demarcate
to determine or mark off the boundaries or limits of: to demarcate a piece of property.
to separate distinctly: to demarcate the lots with fences.
Origin of demarcate
1Other words from demarcate
- de·mar·ca·tor, noun
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How to use demarcate in a sentence
For millennia, humans have been “up with the chickens,” demarcating time by the rooster’s crow.
They’re helpfully demarcated on the eastern side of the freeway.
Moving a cursor inside the narrowly demarcated blast radius one comes across dots or particles that can be clicked on.
‘Genesis Noir’: A stunning game about love, murder, joy and the Big Bang | Christopher Byrd | April 12, 2021 | Washington PostSam’s room was the living room and had a hanging sheet demarcating it.
The discovery of the genome a century after Darwin published On the Origin of Species seemed to demarcate an upper limit.
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We used Flor Fedora carpet tiles to demarcate the display areas, in place of heavy platforms.
Out at Hillside the stones that demarcate the territory of an old-fashioned house are new and snowily whitewashed.
Pipefuls | Christopher MorleyGeneral Liu and I proposed to demarcate south of the Taiping.
A Civil Servant in Burma | Herbert Thirkel White
British Dictionary definitions for demarcate
/ (ˈdiːmɑːˌkeɪt) /
to mark, fix, or draw the boundaries, limits, etc, of
to separate or distinguish between (areas with unclear boundaries)
Derived forms of demarcate
- demarcator, noun
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