Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To mark out; delineate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To delineate.
- transitive verb obsolete To mark out.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To
delineate or mark out.
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Examples
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The issue is how far down the road do we wish to continue the negative deline in atmospheric quality before we act.
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There have been a variety of reasons posited for the nationwide deline in crime rates but the fact that the crime rate is lower than it was in the past seems to part of the general US trend but that decline is slower than that of most of the country, whatever the reason is.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Immigrants and Nazis, Communists and Cardinals 2010
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Typically, these big deepwater wells come on strongly, around 40,000 to 50,000 barrels per day, but deline very quickly as flow is carefully controlled to maintain productivity.
Robert L. Cavnar: BP Announces Success of Riser Tool -- But Remains Coy 2010
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There have been a variety of reasons posited for the nationwide deline in crime rates but the fact that the crime rate is lower than it was in the past seems to part of the general US trend but that decline is slower than that of most of the country, whatever the reason is.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Immigrants and Nazis, Communists and Cardinals 2010
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Typically, these big deepwater wells come on strongly, around 40,000 to 50,000 barrels per day, but deline very quickly as flow is carefully controlled to maintain productivity.
Robert L. Cavnar: BP Announces Success of Riser Tool -- But Remains Coy 2010
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The deline in scoring statically is from taking fewer shots: 3 less FG and about 1.5 less FT a game.
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M. O'BRIEN: M.deline, is it difficult, as you go through this battle, knocking on all these doors -- sometimes you just want to scream, you know?
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Joanna's 17th birthday party is tonight at 8: 30 P.M. FYI: I got her M.deline L'Engle's An Acceptable Time and these cubic zirconian earrings.
writerchic88 Diary Entry writerchic88 2003
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As for the all-important aether, Maxwell's equations deline - ated for it an inner structure that could not be en - visaged in credible Newtonian mechanical terms.
RELATIVITY BANESH HOFFMANN 1968
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The Canadian market was held back by a deline in oil prices, as crude fell $1.01 U.S. to $97.47 a barrel in New York.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed DAVID PARKINSON 2012
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