ascribe | (verb) attribute or credit to | Synonyms: assign, attribute, impute |
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beriberi | (noun) avitaminosis caused by lack of thiamine (vitamin B1) | - |
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bribe | (noun) payment made to a person in a position of trust to corrupt his judgment | Synonyms: payoff |
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(verb) make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence | Synonyms: buy, corrupt, grease one's palms |
briber | (noun) someone who pays (or otherwise incites) you to commit a wrongful act | Synonyms: suborner |
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bribery | (noun) the practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage | Synonyms: graft |
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caribe | (noun) small voraciously carnivorous freshwater fishes of South America that attack and destroy living animals | Synonyms: pirana, piranha |
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circumscribe | (verb) restrict or confine within limits | Synonyms: confine to, limit |
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(verb) draw a line around | - |
(verb) to draw a geometric figure around another figure so that the two are in contact but do not intersect | - |
circumscribed | (adjective) subject to limits or subjected to limits | Synonyms: limited |
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describe | (verb) identify as in botany or biology, for example | Synonyms: discover, distinguish, identify, key, key out, name |
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(verb) give a description of | Synonyms: depict, draw |
(verb) to give an account or representation of in words | Synonyms: account, report |
(verb) make a mark or lines on a surface | Synonyms: delineate, draw, line, trace |
described | (adjective) represented in words especially with sharpness and detail | - |
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diatribe | (noun) thunderous verbal attack | Synonyms: fulmination |
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inscribe | (verb) mark with one's signature | Synonyms: autograph |
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(verb) address, (a work of literature) in a style less formal than a dedication | - |
(verb) write, engrave, or print as a lasting record | - |
(verb) convert ordinary language into code | Synonyms: cipher, code, cypher, encipher, encrypt, write in code |
(verb) carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface | Synonyms: engrave, grave, scratch |
(verb) draw within a figure so as to touch in as many places as possible | - |
(verb) register formally as a participant or member | Synonyms: enrol, enroll, enter, raise, recruit |
inscribed | (adjective) cut or impressed into a surface | Synonyms: engraved, etched, graven, incised |
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(adjective) written (by handwriting, printing, engraving, or carving) on or in a surface | - |
oversubscribed | (adjective) sold in excess of available supply especially season tickets | - |
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prescribe | (verb) issue commands or orders for | Synonyms: dictate, order |
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(verb) (medicine) order the use of (a treatment, medicine, etc.), usually by written prescription | - |
(verb) recommend as beneficial | - |
prescribed | (adjective) formally laid down or imposed | Synonyms: positive |
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(adjective) set down as a rule or guide | - |
(adjective) conforming to set usage, procedure, or discipline | Synonyms: official |
(adjective) fixed or established especially by order or command | Synonyms: appointed, decreed, ordained |
proscribe | (verb) command against | Synonyms: disallow, forbid, interdict, nix, prohibit, veto |
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proscribed | (adjective) excluded from use or mention | Synonyms: forbidden, out, prohibited, taboo, tabu, verboten |
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scribe | (noun) a sharp-pointed awl for marking wood or metal to be cut | Synonyms: scratch awl, scriber |
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(noun) informal terms for journalists | Synonyms: penman, scribbler |
(noun) someone employed to make written copies of documents and manuscripts | Synonyms: copyist, scrivener |
(verb) score a line on with a pointed instrument, as in metalworking | - |
scriber | (noun) a sharp-pointed awl for marking wood or metal to be cut | Synonyms: scratch awl, scribe |
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subscribe | (verb) mark with one's signature; write one's name (on) | Synonyms: sign |
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(verb) adopt as a belief | Synonyms: support |
(verb) receive or obtain regularly | Synonyms: subscribe to, take |
(verb) offer to buy, as of stocks and shares | - |
(verb) pay (an amount of money) as a contribution to a charity or service, especially at regular intervals | Synonyms: pledge |
subscribed | (adjective) (of a contract or will or other document) having a signature written at the end | - |
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subscriber | (noun) someone who contributes (or promises to contribute) a sum of money | Synonyms: contributor |
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(noun) someone who contracts to receive and pay for a service or a certain number of issues of a publication | Synonyms: reader |
(noun) someone who expresses strong approval | Synonyms: endorser, indorser, ratifier |
superscribe | (verb) write on the outside or upper part of | - |
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(verb) write on the top or outside | - |
transcribe | (verb) convert the genetic information in (a strand of DNA) into a strand of RNA, especially messenger RNA | - |
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(verb) rewrite in a different script | Synonyms: transliterate |
(verb) write out from speech, notes, etc. | - |
(verb) make a phonetic transcription of | - |
(verb) rewrite or arrange a piece of music for an instrument or medium other than that originally intended | - |
transcribed | (adjective) recorded for broadcast | Synonyms: canned |
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transcriber | (noun) someone who makes a written version of spoken material | - |
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(noun) someone who represents the sounds of speech in phonetic notation | - |
(noun) a musician who adapts a composition for particular voices or instruments or for another style of performance | Synonyms: adapter, arranger |
(noun) a person who translates written messages from one language to another | Synonyms: translator |
(noun) someone who rewrites in a different script | - |
tribe | (noun) a social division of (usually preliterate) people | Synonyms: folk |
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(noun) a federation (as of American Indians) | Synonyms: federation of tribes |
(noun) group of people related by blood or marriage | Synonyms: clan, kin, kin group, kindred, kinship group |
(noun) (biology) a taxonomic category between a genus and a subfamily | - |
tribesman | (noun) someone who lives in a tribe | - |
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