"delimit" meaning in English

See delimit in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /dɪˈlɪmɪt/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-delimit.wav Forms: delimits [present, singular, third-person], delimiting [participle, present], delimited [participle, past], delimited [past]
Rhymes: -ɪmɪt Etymology: From French délimiter, from Late Latin dēlīmitō (“I mark out the limits”), from dē- + līmitō (“I limit, I bound”); see limit. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|délimiter}} French délimiter, {{der|en|LL.|dēlīmitō||I mark out the limits}} Late Latin dēlīmitō (“I mark out the limits”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} delimit (third-person singular simple present delimits, present participle delimiting, simple past and past participle delimited)
  1. (transitive) To mark or fix the limits of. Tags: transitive Translations (to mark or fix the limits of): определям граница (opredeljam granica) (Bulgarian), سنور پێدان (snur pêdan) (Central Kurdish), afgrænse (Danish), rajata (Finnish), derregar (Galician), estremar (Galician), demarcar (Galician), eingrenzen (German), οριοθετώ (oriothetó) (Greek), οροθετώ (orothetó) (Greek), teorannaigh (Irish), delimitare (Italian), demarcare (Italian), fissare (Italian), delimitar (Portuguese), разграни́чивать (razgraníčivatʹ) (Russian), размежёвывать (razmežóvyvatʹ) (Russian), delimitar (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-delimit-en-verb-XSZvtUjV Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 53 47 Disambiguation of 'to mark or fix the limits of': 99 1
  2. (transitive) To demarcate. Tags: transitive Translations (to demarcate): разделям (razdeljam) (Bulgarian), разграничавам (razgraničavam) (Bulgarian), rajata (Finnish), deliminar (Portuguese), demarcar (Portuguese), delimitar (Spanish), demarcar (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-delimit-en-verb-9elbFtf3 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Central Kurdish translations, Terms with Danish translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with Galician translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Irish translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 53 47 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 43 57 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 42 58 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 42 58 Disambiguation of Terms with Central Kurdish translations: 22 78 Disambiguation of Terms with Danish translations: 25 75 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 42 58 Disambiguation of Terms with Galician translations: 42 58 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 42 58 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 43 57 Disambiguation of Terms with Irish translations: 42 58 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 41 59 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 42 58 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 42 58 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 41 59 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 33 67 Disambiguation of 'to demarcate': 1 99
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: limit, limitation, delimitation, delimiter, unlimit (english: to remove limits)

Inflected forms

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          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "to mark or fix the limits of",
          "word": "teorannaigh"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to mark or fix the limits of",
          "word": "delimitare"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to mark or fix the limits of",
          "word": "demarcare"
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          "_dis1": "99 1",
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          "_dis1": "99 1",
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          "text": "Data items in the computer file were delimited by commas."
        },
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          "text": "The square brackets delimit the list, and individual elements are separated by commas.ᵂᴮ"
        }
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        "To demarcate."
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        "(transitive) To demarcate."
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          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "bg",
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          "roman": "razdeljam",
          "sense": "to demarcate",
          "word": "разделям"
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          "roman": "razgraničavam",
          "sense": "to demarcate",
          "word": "разграничавам"
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          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to demarcate",
          "word": "rajata"
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          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "to demarcate",
          "word": "deliminar"
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          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "to demarcate",
          "word": "demarcar"
        },
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          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to demarcate",
          "word": "delimitar"
        },
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          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to demarcate",
          "word": "demarcar"
        }
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      "code": "bg",
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      "sense": "to mark or fix the limits of",
      "word": "определям граница"
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      "sense": "to mark or fix the limits of",
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      "sense": "to mark or fix the limits of",
      "word": "rajata"
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      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "to mark or fix the limits of",
      "word": "derregar"
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      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "to mark or fix the limits of",
      "word": "estremar"
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      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "to mark or fix the limits of",
      "word": "demarcar"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to mark or fix the limits of",
      "word": "eingrenzen"
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      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "oriothetó",
      "sense": "to mark or fix the limits of",
      "word": "οριοθετώ"
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      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "orothetó",
      "sense": "to mark or fix the limits of",
      "word": "οροθετώ"
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      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "to mark or fix the limits of",
      "word": "teorannaigh"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to mark or fix the limits of",
      "word": "delimitare"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to mark or fix the limits of",
      "word": "demarcare"
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to mark or fix the limits of",
      "word": "fissare"
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      "code": "ckb",
      "lang": "Central Kurdish",
      "roman": "snur pêdan",
      "sense": "to mark or fix the limits of",
      "word": "سنور پێدان"
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to mark or fix the limits of",
      "word": "delimitar"
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "razgraníčivatʹ",
      "sense": "to mark or fix the limits of",
      "word": "разграни́чивать"
    },
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      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "razmežóvyvatʹ",
      "sense": "to mark or fix the limits of",
      "word": "размежёвывать"
    },
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to mark or fix the limits of",
      "word": "delimitar"
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "razdeljam",
      "sense": "to demarcate",
      "word": "разделям"
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    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "razgraničavam",
      "sense": "to demarcate",
      "word": "разграничавам"
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to demarcate",
      "word": "rajata"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to demarcate",
      "word": "deliminar"
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    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to demarcate",
      "word": "demarcar"
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to demarcate",
      "word": "delimitar"
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    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to demarcate",
      "word": "demarcar"
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  "word": "delimit"
}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-09-22 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-09-20 using wiktextract (af5c55c and 66545a6). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.