All 4 Uses of
inscribe
in
1984, by Orwell
- There, too, in tiny clear lettering, the same slogans were inscribed, and on the other face of the coin the head of Big Brother.
p. 27.1 *inscribed = written upon
- Statues, inscriptions, memorial stones, the names of streets — anything that might throw light upon the past had been systematically altered.†
p. 98.8
- But he lingered for some minutes more, talking to the old man, whose name, he discovered, was not Weeks-as one might have gathered from the inscription over the shop-front — but Charrington.
p. 99.5inscription = to write; or something written
- The inscription on the title-page ran: THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF OLIGARCHICAL COLLECTIVISM by Emmanuel Goldstein
p. 184.2
Definitions:
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(inscribe) to write or mark -- often by engraving or etching onto a surface
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
In mathematics, inscribe means to draw a geometric shape within another geometric shape so that each vertex (corner or angle) of the enclosed shape touches the outer figure. For example, a square is inscribed in a circle when each corner of the square touches the circle.