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DELIMITATE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Set, mark, or draw the boundaries of something

Synonyms:

delimit; delimitate; demarcate

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "delimitate" is one way to...):

bound; confine; limit; restrict; throttle; trammel (place limits on (extent or amount or access))

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

delimitation (a line that indicates a boundary)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Determine the essential quality of

Synonyms:

define; delimit; delimitate; delineate; specify

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "delimitate" is one way to...):

be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "delimitate"):

determine (fix in scope; fix the boundaries of)

redefine (give a new or different definition to)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

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