All 3 Uses of
inscribe
in
Nine Stories
- Now, for the third time since he had returned from the hospital that day, he opened the woman's book and read the brief inscription on the flyleaf.†
Story 6 *inscription = to write; or something written
- Then, with far more zeal than he had done anything in weeks, he picked up a pencil stub and wrote down under the inscription, in English, "Fathers and teachers, I ponder 'What is hell?†
Story 6
- He started to write Dostoevski's name under the inscription, but saw—with fright that ran through his whole body—that what he had written was almost entirely illegible.†
Story 6
Definitions:
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(1)
(inscribe) to write or mark -- often by engraving or etching onto a surface
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(2)
(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.