inscribe

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• transitive verb To write, print, carve, or engrave (words or letters) on or in a surface.
• transitive verb To mark or engrave (a surface) with words or letters.
• transitive verb To enter (a name) on a list or in a register.
• transitive verb To sign one's name or write a brief message in or on (a gift book or photograph, for example).
• transitive verb To dedicate to someone.
• transitive verb Mathematics To draw (one figure) within another figure so that every vertex of the enclosed figure touches the outer figure.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To write or engrave; mark, as letters or signs, by writing or engraving; specifically, to display in writing on something durable or conspicuous: as, to inscribe a name on a roll, tablet, or monument.
• To write or engrave the name of, as on a list or tablet; enroll in writing: as, to be inscribed among the councilors.
• To mark with characters or words.
• To dedicate or commend (a book or other writing) by a short address less formal than a dedication.
• To imprint deeply; impress: as, to inscribe something on the memory.
• In geometry, to draw or delineate in or within, as chords or angles within a circle, or as a rectilinear figure within a curvilinear one.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb To write or engrave; to mark down as something to be read; to imprint.
• transitive verb To mark with letters, characters, or words.
• transitive verb To assign or address to; to commend to by a short address; to dedicate informally.
• transitive verb To imprint deeply; to impress; to stamp.
• transitive verb (Geom.) To draw within so as to meet yet not cut the boundaries.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb transitive To write or cut words onto something, especially a hard surface; to engrave.
• verb geometry To draw a circle, sphere, etc. inside a polygon, polyhedron, etc. and tangent to all its sides.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• 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
• verb draw within a figure so as to touch in as many places as possible
• verb carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface
• verb mark with one's signature
• verb register formally as a participant or member