Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To form a circle or ring around; encircle.
- transitive verb To enclose; envelop.
- transitive verb To have as part of something larger; include: synonym: include.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To form a circle about; encircle.
- To environ; inclose; surround; shut in: as, the besieging army encompassed Jerusalem.
- To go or sail round: as, Drake encompassed the globe.
- To get into one's toils; get round; gain power over.
- To compass or bring about; accomplish.
- Synonyms To gird, invest, hem in, shut up.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To circumscribe or go round so as to surround closely; to encircle; to inclose; to environ
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To form a
circle around; toencircle . - verb transitive To
include within itsscope ; tocircumscribe or go round so as tosurround ; toenclose ; tocontain . - verb transitive To
include completely; todescribe fully orcomprehensively . - verb transitive To go around, especially, to
circumnavigate .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb include in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory
Etymologies
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Examples
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The "three weeks" of the title encompass both Max's expedition, in December 2000, and the experiences of another American, hunting lions in west-central Africa, in December 1899.
NYT > Home Page By BRUCE BARCOTT 2012
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Note that throughout this entry ˜science™ and cognate terms encompass only the natural sciences.
Naturalism in the Philosophy of Mathematics Paseau, Alexander 2008
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I would argue that although these labels encompass a wider array of political thought than party classifications, they are dangerous to critical thought.
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The title of this work is The Vain Man, and Daumier is at pains to show off this self-vaunting individual as nothing more nor less than what the limits of that title encompass.
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Their service calls encompass an area from Rockford to Clinton, Iowa and Monroe,
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Their titles encompass: Asian American Studies, Asia Studies, Martial Arts, Traditional Chinese
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"mind" or the German word "Geist," the Sanskrit and Tibetan Buddhist terms encompass a much larger scope of meaning than that of either the English or German renderings of them.
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"mind" or the German word "Geist," the Sanskrit and Tibetan Buddhist terms encompass a much larger scope of meaning than that of either the English or German renderings of them.
The Gelug-Kagyu Tradition of Mahamudra ��� 4 The Initial Level of Mahamudra Meditation 1997
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It -- you know, I've said it before, but the camera lens isn't -- isn't big enough to kind of encompass all the suffering and all the -- all the images that we're seeing.
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_Briton_, who esteems Merit in Rags, and contemns the Vicious, tho 'encompass'd with a Crowd of Servants, and distinguish'd by the glaring
A Voyage to Cacklogallinia With a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs and Manners of That Country Captain Samuel Brunt
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