escribe

English

Etymology

From Latin e (“out, out of”) + scribere (“to write”).

Pronunciation

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Verb

escribe (third-person singular simple present escribes, present participle escribing, simple past and past participle escribed)

1. (transitive, geometry) To draw outside of; designating a circle that touches one of the sides of a given triangle, and also the other two sides produced.

   Antonym: inscribe

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “escribe”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Translations

To draw outside of

• Bulgarian: описвам (bg) (opisvam)
• Russian: опи́сывать (ru) impf (opísyvatʹ), описа́ть (ru) pf (opisátʹ)

Anagrams

• Bierces, becries

Asturian

Verb

escribe

1. third-person singular present indicative of escribir

Galician

Verb

escribe

1. inflection of escribir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Spanish

Verb

escribe

1. inflection of escribir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative