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What does inscribe mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word inscribe? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To write or cut words onto something, especially a hard surface; to engrave.
  2. (geometry) To draw a circle, sphere, etc. inside a polygon, polyhedron, etc. and tangent to all its sides.
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Mailer, disappointed to find that Buckley had apparently neglected to inscribe the book, promptly flipped through the index to see whether he had been mentioned.
When a selenographer plots the moon's seas, does he inscribe a memory that can batter as well as renew?
Manufacturers of phones should inscribe a warning on the handsets to make the users aware of hazards mobile phones can cause.
To write properly I would need to know which picture to draw and which sounds from the spoken word to inscribe next to it.
These were one liners written by groups of five poets who would each secretly inscribe a word on a slip of paper.
Mutilation was used throughout medieval and early-modern Europe to inscribe punishment publicly upon the body.

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