All 10 Uses
perimeter
in
Tangerine, by Edward Bloor
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- When they can't do that, they run up and down the dirt road behind our wall, the perimeter road.†
p. 41.1 *perimeter = the outer edge
- For a while I could hear them racing up and down the perimeter road in the mud, then they were gone.†
p. 56.1
- It was the sound of Arthur and Erik accelerating, braking, and sliding through the mud on the perimeter road.†
p. 112.5
- Arthur and Erik had quit their mud running and driven around from the perimeter road to our driveway.†
p. 113.1
- And he vaulted down into the mud of the perimeter road.†
p. 116.7
- We ran down the inside perimeter of the field.†
p. 190.1
- Then, like in a rerun of a bad dream, I heard the sound of Arthur's Land Cruiser racing up the perimeter road.†
p. 204.3
- I was too close to make out what it said, so I started to back across the frozen mud ruts of the perimeter road.†
p. 236.2
- The wind raised up brown clouds of dirt from the perimeter road and mixed them with the black clouds of the muck fire.†
p. 236.5
- I veered off onto the perimeter road and stumbled along over the packed dirt until I found myself at the wall behind our house.†
p. 260.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(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
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)