单词 | delimit |
释义 | delimitv. 1. transitive. To mark or determine the limits of (something); to mark off, separate, or distinguish (something) from something else. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or restricted in application > quality of being restricted or limited > restrict or limit [verb (transitive)] > limit or define definec1400 hedgec1440 determinate1563 demark1834 delimit1849 1849 [implied in: C. D. Meigs Remarks on Spasmodic Cholera 22 The zoological Method, or Classification rests upon the dogma that the nervous mass is the Ens-vivum, the thing that lives..; and that all else within its delimiting superficies is not Ens-vivum, but only the appurtenants..thereof. (at delimiting adj.)]. 1852 W. E. Gladstone in Edinb. Rev. Apr. 360 Other nations are to delimit for themselves the possessions and status of the clergy. 1887 H. E. F. Garnsey tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Morphol. & Biol. Fungi 500/1 Sprouting, formation of an excrescence with a narrow base..which after enlargement is delimited by a transverse wall. 1950 Evolution 4 177/1 Paleontologic genera frequently cannot be delimited objectively from those stratigraphically below or above them. 2019 K. Forrester In Shadow of Justice iii. 82 Many began to bring to bear tools from linguistic analysis and philosophy of action to posit moral rules, delimit what was permissible, and decide who should be protected in war. 2. transitive. To mark or determine (a limit or boundary). ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > bound or form boundary of [verb (transitive)] terminate?a1425 border1570 limit1578 frontier1599 lista1600 bound1601 confine1601 bounder1636 verge1817 delimit1879 the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > bound or form boundary of [verb (transitive)] > fix boundary of meteeOE markeOE mereOE bound1393 determinea1398 terminea1398 rede1415 measurea1513 butt1523 space1548 limit1555 determinate1563 to mark out1611 contermine1624 to run out1671 verge1759 demarcate1816 outline1817 define1843 rope1862 delimit1879 delimitate1879 1879 Standard 14 Oct. 3/2 The members of the Commission ascended Mount Suka, which commands a view of the greatest part of the frontier which has to be delimited. 1885 Times 10 Apr. 9 The question of delimiting the Russo-Afghan frontier. 1920 V. Steffanson in Geogr. Rev. 10 168 The intersecting arcs delimit the inner border of a zone of ‘comparative accessibility’. 2010 J. Mittelman & J. Stump in J. Mittelman Hyperconflict vi. 118 A historical practice that delimits social boundaries between communities of friends and enemies. Derivatives deˈlimited adj. ΚΠ 1867 Pall Mall Gaz. 12 Oct. 5/2 The Greek debt, which was contracted before there was a regular Government, or even a delimited State. 1960 K. Esau Anat. Seed Plants i. 6 Secretory cells..do not form clearly delimited tissues but occur within other tissues. 2015 J. C. Krupnick & C. Winship in O. Patterson & E. Fosse Cultural Matrix ix. 318 They belong to a self-defined and delimited community of young black men who strongly identify with the gang world. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1849 |
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