INSCRIBE


Meaning of INSCRIBE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ɪnskraɪb ]

( inscribes, inscribing, inscribed)

1.

If you inscribe words on an object, you write or carve the words on the object.

Some galleries commemorate donors by inscribing their names on the walls...

...stone slabs inscribed with Buddhist texts.

VERB : V n on n , V-ed on/with n

2.

If you inscribe something in the front of a book or on a photograph, you write it there, often before giving it to someone.

On the back I had inscribed the words: ‘Here’s to Great Ideas! John’...

The book is inscribed: To John Arlott from Laurie Lee.

VERB : V n , V-ed quote

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