Meaning of "delimit" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF DELIMIT

delimit  [diːˈlɪmɪt]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DELIMIT

Delimit is a verb.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb delimit in English.

WHAT DOES DELIMIT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Delimiter

A delimiter is a sequence of one or more characters used to specify the boundary between separate, independent regions in plain text or other data streams. An example of a delimiter is the comma character, which acts as a field delimiter in a sequence of comma-separated values. Delimiters represent one of various means to specify boundaries in a data stream. Declarative notation, for example, is an alternate method that uses a length field at the start of a data stream to specify the number of characters that the data stream contains.

Definition of delimit in the English dictionary

The definition of delimit in the dictionary is to mark or prescribe the limits or boundaries of; demarcate.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO DELIMIT

PRESENT

Present

I delimit

you delimit

he/she/it delimits

we delimit

you delimit

they delimit

Present continuous

I am delimiting

you are delimiting

he/she/it is delimiting

we are delimiting

you are delimiting

they are delimiting

Present perfect

I have delimited

you have delimited

he/she/it has delimited

we have delimited

you have delimited

they have delimited

Present perfect continuous

I have been delimiting

you have been delimiting

he/she/it has been delimiting

we have been delimiting

you have been delimiting

they have been delimiting

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I delimited

you delimited

he/she/it delimited

we delimited

you delimited

they delimited

Past continuous

I was delimiting

you were delimiting

he/she/it was delimiting

we were delimiting

you were delimiting

they were delimiting

Past perfect

I had delimited

you had delimited

he/she/it had delimited

we had delimited

you had delimited

they had delimited

Past perfect continuous

I had been delimiting

you had been delimiting

he/she/it had been delimiting

we had been delimiting

you had been delimiting

they had been delimiting

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will delimit

you will delimit

he/she/it will delimit

we will delimit

you will delimit

they will delimit

Future continuous

I will be delimiting

you will be delimiting

he/she/it will be delimiting

we will be delimiting

you will be delimiting

they will be delimiting

Future perfect

I will have delimited

you will have delimited

he/she/it will have delimited

we will have delimited

you will have delimited

they will have delimited

Future perfect continuous

I will have been delimiting

you will have been delimiting

he/she/it will have been delimiting

we will have been delimiting

you will have been delimiting

they will have been delimiting

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would delimit

you would delimit

he/she/it would delimit

we would delimit

you would delimit

they would delimit

Conditional continuous

I would be delimiting

you would be delimiting

he/she/it would be delimiting

we would be delimiting

you would be delimiting

they would be delimiting

Conditional perfect

I would have delimit

you would have delimit

he/she/it would have delimit

we would have delimit

you would have delimit

they would have delimit

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been delimiting

you would have been delimiting

he/she/it would have been delimiting

we would have been delimiting

you would have been delimiting

they would have been delimiting

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you delimit
we let´s delimit
you delimit

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to delimit

Past participle

delimited

Present Participle

delimiting

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «DELIMIT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «delimit» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of delimit

bound · define · demarcate · determine · fix

TRANSLATION OF DELIMIT

Find out the translation of delimit to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of delimit from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «delimit» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 划定
• Translator English - Spanish: delimitar
• English: delimit
• Translator English - Hindi: परिसीमित
• Translator English - Arabic: ترسيم
• Translator English - Russian: разграничить
• Translator English - Portuguese: delimitar
• Translator English - Bengali: সীমানা নির্দেশ করা
• Translator English - French: délimiter
• Translator English - Malay: Delimit
• Translator English - German: begrenzen
• Translator English - Japanese: 区切る
• Translator English - Korean: 구분
• Translator English - Javanese: Delimit
• Translator English - Vietnamese: chia ra
• Translator English - Tamil: எல்லைப்படுத்துவதற்குத்
• Translator English - Marathi: मर्यादित करणे
• Translator English - Turkish: sınırlandırmak
• Translator English - Italian: delimitare
• Translator English - Polish: wytyczają
• Translator English - Ukrainian: розмежувати
• Translator English - Romanian: delimita
• Translator English - Greek: οριοθετούν
• Translator English - Afrikaans: baken
• Translator English - Swedish: avgränsa
• Translator English - Norwegian: avgrense

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DELIMIT»

Discover the use of delimit in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to delimit and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Statistics with STATA

#delimit ; use gulf.dta, clear ; graph twoway connected maxarea winter, yaxis(3) yscale(range(-300,220) axis(3)) ylabel(50(50)200, nogrid axis(3)) ytitle("Ice area, 1000 km^2", axis(3) placement(nw)) clpattern(dash) || line cil winter, yaxis(2) ...

Lawrence Hamilton, 2008

Cognitive Models of Speech Processing: Psycholinguistic and ...

Input Word Activation Word Activation Word Activation Input: deliver d dloc 0.105 damp 0.096 toob 0.014 e deliver 0.421 delimit 0.375 dish 0.039 1 deliver 0.336 delimit 0.321 dloc 0.008 i deliver 0.458 delimit 0.319 disk 0.061 V deliver 0.854 ...

Gerry T. M. Altmann, 1995

Supporting Collaboration in Mobile Environments

</value> The value tags delimit the value to test the condition with. <accept-set> .. . </accept-set> The accept-set tags delimit groups of edges that if all active, form acceptable inputs or outputs. An edge is considered active if at least one of its ...

Rohan Sen, 2008

Complete Your Dissertation Or Thesis in Two Semesters Or Less

It is just as important to delimit the study questions in a nonempiri- cal study. For example, take the general study question, "How are the psychological factors in Peal's life reflected in his writings?" Which psychological factors will be ...

Evelyn Hunt Ogden, 2007

The Positional Variation of Prepositional Phrases in ...

(3.63) C=2.94) DELIM: Adverbial Phrase (AP) in the postverbal position should delimit the temporal course of an event. DELIM(Non Inherent Argument) A postverbal adjunct AP [-delimit] is worse than preverbal- adjunct AP [-delimit] A ...

Jeeyoung Peck, 2008

Delimitation Equity Project Resource Guide

Appendix C presents information on the criteria employed by the boundary authority to delimit electoral districts: the criteria the boundary authority is obliged to take into account while delimiting electoral districts (for example, population ...

Lisa Handley

The Law of Higher Education

Table 2.1 Framework of highereducation legislation in Europe Primary legislation Define highereducation Define types of institution deliveringhigher education Permit creationofprivate institutions Delimit circumstances under which private ...

Dennis Farrington, David Palfreyman, 2012

Maritime Boundaries and Ocean Resources

(46) The phrase 'over almost its whole length', could be taken to indicate knowledge of the mer commune, and indeed, the French Agent held that it was possible that the competence of the Court to delimit the boundary could ' . . . be denied by ...

Gerald Henry Blake, 1987

Report of the Commission Appointed to Delimit the Boundary ...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.

Alberta And British Columbia Boundary Co, 2010

Delimitation Criticism: A New Tool in Biblical Scholarship

D suggest a close connection between both phrases which begin with ]li\ ®A has an apostrophe to delimit the end of the colon as is the case in e.g. l:5aB. 27There is no support of the Versiones concerning the distinctive accent No. 7 after ]S\.

Marjo Christina Annette Korpel, Josef M. Oesch, 2000

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DELIMIT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term delimit is used in the context of the following news items.

Colorado's free birth control experiment could change the world

... far too many, and the population of which all that free birth control would, paradoxically and down the road a few years, help delimit. Win-win! «SFGate, Jul 15»

Pornography and Digital Rights

Such legislation has tended both to delimit what can be published and to set (age-limited) conditions for who can access it. In this context, the ... «Open Democracy, Jul 15»

ARLENE VIOLET - Keep charter schools intact

Contracts delimit how late a teacher can arrive to teach and how soon he/she can bogie out of the place at the end of day. While no doubt many ... «Valley Breeze, Jul 15»

Denver Arborist Branches Out With Mobile Web Design

Earlier this year, Google, the behemoth search engine by contrast to all others, determined to delimit any non-mobile or non-responsive ... «IT Business Net, Jul 15»

Judge Rakoff, Newman And Illegal Tipping

And, the Circuit Court did not parse or even attempt to delimit Newman directly. Rather, the Court carefully discussed only Dirks in reaching its ... «JD Supra, Jul 15»

CNN Crowns Old City of Jerusalem as Top World Site on “Verge of …

... the holiest accessible prayer site for Jews, is identified by UNESCO only as “delimit[ing] the quarters of the different religious communities”. «Breaking Israel News, Jul 15»

Saluting Norman Washington Manley on his 122nd birthday

... clearly than his contemporaries the impending economic challenges of small nations, to pool resources and delimit their capacity in order to ... «Jamaica Observer, Jul 15»

“It's Time That Writing Took Something Back From the Internet”

I also thought it would delimit his answers. In the chat itself, he pretends as though it was his idea all along. Yet another evasion. But I got to ... «The New Republic, Jul 15»

Local polls: Petition against delimitations referred to CJ again

He said the government does not have the authority to delimit constituencies and had violated the Constitution. He asked the court to set aside ... «The Express Tribune, Jul 15»

Delimitation case referred to Chief Justice

He said the government has no power to delimit the constituencies but it violated the Constitution. He prayed to the court to set aside the ... «The Nation, Jul 15»