confine : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: confine	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for confine
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
confine v place limits on (extent or access); "restrict the use of this parking lot"; "limit the time you can spend with your friends" Synonym(s): restrict, restrain, trammel, limit, bound, confine, throttle restrict or confine, "I limit you to two visits to the pub a day" Synonym(s): limit, circumscribe, confine prevent from leaving or from being removed close in; darkness enclosed him" Synonym(s): enclose, hold in, confine deprive of freedom; take into confinement Synonym(s): confine, detain Antonym(s): free, liberate, loose, release, unloose, unloosen 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" Synonym(s): restrain, confine, hold
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Confine \Confine"\, 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.] Where your gloomy bounds Confine with heaven. --Milton. Bewixt heaven and earth and skies there stands a place. Confining on all three. --Dryden.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Confine \Con"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.