All 14 Uses of
perimeter
in
The Things They Carried
- Slowly, a bit distracted, he would get up and move among his men, checking the perimeter, then at full dark he would return to his hole and watch the night and wonder if Martha was a virgin.†
Chpt 1
- He dug his foxholes on the far side of the perimeter; he kept his back covered; he avoided situations that might put the two of them alone together.†
Chpt 5
- Afterward, he crossed the perimeter to Lee Strunk's foxhole.†
Chpt 5
- They had their own hootch at the edge of the perimeter, fortified with sandbags and a metal fence, and except for the bare essentials they avoided contact with the medical detachment.†
Chpt 9
- On the first night they set up house in one of the bunkers along the perimeter, near the Special Forces hootch, and over the next two weeks they stuck together like a pair of high school steadies.†
Chpt 9
- Often, especially during the hot afternoons, she would spend time with the ARVNs out along the perimeter, picking up little phrases of Vietnamese, learning how to cook rice over a can of Sterno, how to eat with her hands.†
Chpt 9
- They tried the helipad first, then the mess hall and supply hootches, then they walked the entire six hundred meters of perimeter.†
Chpt 9
- At first, Rat said, Mary Anne seemed to accept it, but then after a day or two she fell into a restless gloom, sitting off by herself at the edge of the perimeter.†
Chpt 9
- So they set up a perimeter, ate chow, then crawled under their ponchos and tried to settle in for the night.†
Chpt 15
- Along the perimeter there were quick bursts of gunfire.†
Chpt 15
- But it was a war, and he had his orders, so they'd set up a perimeter and crawled under their ponchos and tried to settle in for the night.†
Chpt 17
- Some went off to write letters or party or sleep; the others trooped down to the base perimeter, where, for the next eleven hours, they would pull night guard duty.†
Chpt 20
- Bunker Six, a pile of sandbags at the southwest corner of the perimeter.
Chpt 20 *perimeter = the outer edge of a defended area
- …and so Lemon put on a ghost mask and painted up his body all different colors and crept across a paddy to a sleeping village-almost stark naked, the story went, just boots and balls and an M-16-and in the dark Lemon went from hootch to hootch-ringing doorbells, he called it-and a few hours later, when he slipped back into the perimeter, he had a whole sackful of goodies to share with his pals: candles and joss sticks and a pair of black pajamas and statuettes of the smiling Buddha.†
Chpt 22
Definition:
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(perimeter) the outer edgeThe exact meaning of perimeter can depend upon its context. For example:
- "Stay inside the defensive perimeter." -- the outer edges of the area that is defended
- "It is common on the city's perimeter." -- the outer edges of the city
- "What is the perimeter of the square?" -- the sum of the length of the sides of a geometric shape