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Restrictions vs Confined - What's the difference?

restrictions | confined |

As a noun restrictions

is .

As a verb confined is

(confine).

As an adjective confined is

not free to move.

restrictions

English

Noun

(head)
  • Restrictions may apply.

    confined

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (confine)
  • Adjective

    (-)
  • not free to move

  • confine

    English

    Verb

    (confin)
  • To restrict; to keep within bounds; to shut or keep in a limited space or area.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Now let not nature's hand / Keep the wild flood confined ! let order die!
  • * Dryden
  • He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of rhyme.
  • To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; followed by on'' or ''with .
  • * Milton
  • Where your gloomy bounds / Confine with heaven
  • * Dryden
  • Betwixt heaven and earth and skies there stands a place / Confining on all three.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Limit.
  • Synonyms

    * (limit) border, bound, limit English heteronyms ----