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词汇 circumscribing
释义 circumscribing
present participle ofcircumscribe
circumscribe
verb
uk /ˈsɜː.kəm.skraɪb/ us /ˈsɝː.kəm.skraɪb/
[ Toften passive ]formal
to limit something: 控制;限制;抑制
Their movements have been severely circumscribed since the laws came into effect.自从这些法律生效以来,他们的活动受到了严格约束。
There followed a series of tightly circumscribed visits to military installations.随之而来的是对参观军事设施的一系列严格限制。
[ T ] mathematics specialized
If you circumscribe a triangle, square, etc., you draw a circle that surrounds it and touches each of its corners.画(三角形、正方形等)的外接圆
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Limiting and restricting
anti-libertarian
armlock
boundary
box someone out
box someone/something in
crippling
cripplingly
crowd
curb
curtail
keep (herself) to herselfidiom
keep something down
limit
limitation
limitative
stunt
suffocatingly
tempered
tie someone down
tie someone up

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Enclosing, surrounding and immersing

Examples of circumscribing


circumscribing

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 for circumscribing the workers' ability to organize and sustain strikes across the industry as a whole.
Boundaries can be described either by the actual profiles of the objects, or by their circumscribing circles 0 rectangles 0polygons.
Even when circumscribing decentralisation in this way, there are many areas in which central governments can devolve power.
Applying the same principle used for the circumscribing spheres.
The tetrahedron, the octahedron and the cube may all be related to the diameter of the circumscribing sphere with lengths which are 'commensurable in square'.
It was undermined by ' impatient ' kingship and ' ferrets ' at court and the circumscribing of local autonomy by both prerogative and episcopal authority.
Dominant groups or powers thus restrict minorities by speaking both about and for them, circumscribing their rights or potential to define themselves.
She strongly suggests that "circumscribing the variable context" of the linguistic variable be both a starting point and ending point in variationist analysis.
In particular, the intergovernmental agreements of the 1990s certainly had a strong circumscribing impact.
Dominant disciplinary practices, by circumscribing our understanding of the way international politics is constituted, have denied international actors this capacity to think through the consequences of their actions.
The constitution provides the formal and legal framework for governance, but the informal and ' virtual ' discourse circumscribing political activity has blurred the lines of demarcation between government, front, and party.
Circumscribing these 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.
Globalization, so the argument goes, is increasingly circumscribing the autonomy of the modern state, leading to what some observers call 'neo-liberal convergence'.
Our discipline has spent relatively little time on the former route and has increasingly taken the second path, progressively circumscribing an increasingly specialized behavioral paradigm that rarely reflects real-world behaviors.
However, the framework will be an international legal instrument circumscribing the global spread of tobacco products.
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