Inscribed vs Circumscribed - What's the difference?
inscribed | circumscribed |
(inscribe)
To write or cut words onto something, especially a hard surface; to engrave.
(geometry) To draw a circle, sphere, etc. inside a polygon, polyhedron, etc. and tangent to all its sides.
(circumscribe)
To draw a line around; to encircle.
To limit narrowly; to restrict.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
, volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, 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 inscribed and circumscribed
is that inscribed is past tense of inscribe while circumscribed is past tense of circumscribe.inscribed
English
Verb
(head)inscribe
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(en-verb)Synonyms
* (l), (l)circumscribed
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(head)circumscribe
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(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; […].}}