Inscribe vs. Incise — What's the Difference?

To write, print, carve, or engrave (words or letters) on or in a surface.

Mark or decorate (an object or surface) with a cut or cuts

To mark or engrave (a surface) with words or letters.

To cut into, as with a sharp instrument

To enter (a name) on a list or in a register.

To engrave (designs or writing, for example) into a surface; carve.

To sign one's name or write a brief message in or on (a gift book or photograph, for example).

To engrave designs, writing, or other marks into.

To dedicate to someone.

(transitive) To cut in or into with a sharp instrument; to carve; to engrave.

(Mathematics) To draw (one figure) within another figure so that every vertex of the enclosed figure touches the outer figure.

To cut in or into with a sharp instrument; to carve; to engrave.

(transitive) To write or cut (words) onto (something, especially a hard surface, or a book to be given to another person); to engrave.

To cut, gash, or wound with a sharp instrument; to cut off.

(geometry) To draw a circle, sphere, etc. inside a polygon, polyhedron, etc. and tangent to all its sides.

Make an incision into by carving or cutting

To write or engrave; to mark down as something to be read; to imprint.

To mark with letters, characters, or words.

To assign or address to; to commend to by a short address; to dedicate informally; as, to inscribe an ode to a friend.

To imprint deeply; to impress; to stamp; as, to inscribe a sentence on the memory.

To draw within so as to meet yet not cut the boundaries.

Carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface;

Register formally as a participant or member;

Draw within a figure so as to touch in as many places as possible

Write, engrave, or print as a lasting record

Mark with one's signature;

Convert ordinary language into code;

Address, as a work of literature, in a style less formal than a dedication