defined

[ UK /dɪfˈa‍ɪnd/ ]
[ US /dɪˈfaɪnd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. clearly characterized or delimited
    each child has clearly defined duties
    lost in a maze of words both defined and undefined
  2. showing clearly the outline or profile or boundary
    hills defined against the evening sky
    the setting sun showed the outlined figure of a man standing on the hill

How To Use defined In A Sentence

  • The geoid is defined as a gravitational equipotential surface that coincides with mean sea level.
  • · “Adult family member” is defined as “a person over 21 years of age who is the parent, grandparent, step-parent living in the household, or legal guardian” of the pregnant teen. Archive 2009-07-01
  • Organic carbon mineralization was studied in a large humic lake in northern Sweden during a well-defined summer stratification period following high water flow during snowmelt.
  • Too much is made of work defined as a job, anyway. Love, Medicine and Miracles
  • This kind of discourse is at the opposite pole from storytelling as defined by Benjamin.
  • Success was to be defined as the exfiltration of Bin Ladin out of Afghanistan.28 A meeting of principals was scheduled for May 29 to decide whether the operation should go ahead. Think Progress » Report: Saddam and Al Qaeda Enemies, Not Collaborators
  • The government also has a fairly loose definition of what constitutes a first-time homebuyer, which is defined as someone who has no "present interest" in a main home during a two-year period prior to the date of acquisition of the new home. Five Penalty-Free IRA Withdrawals
  • Flat lawns are formed into an abstract pattern that recalls tectonic fractures and fissures in the earth's surface, their edges defined by dark grey concrete retaining walls.
  • Furniture shapes became more angular, with edges defined by simple piping. Collins Complete Books of Soft Furnishings
  • The relative clause: it is defined as a clausal modifier, restrictive or non-restrictive, used to modify a preceding construction, most often a preceding noun or noun phrase.
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