.
Address, (a work of literature) in a style less formal than a dedication.





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"Inscribe" Quotes from Famous Books



... Ricketts, the marble-cutter, should fail to inscribe the date of his death in the space left vacant ...
— Tales From Bohemia • Robert Neilson Stephens
... thought of the laughter, the shrug, the jibe That would rise at her back in the nave when she should pass As another's avowed by the words she had chosen to inscribe On ...
— Late Lyrics and Earlier • Thomas Hardy
... oneself; on the other hand it was capable of forcing any one who used it to be absolutely honest in his dealings with his neighbours, and that surely was no small gain. Indeed it was enough to place him among the most famous discoverers in all ages, and to inscribe his name beside those of the noblest benefactors of man in ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... are whittled to skeletons. I have really seen whole houses, little more than shells, reduced to meagreness by the pocket-knife. The name of almost everybody on the continent is cut somewhere in the South; Virginia has more than enough names carved over her fireside altars to inscribe upon all ...
— Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, - and His Romaunt Abroad During the War • George Alfred Townsend
... the law of the successive distances was based on the inscription of a triangle in a circle. If you inscribe in a circle a large number of equilateral triangles, they envelop another circle bearing a definite ratio to the first: these might do for the orbits of two planets (see Fig. 27). Then try inscribing and circumscribing ...
— Pioneers of Science • Oliver Lodge


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