circumscribing
present participle ofcircumscribe
| 单词 | circumscribing |
| 释义 | circumscribing present participle ofcircumscribe circumscribe verb uk/ˈsɜː.kəm.skraɪb/us/ˈsɝː.kəm.skraɪb/[Toften passive]formal tolimitsomething: Theirmovementshave beenseverelycircumscribed since thelawscame intoeffect. Therefollowedaseriesoftightlycircumscribedvisitstomilitaryinstallations. [T]mathematicsspecialized If you circumscribe atriangle,square, etc., youdrawacirclethatsurroundsit andtoucheseach ofitscorners. Limiting and restricting
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Enclosing, surrounding and immersing Examplesofcircumscribingcircumscribing In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. But they swiftly recognised its potential forcircumscribingthe workers' ability to organize and sustain strikes across the industry as a whole. From theCambridge English Corpus Boundaries can be described either by the actual profiles of the objects, or by theircircumscribingcircles 0 rectangles 0polygons. From theCambridge English Corpus Even whencircumscribingdecentralisation in this way, there are many areas in which central governments can devolve power. From theCambridge English Corpus Applying the same principle used for thecircumscribingspheres. From theCambridge English Corpus The tetrahedron, the octahedron and the cube may all be related to the diameter of thecircumscribingsphere with lengths which are 'commensurable in square'. From theCambridge English Corpus It was undermined by ' impatient ' kingship and ' ferrets ' at court and thecircumscribingof local autonomy by both prerogative and episcopal authority. From theCambridge English Corpus Dominant groups or powers thus restrict minorities by speaking both about and for them,circumscribingtheir rights or potential to define themselves. From theCambridge English Corpus She strongly suggests that "circumscribingthe variable context" of the linguistic variable be both a starting point and ending point in variationist analysis. From theCambridge English Corpus In particular, the intergovernmental agreements of the 1990s certainly had a strongcircumscribingimpact. From theCambridge English Corpus Dominant disciplinary practices, bycircumscribingour understanding of the way international politics is constituted, have denied international actors this capacity to think through the consequences of their actions. From theCambridge English Corpus The constitution provides the formal and legal framework for governance, but the informal and ' virtual ' discoursecircumscribingpolitical activity has blurred the lines of demarcation between government, front, and party. From theCambridge English Corpus Circumscribingthese difficulties, restrict the proportionality rule to situations where all individuals are interested in the expected level of utility they'll receive from a social randomization. From theCambridge English Corpus Globalization, so the argument goes, is increasinglycircumscribingthe autonomy of the modern state, leading to what some observers call 'neo-liberal convergence'. From theCambridge English Corpus Our discipline has spent relatively little time on the former route and has increasingly taken the second path, progressivelycircumscribingan increasingly specialized behavioral paradigm that rarely reflects real-world behaviors. From theCambridge English Corpus However, the framework will be an international legal instrumentcircumscribingthe global spread of tobacco products. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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