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Definición y significado de confines
confines
- plural of confine (noun)
- present indicative (he,she,it) of confine (verb)
Definición
confines (n.)
1.a bounded scope"he stayed within the confines of the city"
confine (v. trans.)
1.place limits on (extent or access)"restrict the use of this parking lot" "limit the time you can spend with your friends"
2.restrict or confine"I limit you to two visits to the pub a day"
3.to close within bounds, limit or hold back from movement"This holds the local until the express passengers change trains" "About a dozen animals were held inside the stockade" "The illegal immigrants were held at a detention center" "The terrorists held the journalists for ransom"
4.prevent from leaving or from being removed
5.deprive of freedom; take into confinement
6.close in"darkness enclosed him"
confine (v.)
1.put into long-term storage
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Merriam Webster
ConfineCon*fine" (kŏn*fīn"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Confined (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Confining.] [F. confiner to border upon, LL. confinare to set bounds to; con- + finis boundary, end. See Final, Finish.] To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close.
Now let not nature's hand
Keep the wild flood confined! let order die! Shak.
He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of rhyme. Dryden.
To be confined, to be in childbed.
Syn. -- To bound; limit; restrain; imprison; immure; inclose; circumscribe; restrict.
ConfineCon"fine (? or �); 277), v. i. To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; -- followed by on or with. [Obs.]
Where your gloomy bounds
Confine with heaven. Milton.
Bewixt heaven and earth and skies there stands a place.
Confining on all three. Dryden.
ConfineCon"fine (?), n.
1. Common boundary; border; limit; -- used chiefly in the plural.
Events that came to pass within the confines of Judea. Locke.
And now in little space
The confines met of empyrean heaven,
And of this world. Milton.
On the confines of the city and the Temple. Macaulay.
2. Apartment; place of restraint; prison. [Obs.]
Confines, wards, and dungeons. Shak.
The extravagant and erring spirit hies
To his confine. Shak.
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Sinónimos
confine (v.)
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Ver también
confine (v. trans.)
↘ at the hands of, circumscription, constraint, curtailment, limitation, limitative, limiting, restraint, restriction, restrictive, trammels ≠ deliver, free, liberate, loose, release, set at liberty, turn loose, unloose, unloosen, walk
confine (v.)
Frases
Diccionario analógico
confines (n.)
confine (v.)
faire une limite dans l'espace (fr)[Classe]
stockpile; store; lay up; stock; lay in stock; stock up[Classe]
store[Hyper.]
confine (v. tr.)
check, contain, control, curb, hold, hold in, moderate, temper[Hyper.]
constraint, limitation, qualification, restriction - confinement, restriction - clipper, limiter - bond, hamper, shackle, trammel - bound, boundary, frontier, limit - circumscription, constraint, curtailment, limitation, restraint, restriction, trammels - limitation, restriction - bound, boundary, bounds - controller, restrainer - bound, boundary, edge - limitation - limitative, limiting, restrictive[Dérivé]
confine (v. tr.)
confine (v. tr.)
confine (v. tr.)
confine (v. tr.)
enfermer quelqu'un (fr)[Classe]
repousser quelqu'un (fr)[Classe]
confine (v. tr.)
bear, carry, contain, hold[Hyper.]
enclosure, precinct - enclosure, natural enclosure - confinement[Dérivé]
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