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RESTRICTING |
Limiting |
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RESTRICTIVE |
Limiting |
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CONFINING |
Limiting |
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METE |
Limiting mark |
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CORRECTIVE |
Qualifying; limiting. |
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FINIFIC |
A limiting element or quality. |
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LIMITARY |
Limiting, or tending to limit; restrictive. |
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DEFINITIVE |
Limiting; determining; as, a definitive word. |
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DETERMINATIVE |
Having power to determine; limiting; shaping;
directing; conclusive. |
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DEFINITE |
Serving to define or restrict; limiting; determining; as,
the definite article. |
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LIMIT |
To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain
limited region; as, a limiting friar. |
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CIRCUMSCRIPTION |
The act of limiting, or the state of being
limited, by conditions or restraints; bound; confinement; limit. |
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DETERMINATION |
The addition of a differentia to a concept or
notion, thus limiting its extent; -- the opposite of generalization. |
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PRECISIVE |
Cutting off; (Logic) exactly limiting by cutting off all
that is not absolutely relative to the purpose; as, precisive censure;
precisive abstraction. |
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LIMITATION |
The act of limiting; the state or condition of being
limited; as, the limitation of his authority was approved by the
council. |
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TERMINATION |
The act of terminating, or of limiting or setting
bounds; the act of ending or concluding; as, a voluntary termination of
hostilities. |
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AS |
In the idea, character, or condition of, -- limiting
the view to certain attributes or relations; as, virtue considered as
virtue; this actor will appear as Hamlet. |
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STOP |
A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for
arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which
another part shall be brought. |
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QUALIFICATION |
The act of limiting, or the state of being limited;
that which qualifies by limiting; modification; restriction; hence,
abatement; diminution; as, to use words without any qualification. |
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BULKHEAD |
A structure of wood or stone, to resist the pressure of
earth or water; a partition wall or structure, as in a mine; the
limiting wall along a water front. |
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BOUND |
The external or limiting line, either real or imaginary, of
any object or space; that which limits or restrains, or within which
something is l... |
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HENDIADYS |
A figure in which the idea is expressed by two nouns
connected by and, instead of by a noun and limiting adjective; as, we
drink from cups and gold, for golden cups. |
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IN |
...nces or conditions of any kind conceived of as
limiting, confining, or investing, either wholly or in part. In its
different applications, it ap... |
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PREPOSITION |
...always in the objective case) to
make a phrase limiting some other word; -- so called because usually
placed before the word with which it is ph... |