demarcate Definition
de·mar·cate (dē mär′kāt, di-, dē′mär kāt′)
transitive verb -·cated, -·cat·ing
- to set or mark the limits of; delimit
- to mark the difference between; distinguish; separate
Etymology: back-form. < demarcation
demarcate Synonyms
demarcate Usage Examples
Object
- boundary: The student will understand how to demarcate a transaction boundary to define a unit of work.
- border: These are spatial stories because they combine to suggest how regions and places are created and who demarcates borders and boundaries.
- territory: However, an economically unified demarcated territory is an essential condition for economic development.
- area: The squares were laid out with corner posts connected by highly visible line to demarcate the area.
- space: Most often ornamentation is used for demarcating the three-dimensional space we are living in from the two-dimensional space of a painting or a picture.
- region: Vinho Verde, Portugal's largest demarcated wine region, covers the entire northwestern corner of the country.
Subject
- line: The second sees a watershed as the river basin itself: the catchment area demarcated by a line of hills.
- letter: Ideas are developed in a sequence of sentences, sometimes demarcated by capital letters and full stops.
Preposition: by
- line: The second sees a watershed as the river basin itself: the catchment area demarcated by a line of hills.
- letter: Ideas are developed in a sequence of sentences, sometimes demarcated by capital letters and full stops.
Modifying Another Word
- sharply: The borders between man and machine, especially between mind and computer, are no longer so sharply demarcated.
- clearly: The excavation proved to be located at the edge of the burial ground with a clearly demarcated line of graves to the south.
- well: Findings There is a well demarcated, ovoid shaped, mass on the right side of the right fibula.
- legally: Areas of forest surviving the mining, logging and roads in the Amazon are those that have been legally demarcated as Indian territories.
- officially: In the past two decades there has been an attempt to give the indigenous some security by officially demarcating their traditional lands.
- precisely: More importantly, even where boundaries were demarcated precisely, the effectiveness of ducal authority on their ' Norman ' side varied considerably.
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