Synonyms for delimited

Grammar : Verb

Spell : dih-lim-it

Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈlɪm ɪt

Définition of delimited

Origin : 1852, from French délimiter (18c.), from Latin delimitare "to mark out as a boundary," from de- (see de-) + limitare, from limitem, limes "boundary, limit" (see limit (n.)). Related: Delimited; delimiting.

verb set the limits

Example sentences :

This delimited area is little short of a million square miles.
Extract from : « American Forest Trees » by Henry H. Gibson

Any text supplied for the three missing notes themselves is also delimited by braces.
Extract from : « The Apostles » by Ernest Renan

In this passage Wordsworth has delimited his territory, has poetically yet plainly indicated his special province.
Extract from : « Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 4. Naturalism in England » by Georg Brandes

From the earliest art to Cézanne, objects have been portrayed as if conceived in vacuo, with absolute and delimited contours.
Extract from : « Modern Painting, Its Tendency and Meaning » by Willard Huntington Wright

They had measured Greatness; greatness which is not to be delimited by the wanton outrages of man or the accidents of time.
Extract from : « Holbein » by Beatrice Fortescue

Where British and French troops were operating together in a fighting zone, their respective responsibilities were delimited.
Extract from : « G. H. Q. » by Frank Fox

How local areas may, in a scientific way, be delimited and isolated for purposes of study will appear in a later chapter.
Extract from : « Essentials of Economic Theory » by John Bates Clark

I know of no way of so identifying it except by discovering that it is delimited in a time continuum.
Extract from : « Essays in Experimental Logic » by John Dewey

In this year Russia and England delimited their boundaries in the Pamirs.
Extract from : « The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) » by John Holland Rose

Antonyms for delimited

let go

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