Found 3 items, similar to Confine.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: confine batas, perbatasan
English → English (WordNet) Definition: confine confine v 1: restrict or confine, “I limit you to two visits to the pub a day” [syn: limit, circumscribe] 2: place limits on (extent or access); “restrict the use of this parking lot”; “limit the time you can spend with your friends” [syn: restrict, restrain, trammel, limit, bound, throttle] 3: prevent from leaving or from being removed 4: close in or confine [syn: enclose, hold in] 5: deprive of freedom; take into confinement [syn: detain] [ant: free] 6: 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” [syn: restrain, hold]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Confine Confine \Con"fine\ (? or ?); 277), v. i. To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; -- followed by on or with. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Where your gloomy bounds Confine with heaven. --Milton. [1913 Webster] Bewixt heaven and earth and skies there stands a place. Confining on all three. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] Confine \Con"fine\, n. 1. Common boundary; border; limit; -- used chiefly in the plural. [1913 Webster] Events that came to pass within the confines of Judea. --Locke. [1913 Webster] And now in little space The confines met of empyrean heaven, And of this world. --Milton. [1913 Webster] On the confines of the city and the Temple. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] 2. Apartment; place of restraint; prison. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Confines, wards, and dungeons. --Shak. [1913 Webster] The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Confine \Con*fine"\ (k[o^]n*f[imac]n"), 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. [1913 Webster] Now let not nature's hand Keep the wild flood confined! let order die! --Shak. [1913 Webster] He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of rhyme. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] To be confined, to be in childbed. Syn: To bound; limit; restrain; imprison; immure; inclose; circumscribe; restrict. [1913 Webster]