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Meanings of inscription in English

Portuguese
inscrição
Catalan
inscripció
Spanish
inscripción

Letters inscribed (especially words engraved or carved) on something.

        inscrição
        Catalan
        dedicatòria

        A short message (as in a book or musical work or on a photograph) dedicating it to someone or something.

              dedicatòria
              Russian
              лапидарное письмо
              Portuguese
              inscricao
              Spanish
              inscripcion
              Catalan
              inscripció

              Text inscribed on works or objects.

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                    лапидарное письмо
                    Usage of inscription in English
                    1
                    The inscription shown in Figure 6 will illustrate the difficulties quite well.
                    The History of Education / Educational Practice and Progress Con...
                    2
                    Sand had piled against the base, but the inscription was still clear:
                    Country driving: a journey through china from farm to factory
                    3
                    I found the following inscription upon an arch in the upper story:
                    Travels in Syria and the Holy Land
                    4
                    The grave was strewn with flowers, and the pedestal bears this inscription:
                    Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison: Fifteen Ye...
                    5
                    At the top of the arch was a flattering inscription in verse.
                    The Court of the Empress Josephine
                    6
                    I could see the large gas tower with its welcoming inscription 'Karlsruhe'.
                    Self's punishment
                    7
                    The inscription around the edge read: major victor hoffman 26 RTI-forcourage.
                    Coalition's End
                    8
                    On the lower part of it is this inscription in gold letters:
                    Travels in England During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, and Frag...
                    9
                    That's the 'bus-no ;thetarpaulin hangs down and obscures the inscription; yes.
                    The Open Air
                    10
                    It bears upon its face the following inscription cut in script letters:
                    Pulpit and Press (6th Edition)
                    11
                    Both bore the inscription: Switzerland is everything you said it would be.
                    The new yorker
                    12
                    Yet something about the words of the inscription seemed to goad him.
                    The Quiet Earth
                    13
                    The first word of the now-ancient inscription was still plainly visible: 'Erised'.
                    James Potter and the Curse of the Gatekeeper
                    14
                    This inscription was written in a wavering hand upon the blank page:
                    McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 2, January, 1896
                    15
                    A handsome monument on the banks of the Skenando bears the inscription
                    Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian ...
                    16
                    The compartment, illustrating the eternal trouble of the envious has this inscription:
                    Wanderings by Southern Waters, Eastern Aquitaine
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                    Inscription through the time
                    Inscription across language varieties
                    United Kingdom
                    Common
                    United States of America
                    Less common