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.]
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Where your gloomy bounds
Confine with heaven. --Milton.
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Bewixt heaven and earth and skies there stands a place.
Confining on all three. --Dryden.
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Confine
\Con"fine\, n.
1. Common boundary; border; limit; -- used chiefly in the
plural.
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Events that came to pass within the confines of
Judea. --Locke.
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And now in little space
The confines met of empyrean heaven,
And of this world. --Milton.
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On the confines of the city and the Temple.
--Macaulay.
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2. Apartment; place of restraint; prison. [Obs.]
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Confines, wards, and dungeons. --Shak.
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The extravagant and erring spirit hies
To his confine. --Shak.
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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.
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Now let not nature's hand
Keep the wild flood confined! let order die! --Shak.
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He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and
the slavery of rhyme. --Dryden.
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To be confined, to be in childbed.
Syn: To bound; limit; restrain; imprison; immure; inclose;
circumscribe; restrict.
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