inscribe : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: inscribe	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
inscribe v carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface; "engrave a pen"; "engraved the trophy cupt with the winner's"; "the lovers scratched their names into the bark of the tree" Synonym(s): scratch, engrave, grave, inscribe register formally as a participant or member; "The party recruited many new members" Synonym(s): enroll, inscribe, enter, enrol, recruit draw within a figure so as to touch in as many places as possible write, engrave, or print as a lasting record mark with one's signature; "The author autographed his book" Synonym(s): autograph, inscribe convert ordinary language into code; "We should encode the message for security reasons" Synonym(s): code, encipher, cipher, cypher, encrypt, inscribe, write in code address, (a work of literature) in a style less formal than a dedication
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Inscribe \Inscribe"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Inscribed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Inscribing}.] [L. inscribere. See 1st {In-}, and {Scribe}.] 1. To write or engrave; to mark down as something to be read; to imprint. Inscribe* a verse on this relenting stone. --Pope. 2. To mark with letters, charakters, or words. O let thy once lov'd friend inscribe thy stone. --Pope. 3. To assign or address to; to commend to by a shot address; to dedicate informally; as, to inscribe an ode to a friend. --Dryden. 4. To imprint deeply; to impress; to stamp; as, to inscribe a sentence on the memory. 5. (Geom.) To draw within so as to meet yet not cut the boundaries. Note: A line is inscribed in a circle, or in a sphere, when its two ends are in the circumference of the circle, or in the surface of the sphere. A triangle is inscribed in another triangle, when the three angles of the former are severally on the three sides of the latter. A circle is inscribed in a polygon, when it touches each side of the polygon. A sphere is inscribed in a polyhedron, when the sphere touches each boundary plane of the polyhedron. The latter figure in each case is circumscribed about the former.