What's the difference between circumscribe and scribe?

Circumscribe


Definition:

  • (v. t.) to write or engrave around.
  • (v. t.) To inclose within a certain limit; to hem in; to surround; to bound; to confine; to restrain.
  • (v. t.) To draw a line around so as to touch at certain points without cutting. See Inscribe, 5.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A quadripolar catheter was positioned either at the site of earliest ventricular activation during induced monomorphic ventricular tachycardia or at circumscribed areas of the left ventricle.
  • (2) The present series of five cases expands the spectra of both histological patterns and clinical presentations and suggests that the entity of sclerosing stromal tumours may not be as clearly circumscribed as has been previously reported.
  • (3) Congenital hypertrophy of the retinal pigment epithelium (CHRPE) is a well-circumscribed, flat, pigmented fundus lesion that is stable and generally nonprogressive.
  • (4) At that time, a network of fibrils containing the amino propeptide of type III procollagen was seen delineating well-circumscribed compartments of collagen fibrils throughout the entire tendon.
  • (5) This is a report of a circumscribed lymphangioma in a 22-year-old man after a severe direct trauma of the thigh.
  • (6) We report the effects of smaller circumscribed lesions of the habenula complex on a simple one-way active avoidance paradigm in three separate experiments in which the required operant was a step or jump onto an elevated platform.
  • (7) Data on the surgical treatment of acute cholecystitis complicated by localized circumscribed and ++non-circumscribed peritonitis are presented.
  • (8) Those circumscribed tumors lateral, superior, and inferior to the optic nerve may well be approached by a lateral orbitotomy using microdissecting techniques.
  • (9) In acute inflammation, circumscribed ulcers were often seen; along their margins the epithelial cells were swollen and isolated from the surrounding cells.
  • (10) The tumor, consisting of a circumscribed mass measuring 24 X 24 X 8 cm and weight 3.7 kg, originated from the right diaphragm and had no metastasis.
  • (11) It concerns three more or less circumscribed changes (differentiated carcinoma of the thyroid, autonomous adenoma and focal thyroiditis) and two diffuse thyroid conditions (sub-acute and lymphocytic diffuse thyroiditis, hyperthyroidism).
  • (12) Group II includes 10 patients with astigmatism due to circumscribed peripheral limbal corneal dystrophy.
  • (13) A well circumscribed area of necrotic bone was demonstrated in the weight bearing part of the caput giving evidence of a solitary infarction.
  • (14) In three patients painful reddening of a well-circumscribed area of the skin occurred within five days of starting anticoagulant treatment with phenprocoumon (Marcumar), and within a short time it developed into a full-blown picture of coumarin necrosis.
  • (15) A sharply circumscribed, vascular, connective tissue mass which replaced the cortex of several adjoining cerebral gyri is described.
  • (16) Colonic and skin temperatures were monitored continuously during each experiment in which a circumscribed site in the monkey's hypothalamus had been labelled by microinjection of 50-100 muCi serotonin (3H-5-HT) or 50-100 muCi or norepinephrine (3H-NE).
  • (17) A case of hemangiopericytoma in the male pelvis is presented in which computed tomography demonstrated a well-circumscribed, homogeneous enhancing mass with feeding vessels.
  • (18) Using cytochemical and electron microscopic techniques, it was shown that enucleated L929 fibroblasts retained a radiating pattern of microtubules as well as a large and circumscribed Golgi complex for at least one day.
  • (19) The authors report two cases of localized herpetic lymphadenitis, both showing well-circumscribed areas of necrosis containing cells with diagnostic intranuclear inclusions.
  • (20) Following creation of a unilateral circumscribed lesion in a portion of a cat substantia nigra pars reticulata by microinfusion of ibotenic acid, circling movements toward the contralateral side of the lesion appeared within 2 days and disappeared a few days later.

Scribe


Definition:

  • (n.) One who writes; a draughtsman; a writer for another; especially, an offical or public writer; an amanuensis or secretary; a notary; a copyist.
  • (n.) A writer and doctor of the law; one skilled in the law and traditions; one who read and explained the law to the people.
  • (v. t.) To write, engrave, or mark upon; to inscribe.
  • (v. t.) To cut (anything) in such a way as to fit closely to a somewhat irregular surface, as a baseboard to a floor which is out of level, a board to the curves of a molding, or the like; -- so called because the workman marks, or scribe, with the compasses the line that he afterwards cuts.
  • (v. t.) To score or mark with compasses or a scribing iron.
  • (v. i.) To make a mark.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The scribes wrote his words on their tablets of metal and light, to be saved for the ages.
  • (2) But the man whose calligraphy we ponder - a jobbing scribe, probably - was not the author.
  • (3) The resulting outline scribed from the orifices tended to be centered mesiodistally on the crown of each group and did not extend to the marginal ridges.
  • (4) A case of life threatening lead poisoning was diagnosed clinically in a Jewish scribe and verified by appropriate laboratory studies.
  • (5) He worked mainly as a scribe and copyist, drafting correspondence, copying letters written by others and researching a variety of issues.
  • (6) When I was translating his novel Broken Glass – a novel with no full stops, no sentences, in which a variety of characters relate their stories to a scribe in a downtown bar – I kept thinking of the African voices I heard around me in London.
  • (7) It's back to the battle between scribes and movable type.
  • (8) Following any assessment, results are literally shouted across the fence to a scribe who copies them on to a duplicate record sheet in conditions of safety.
  • (9) I would expect that an organisation so largely composed of journalists might more greatly value the contributions of fellow scribes.
  • (10) The special ink used by the scribe was found to contain lead in appreciable amounts.
  • (11) Eleven more asymptomatic subjects, both scribes and manufacturers of the ink, were studied and five were found to have subclinical lead overload.
  • (12) For scribes copied and recopied books in this city that loved leaning, creating a legacy of works transcribed in the 18th and 19th centuries as well as earlier.
  • (13) The scribes came to Him and they asked him for His words.
  • (14) Robert Newton Oldham • "Ignore the groans of vested interests" blusters David Cameron's ex-scribe Ian Birrell.
  • (15) So perhaps this is as good a moment as any to take my leave, and it doesn't make me feel any younger to find myself described in one gossip column as a "scribe" who is laying down his "quill".
  • (16) Takrit scribes in Cairo – through which the miles-long camel caravan of the king of the vast Mali Empire passed – said his wealth and generosity was unlike any they had seen.
  • (17) The length coincides approximately with the length of the 'writing tablet' (jotter) mentioned in 'Epidemics' VI 8.7 and with the ancient Greek standard unit of measure applied for the payment of scribes, namely 100 epic verses.
  • (18) Molecular sieve chromatography and sucrose density gradient ultracentrifugation demonstrated that the chemotactic factor was a relatively low molecular weight product (15,000-30,000) and as such different from previously scribed C' system-derived chemotactic factors.
  • (19) It’s not hard to see what inspired Viking scribes: the island has pockets filled with silences that feel intensely charged.
  • (20) The historian John Man puts the Gutenberg revolution like this : "Suddenly, in a historical eye-blink, scribes were redundant.