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Defined

adjective

1.

Clearly characterized or delimited. "Each child has clearly defined duties"

2.

Showing clearly the outline or profile or boundary. Synonym: outlined. "The setting sun showed the outlined figure of a man standing on the hill"

Define

verb

(past & past part. defined; pres. part. defining)

1.

Determine the essential quality of. Synonyms: delimit, delimitate, delineate, specify.

2.

Give a definition for the meaning of a word.

3.

Determine the nature of.

4.

Show the form or outline of. Synonym: delineate. "The camera could define the smallest object"

5.

Decide upon or fix definitely. Synonyms: determine, fix, limit, set, specify. "Specify the parameters"

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"Defined" Quotes from Famous Books

... after the crop is visible the ground between should be delicately chopped over with the hoe to check the weeds that will then be rising. Immediately the rows are defined a first thinning should be made with a small hoe, care being taken to leave a good plant on the ground. The next thinning will produce young Onions for saladings, and this kind of thinning may be continued by removing ...

— The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots, 16th Edition • Sutton and Sons

... use or the benefit of the resolutions contained in the report. I call upon gentlemen to give me one single instance in which they can be of service. They are of no use to congress. The powers of that body are already defined, and those powers cannot be amended, confirmed or diminished by ten thousand resolutions. Is not that the guide and rule of this legislature. A multiplicity of laws is reprobated in any society, and tend but to confound and perplex. ...

— The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus • American Anti-Slavery Society

... clearly defined notion of what a live board was, Oliver was rather astounded by this intelligence, and was not quite certain whether he ought to laugh or cry. He had no time to think about the matter, however; for Mr. Bumble gave him a tap ...

— Oliver Twist • Charles Dickens

... reference to content, showed three large general types: (1) A single subject or group in the middle; (2) the same somewhat on one side, with subordinate elements occupying the rest of the space; (3) two objects or groups each occupying a well-defined center. These were designated as Single Center, Single and Subordinate Center, and Double Center pictures, or S.C., S. & S., and D.C. They are in proportions of S.C. 79 per cent., S. & S. 5 percent., D.C. 16 per cent. The D.C. type is evidently already explicitly ...

— Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 • Various

... social, and political conditions under which the new government was to be established? In 1789 the exterior boundaries of the country were loosely defined by treaty (sec. 46), but were not yet marked out, and there were several serious controversies. From the mouth of the St, Croix River to the head of the Connecticut the boundary was in confusion, and no progress had been made towards settling it. The water- line through the St. Lawrence ...

— Formation of the Union • Albert Bushnell Hart

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