Imprison vs Circumscribe - What's the difference?
imprison | circumscribe | Related terms |
To draw a line around; to encircle.
To limit narrowly; to restrict.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
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, title= (geometry) To draw the smallest circle or higher-dimensional sphere that has (a polyhedron, polygon, etc.) in its interior.
As verbs the difference between imprison and circumscribe
is that imprison is to put in or as if in prison; confine while circumscribe is to draw a line around; to encircle.imprison
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Alternative forms
* emprisonSynonyms
* bang up * gaol, jail * lock up * put away * (British, colloquial) sent to the Tower “imprisoned” * See alsoDerived terms
* imprisoner * imprisonmentcircumscribe
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Verb
(circumscrib)Fantasy of navigation, passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; perhaps to moralise on the oneness or fragility of the planet, or to see humanity for the small and circumscribed thing that it is; […].}}