Definitions for CONFINE
kənˈfaɪn for 1, 2, 5, 6 ; ˈkɒn faɪn for 3, 4con·fine

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. restrict, restrain, trammel, limit, bound, confine, throttleverb

   place limits on (extent or access)

   "restrict the use of this parking lot"; "limit the time you can spend with your friends"

2. limit, circumscribe, confineverb

   restrict or confine, "I limit you to two visits to the pub a day"

3. confineverb

   prevent from leaving or from being removed

4. enclose, hold in, confineverb

   close in; darkness enclosed him"

5. confine, detainverb

   deprive of freedom; take into confinement

6. restrain, confine, holdverb

   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"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. confinenoun

   Limit.

2. confineverb

   To restrict; to keep within bounds; to shut or keep in a limited space or area

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Confineadjective

   Bordering upon; beginning where the other ends; having one common boundary.

   Etymology: confinis, Latin.

2. CONFINEnoun

   Common boundary; border; edge.

   Etymology: confinis, Lat.

   Here in these confines slily have I lurk’d,
   To watch the waining of mine enemies. William Shakespeare, Rich. III.

   You are old:
   Nature in you stands on the very verge
   Of her confine. William Shakespeare, King Lear.

   The confines of the river Niger, where the negroes are, are well watered. Francis Bacon, Natural History, №. 399.

   ’Twas ebbing darkness, past the noon of night,
   And Posphor on the confines of the night. John Dryden, Fables.

   The idea of duration, equal to a revolution of the sun, is applicable to duration, where no motion was; as the idea of a foot, taken from bodies here, to distances beyond the confines of the world, where are no bodies. John Locke.

3. To Confineverb

   Etymology: confiner, Fr. confinis, Latin.

   1. To bound; to limit.2. To shut up; to imprison; to immure; to restrain within certain limits.

   I’ll not over the threshold. ————
   ———— Fy, you confine yourself most unreasonably: come, you must go visit the good lady. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.

   I had been
   As broad an gen’ral as the casing air;
   But now I’m cabbin’d, cribb’d, confin’d, bound in
   To saucy doubts. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

   3. To restrain; to tie up to.

   He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers, and the slavery of rhime. Dryden.

4. To Confineverb

   To border upon; to touch on different territories.

   Half lost, I seek
   What readiest path leads where your gloomy bounds
   Confine with heav’n. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. ii. l. 975.

   Full in the midst of this created space,
   Betwixt heav’n, earth, and skies, there stands a place
   Confining on all three. Dryden.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Confine

   Confine is a village (curazia) located in San Marino. It belongs to the municipality (castello) of Chiesanuova. Its name, in Italian, means "border".

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1. confine

   To confine means to restrict or limit someone or something within certain boundaries or to a specific area. It may also refer to the action of keeping someone or something under control or within limits.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Confineverb

   to restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close

2. Confineverb

   to have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; -- followed by on or with

3. Confinenoun

   common boundary; border; limit; -- used chiefly in the plural

4. Confinenoun

   apartment; place of restraint; prison

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Confine

   kon′fīn, n. border, boundary, or limit—generally in pl.: (kon-fīn′) confinement: (Shak.) a prison.—v.t. Confine′, to border; to be adjacent to: to limit, enclose: to imprison.—adjs. Confin′-able; Confined′, limited: imprisoned: narrow; Confine′less (Shak.), without bound: unlimited.—ns. Confine′ment, state of being shut up: restraint: imprisonment: restraint from going abroad by sickness, and esp. of women in childbirth; Confin′er. one within the confines: (Shak.) an inhabitant.—adj. Confin′ing, bordering: limiting.—Be confined, to be limited: to be in child-bed. [Fr. confiner—L. confinis, bordering—con, together, finis, the end.]

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1. • Restrain

British National Corpus

1. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'CONFINE' in Verbs Frequency: #604

How to pronounce CONFINE?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of CONFINE in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of CONFINE in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of CONFINE in a Sentence

1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:

   Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!

2. Franklin Pierce:

   If the Federal Government will confine itself to the exercise of powers clearly granted by the Constitution , it can hardly happen that its action upon any question should endanger the institutions of the States or interfere with their right to manage matters strictly domestic according to the will of their own people.

3. Francis Quarles:

   If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee. He that thinks he can never speak enough, may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted.

4. David Howman:

   I don't confine my comments to the NCAA within the United States. I would say internationally that's an area where there needs to be much more done because there are young athletes who are tempted to cheat in order to try to get the professional contracts, i don't think you can even say that there's such a thing as an amateur athlete these days except within the college system in this country.

5. Yudhvir Singh Malik:

   I have told states to not confine only to Maggi, but extend to other manufacturers of noodles, why should we isolate Nestle? It's not a question of targeting.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=CONFINE
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Confine
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=CONFINE
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confine
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/CONFINE
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=CONFINE