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Princeton's WordNet
confinesnoun
a bounded scope
"he stayed within the confines of the city"
Wiktionary
confinesnoun
The borders or limits of an area.
confinesnoun
Elements that restrain someone.
confinesnoun
The scope or range of a subject.
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Confines
Confines is a town and municipality in the Santander Department in northeastern Colombia.
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confines
Confines refer to the boundaries, limits, or borders of something. It indicates the extent or scope within which a particular activity, process, or object exists or can be done. It can also be used to refer to a restricted area or space where someone is held or confined.
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Confines
Confines is a town and municipality in the Santander Department in northeastern Colombia.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of confines in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of confines in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of confines in a Sentence
No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head.
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest:
The president is confident his administration did do everything that was possible within the confines of that policy, using our military might, using our intelligence capability, using our diplomatic influence, to try to secure the safe release and return of Kayla Mueller.
15 percent that you can work with, what we are all trying to do is figure out how we do that in the confines of the current agreements.
The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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