| ASCRIBE | • ascribe v. (Transitive) To attribute a cause or characteristic to someone or something. • ascribe v. (Transitive) To attribute a book, painting or any work of art or literature to a writer or creator. • ascribe v. (Nonstandard, with to) To believe in or agree with; subscribe. |
| CIRCUMSCRIBE | • circumscribe v. To draw a line around; to encircle. • circumscribe v. To limit narrowly; to restrict. • circumscribe v. (Geometry) To draw the smallest circle or higher-dimensional sphere that has (A polyhedron, polygon… |
| CONSCRIBE | • conscribe v. (Obsolete) To enroll; to enlist. • CONSCRIBE v. to enroll; to enlist. |
| DESCRIBE | • describe v. (Transitive) To represent in words. • describe v. (Transitive) To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out. • describe v. (Transitive, mathematics) To give rise to a geometrical structure. |
| ESCRIBE | • escribe v. (Transitive, geometry) To draw outside of; used to designate a circle that touches one of the sides… • ESCRIBE v. to construct a circle touching a triangle externally. |
| INSCRIBE | • inscribe v. (Transitive) To write or cut (words) onto (something, especially a hard surface, or a book to be given… • inscribe v. (Geometry) To draw a circle, sphere, etc. inside a polygon, polyhedron, etc. and tangent to all its sides. • INSCRIBE v. to write or engrave as a lasting record. |
| INTERSCRIBE | • interscribe v. (Transitive) To write or draw between. • INTERSCRIBE v. (obsolete) to write between. |
| MISDESCRIBE | • misdescribe v. (Transitive) To incorrectly explain or detail something or someone. • MISDESCRIBE v. to describe wrongly. |
| MISTRANSCRIBE | • mistranscribe v. (Transitive) To transcribe incorrectly. • MISTRANSCRIBE v. to transcribe wrongly. |
| OVERPRESCRIBE | • overprescribe v. (Transitive) To prescribe (a drug) more frequently than appropriate. • OVERPRESCRIBE v. to prescribe excessively. |
| OVERSUBSCRIBE | • oversubscribe v. To subscribe to an extent that is greater than the availability. • oversubscribe v. (Programming) To use the oversubscription technique in multithreading. • oversubscribe v. (Networking) To use the oversubscription technique in a computer network. |
| PRESCRIBE | • prescribe v. (Medicine) To order (a drug or medical device) for use by a particular patient (under licensed authority). • prescribe v. To specify by writing as a required procedure or ritual; to lay down authoritatively as a guide, direction… • prescribe v. (Law) To develop or assert a right; to make a claim (by prescription). |
| PROSCRIBE | • proscribe v. (Transitive) To forbid or prohibit. • proscribe v. (Transitive) To denounce. • proscribe v. (Transitive) To banish or exclude. |
| REDESCRIBE | • redescribe v. (Transitive) To describe again. • REDESCRIBE v. to describe again. |
| REINSCRIBE | • reinscribe v. To inscribe again. |
| SCRIBE | • scribe n. Someone who writes; a draughtsperson; a writer for another; especially, an official or public writer;… • scribe n. (Informal) A journalist. • scribe n. (Archaic) A writer and doctor of the law; one skilled in the law and traditions; one who read and explained… |
| SUBSCRIBE | • subscribe v. (Ergative) To sign up to have copies of a publication, such as a newspaper or a magazine, delivered… • subscribe v. To pay for the provision of a service, such as Internet access or a cell phone plan. • subscribe v. To believe or agree with a theory or an idea (used with to). |
| SUPERSCRIBE | • superscribe v. (Transitive) to write on the exterior of, the surface of, or above. • superscribe v. (Transitive) to write (something) on the exterior of an object, such as a document or an envelope. • superscribe v. (Transitive) To address (An envelope etc.). |
| TRANSCRIBE | • transcribe v. To convert a representation of language, typically speech but also sign language, etc., to another representation… • transcribe v. (Dictation) To make such a conversion from live or recorded speech to text. • transcribe v. (Computing) To transfer data from one recording medium to another. |
| UNSUBSCRIBE | • unsubscribe v. (Intransitive) To cancel a subscription, especially to an online service. • unsubscribe n. An unsubscription. • UNSUBSCRIBE v. to terminate one's subscription. |