"inscribe" meaning in English

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Verb

IPA: /ɪnˈskɹaɪb/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-inscribe.wav [Southern-England] Forms: inscribes [present, singular, third-person], inscribing [participle, present], inscribed [participle, past], inscribed [past]
Rhymes: -aɪb Etymology: Borrowed from Latin īnscrībō, from in- (“upon”) and scrībō (“to write”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*(s)kreybʰ-}}, {{bor|en|la|īnscrībō}} Latin īnscrībō, {{m|la|in-||upon}} in- (“upon”), {{m|la|scrībō||to write}} scrībō (“to write”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} inscribe (third-person singular simple present inscribes, present participle inscribing, simple past and past participle inscribed)
  1. (transitive) To write or cut (words) onto (something, especially a hard surface, or a book to be given to another person); to engrave. Tags: transitive Translations (to write or cut words onto something): надписвам (nadpisvam) (Bulgarian), inscriure (Catalan), kaivertaa (Finnish), graver (French), beschriften (German), επιγράφω (epigráfo) (Greek), 𐰋𐰃𐱅𐰃 (biti-) (Old Turkic), inscripționa (Romanian), înscrie (Romanian), grava (Romanian), начертать (načertatʹ) (Russian), inscribir (Spanish), yazmak (Turkish), kazımak (Turkish), kakmak (Turkish), llythrennu (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-inscribe-en-verb-bnlozYSP Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Old Turkic terms with non-redundant manual transliterations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 67 33 Disambiguation of Old Turkic terms with non-redundant manual transliterations: 76 24 Disambiguation of 'to write or cut words onto something': 90 10
  2. (geometry) To draw a circle, sphere, etc. inside a polygon, polyhedron, etc. and tangent to all its sides. Categories (topical): Geometry Translations (to draw a circle, sphere): вписвам (vpisvam) (Bulgarian), inscriure (Catalan), vepsat (Czech), εγγράφω (engráfo) (Greek), înscrie (Romanian), впи́сывать (vpísyvatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), вписа́ть (vpisátʹ) [perfective] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-inscribe-en-verb-U-hTdJAj Topics: geometry, mathematics, sciences Disambiguation of 'to draw a circle, sphere': 7 93
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: enwrite, inwrite Related terms: inscription, circumscribe

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