Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To limit; keep within bounds.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To bear or carry round.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete, transitive To
bear orcarry around.
Etymologies
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Examples
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They varied in size from tiny globular structures no bigger than his fist to giants four meters in circumfer-ence.
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Barckley's reference to Man falls within the circumfer - ence of the generalization by Guillaume de la Perrière in Les considérations des quatres mondes (1552): Or est en l'hõme (par la resolution de tous bons autheurs) le vray & merueilleux lien de deux Natures, spirituelles
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Recall for him/her that the formula for the circumfer - ence of a circle is C = d (times the diameter).
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Ac - Israel given in the Book of Num - connects with a superior circumfer - dares rouse him?
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Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed a simple process for mass producing molecular tubes of identical - and precisely programmable - circumfer ...
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Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed a simple process for mass producing molecular tubes of identical - and precisely programmable - circumfer ...
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Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed a simple process for mass producing molecular tubes of identical - and precisely programmable - circumfer ...
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Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed a simple process for mass producing molecular tubes of identical - and precisely programmable - circumfer ...
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When one wheel moves another in either of these ways, the velocities of their circumfer - ences are equal; and therefore their angular velo - cities, or the number of revolutions which they make in the same time, are inversely as their ra - dii.
Outlines of Natural Philosophy: Being Heads of Lectures Delivered in the University of Edinburgh
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On the north there is another ifland of an indiflferent height, and of a fomewhat larger circumfer - ence than the great high ifland laft-mentioned.
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