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delimit

/dih-lim-it/US // dɪˈlɪm ɪt //UK // (diːˈlɪmɪt) //

划定,界定,划定范围,划线

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to fix or mark the limits or boundaries of; demarcate: A ravine delimited the property on the north.

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Examples

  • Enslaver interests worked to sharply delimit the boundaries of federal authority over slavery and to secure assurances that slavery would remain under local rather than national regulation.

  • To date, only 11 percent of people to have ever reached the Kármán boundary delimiting the earthly from the ethereal have been women.

  • Accordingly commissioners were appointed on both sides to determine and delimit the boundary as drawn by the treaty of 1846.

  • Up to some point, difficult certainly to delimit, a man must be captain of his soul.

  • He does not try to define and delimit something remaining constant in change.

  • What goes by that name is no doubt somewhat elusive; one can not easily delimit and characterize it with scientific accuracy.

  • You are under a misapprehension in supposing that Mr. Chamberlain has undertaken to delimit the Afghan frontier.