Inscribe

Definition: Inscribe

Inscribe

Verb

1. Write upon; engrave a pen, for example.

2. Register formally; as a participant or member.

3. Draw within a figure so as to touch in as many places as possible.

4. Write, engrave, or print as a lasting record.

5. Mark with one's signature; "The author autographed his book".

6. Convert ordinary language into code; "We should encode the message for security reasons".

7. Address, as a work of literature, in a style less formal than a dedication.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "inscribe" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Note: Inscribe \In*scribe"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Inscribed; present participle verb or noun Inscribing.]. (references)

Synonyms: Inscribe

Repute

Consecrate; dedicate to, devote to; enshrine, inscribe, blazon, lionize, blow the trumpet, crown with laurel.

Writing

Compose, indite, draw up, draft, formulate; dictate; inscribe, throw on paper, dash off; manifold.

Crosswords: Inscribe

Books

• Footnotes: Six Choreographers Inscribe the Page (Critical Voices in Art, Theory, and Culture) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Inscribe (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

What then is the over-all strategic concept which we should inscribe today? It is nothing less than the safety and welfare, the freedom and progress, of all the homes and families of all the men and women in all the lands. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Trade

Brazil

The United States Senate Concurrent Resolution nº 40 adopted July 30, 1953, invited U.S. exporters to inscribe, on external shipping containers in indelible print of a suitable size. (references)

Colombia

The new provisions formally started on August 11, 1999, per Resolution 18699 (enacted June 4, 1999). The Resolution requires that the manufacturers and importers of products regulated by official mandatory technical standards and technical regulations inscribe themselves in SIC's Mandatory Registry by providing the organization's contact information and the products requiring compliance with a specific mandatory technical standard or regulation. (references)

Expression using "inscribe": inscribe to smb.'s memory. Additional references.

Albanian

skalit (carve, chase, engrave, incise, sculp, sculpt, sculpture), skalis (carve, chase, engrave, incise, sculp, sculpt, sculpture), mbishkruaj, kushtoj (consecrate, cost, dedicate, devote, pay), gdhend (adz, adze, carve, chase, chisel, die, enchase, engrave, gouge, incise, intaglio, Nick, polish, rasp, refine, sculp, sculpt, sculpture, shape, shave), brendashkruaj. (various references)

Arabic 

‏كتب (compile, compose, draft, draw up, enter, note down, pen, prescribe, publication, record, register, write, write down), ‏كرس إهداء, ‏هدى (deaden, give away, guide, present, right path, right way, true religion), ‏نقش (carve, carving, chasing, chisel, chiselling, engrave, engraving, headpiece, incise, incision, inscription, lettering, picture), ‏حفر (bore, burrow, burrowing, dig, digging, digging in, ditch, drill, drilling, etch, excavate, excavation, fetch, fossilize, gnaw, grave, hew, make a hole in, pick up, pit, plough, rut, scrape, sink), ‏طبع (etching, grain, habit, impression, instill, instillation, lithograph, mood, nature, normalize, print, printing, publishing, redaction, run, stamp, temper, temperament). (various references)

Bulgarian 

регистрирам (book, calendar, enter, file, list, log, record, register), врязвам (incise, inlay, intaglio, notch), вписвам (docket, enter, register), надписвам (letter, overcharge, salt, superscribe), посвещавам (consecrate, dedicate, devote, give, initiate, vow), пиша (pen, record, sling ink, writ, write, write down). (various references)

Chinese 

题字 (INSCRIPTION), 刻寫 . (various references)

Czech

vytesat (carve), vepsat (fill in), oznaèit (denote, describe, designate, highlight, indicate, label, Mark, prick, sign, signify, stigmatize, term), napsat (author, chalk up, compose, do, endorse, report, set down, write, write down). (various references)

Farsi 

نقش کردن (Depict, Engrave, Grave), نوشتن (Character, Pen, Write), حکاکی کردن (Engrave, Scribe), حجاری کردن روی سطوح وستونها, ثبت کردن (Docket, Note, Put, Record, Register, Score, Scroll). (various references)

Finnish

kaivertaa (engrave). (various references)

French

inscrivons, inscrivez, inscrivent, inscrire (send in, write in), imprimer, graver (incise), dédier, dédicacer, écrire. (various references)

German

beschriften (address, give a caption to, label, labeled, superscribe, write on). (various references)

Greek 

επιγράφω (label, superscribe). (various references)

Hebrew 

לחרות (carve, chase, chisel, engrave, imprint, incise, print), להקדיש (consecrate, sanctify), לרשום (note, record, register, write down). (various references)

Hungarian

ráír (to superscribe), bevés (to engrain, to engrave, to grave, to ingrain), bejegyez (to enrol, to enroll). (various references)

Indonesian

menuliskan (transcribe). (various references)

Italian

iscrivere (engrave, enrol, enroll, enter, record, register), incidere (engrave), scrivere (write), scolpire (carve, engrave, grave, sculpt, sculpture), dedicare (addict, consecrate, dedicate, devote, name after, put in, spend). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

史に名を留める (to inscribe one's name in history). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しになをとどめる (to inscribe one's name in history). (various references)

Manx

screeu (document, pen, scribe, write), grainnaghey (carve, carving, chase, engrave, grave, graving, incise, inlay, sculpture, tool). (various references)

Norwegian

skrive inn (enrol), dedisere. (various references)

Pig Latin

inscribeay.(various references)

Portuguese

insculpir, inscrever (register), impressionar (impress), registrar (register), gravar (engrave), endereçar (address), alistar (enlist, enrol, enroll, list, recruit, register). (various references)

Romanian

scrie (compose, write), sãpa (burrow, cave, cut, delve, dig, drive, engraft, engrave, excavate, grave, hoe, hole, hollow, lift, mine, pick, sink, spud, trench, undermine), grava (engrave), dedica (consecrate, dedicate, devote, devote into, sanctify), înscrie (affiliate, book, drop, engrave, enregister, enter, insert, matriculate, record, register, write), închina (dedicate to, raise, subdue, subjugate, submit, yield). (various references)

Russian 

вписывать фигуру, вписывать (interline), надписывать (superscribe), записывать (put down, write down). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zapisati (get down, note, note down, pencil, record, scroll, write down), urezati (carve, engrave, imprint, intaglio, nick), upisati (admit, bind, check in, chronicle, enroll, register, subscribe, write in), uneti (bring in, carry in, draw in, enter, fill in, import, introduce, take in), ucrtati (draw in), posvetiti (canonize, commit, consecrate, dedicate, hallow, sanctify), napisati (indite, make out, pencil, put together, write, write out, write up). (various references)

Spanish

inscribir (enter, record, register), pintar a, escribir de, dedicar (dedicate). (various references)

Swedish

inskriva (enroll, enter), inrista (engrave). (various references)

Thai

สลัก (engrave, spline), ลงรายการ (itemize, list). (various references)

Turkish

içine çizmek (line in), yazmak (write), kazımak (delete, erase, grave, incise, rub, rub out, scrape, scratch, scratch along, scratch out, stamp, strip), kaydetmek (book, calendar, check in, Chronicle, enlist, enrol, enroll, enter, have smth. taped, list, record, register, set down, tape, tape record, transcribe, write down), atfetmek (accredit). (various references)

Ukrainian

уписувати, надписувати (character, dedicate, superscribe), присвячувати (addict, bestow, consecrate, dedicate, devote, vow). (various references)

incidam, incidamque, incidas, incidat, incidebant, incidemus, incident, incidentes, incidere, incideremus, inciderent, inciderit, inciderunt, incidet, incidetis, incidi, incidissemus, incidisti, incidit, inciditque, incidunt, incisus, inscribo, inscripta, inscriptus, nota, notarent, notas, notate, noto. (various references)

ascrivre. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "inscribe": inscribed, inscriber, inscribers, inscribes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Inscribe" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: enscribe, inscibe, Inscr, Inscru, introibo. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: brinies, irenics, sericin.

-2 letters: brines, ibices, incise, irenic, ricins, scribe.

-3 letters: bices, biers, bines, birse, brens, bries, brine, brins, cines, cires, cribs, cries, icier, nicer, nisei, reins, resin, ribes, rices, ricin, rinse, risen, serin, since, siren.

-4 letters: bens, bice, bier, bine, bins, bise, bren, brie, brin, bris, cine, cire, crib, cris, erns, ibis, ices.

+1 letter: inscribed, inscriber, inscribes.

+2 letters: describing, inscribers, vibrancies.

+3 letters: besmirching, brilliances, cabinetries, carabiniers, discernible, discernibly, prescribing.

+4 letters: bacteriocins, brecciations, brilliancies, bronchitises, chemisorbing, chinaberries, fibronectins, obstetrician, redescribing.

+5 letters: beneficiaries, bicentenaries, bioconversion, bioenergetics, biometricians, childbearings, cyberneticist, discriminable, incorrigibles, indescribable, indescribably, indiscernible, irascibleness, microbrewings, misdescribing, mistranscribe, obstetricians, republicanism, rubicundities, superscribing.