All 3 Uses of
inscribe
in
The Adventures of Augie March
- In the kitchens were old men—flophouse, County Hospital, and mission attendance inscribed all over them big and bold, and there was nothing like the resentment of a fellow like Dawson in that striped shirt, who was close enough to Karas's condition to figure how he made profit, to hate and envy, and also to wish to be nifty at the track, to wear hound's-tooth checks, to have a case and binoculars and be seen with a proud-cheeked fine big broad.†
Chpt 13
- Going to Karnak to copy inscriptions.†
Chpt 21 *
- From college there were books; from music, piano, etcetera; from the theater inscribed photos, also a sewing machine of spidery cast-iron, circa 1910, which I connected with costumes; her pictures were on the walls—flowers, oranges, bedsteads, nudes in the bath.†
Chpt 23
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.