DELIMIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does delimit mean? 

• DELIMIT (verb)
  The verb DELIMIT has 3 senses:

1. determine the essential quality of

2. be opposite to; of angles and sides, in geometry

3. set, mark, or draw the boundaries of something

  Familiarity information: DELIMIT used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DELIMIT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they delimit    ... he / she / it delimits   
Past simple: delimited   
Past participle: delimited   
-ing form: delimiting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Determine the essential quality of

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

define; delimit; delimitate; delineate; specify

Hypernyms (to "delimit" 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 "delimit"):

determine (fix in scope; fix the boundaries of)

redefine (give a new or different definition to)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Be opposite to; of angles and sides, in geometry

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

delimit; subtend

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

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

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Set, mark, or draw the boundaries of something

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

delimit; delimitate; demarcate

Hypernyms (to "delimit" 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)

 Context examples 

Characterized or delimited reciprocally, in a mutual or shared manner.

(Mutually Defined, NCI Thesaurus)

A richly vascularized and innervated connective tissue of mesodermal origin contained in the central cavity of a tooth and delimited by the dentin.

(Dental Pulp, NCI Thesaurus)

Lysosomes are membrane-delimited organelles in animal cells serving as the cell's main digestive compartment to which all sorts of macromolecules are delivered for degradation.

(Lysosome Assembly Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

Within most types of eukaryotic CELL NUCLEUS, a distinct region, not delimited by a membrane, in which some species of rRNA (RNA, RIBOSOMAL) are synthesized and assembled into ribonucleoprotein subunits of ribosomes.

(Nucleolus, NCI Thesaurus)

The left ventricular volume calculated as the difference between the epicardium delimited volume and the left ventricular chamber volume.

(Left Ventricular Mass, NCI Thesaurus)

Membrane Fusion Activity involves merging of adjacent structures delimited by lipid bilayer membranes into a single structure.

(Membrane Fusion Activity, NCI Thesaurus)

A tab-delimited, spreadsheet-based format that can be used for annotating and communicating microarray data in a MIAME (Minimum Information About a Microarray Experiment) compliant fashion.

(MAGE-TAB, NCI Thesaurus)