circumscribe['sə:kəmskraib; ,sə:kəm's-]

• vt.
  • 在…周围画线；包围；围绕：

    Please circumscribe the words which are wrongly spelled.

    请将拼错的词圈出来。

  • 划分出…的界线，立界限于，限定：

    to be circumscribed by laws

    由法律加以限定

  • 标出；给…下定义，定…边界：

    to circumscribe with a line

    画线为界

  • 限制；约束：

    to circumscribe it within narrow bounds

    把它约束在狭小的范围之内

    Their activities were severely circumscribed.

    他们的活动受到严格限制。

  • 【几何学】使外接，使外切；为…画外接(或外切)图形：

    to circumscribe a triangle

    画三角形的外接圆

    It is a circle that is circumscribed around a square.

    那是一个正方形的外接圆。

• 近义词:

  limit

• 变形:

  vt.circumscribed.circumscribing