Definitions for confines
con·fines

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1. confinesnoun

   a bounded scope

   "he stayed within the confines of the city"

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1. confinesnoun

   The borders or limits of an area.

2. confinesnoun

   Elements that restrain someone.

3. confinesnoun

   The scope or range of a subject.

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1. Confines

   Confines is a town and municipality in the Santander Department in northeastern Colombia.

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1. 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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1. Confines

   Confines is a town and municipality in the Santander Department in northeastern Colombia.

Matched Categories

1. • Scope

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How to pronounce confines?

1. Alex

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   Australian

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How to say confines in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of confines in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of confines in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of confines in a Sentence

1. Oscar Auliq-Ice:

   Feeding yourself lies or half-truths will lead to the forming of a reality that doesn’t actually exist past the confines of your psyche.

2. 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.

3. Jackie Bryant:

   I've decided I can't put that part of my life on hold. I need sex, I want to be in a relationship and who knows how long this will last, you learn to navigate that within the confines of Covid.

4. Robert Malley:

   If Iran does comes back to the table, whenever they come back to the seventh round, and put on the table issues that clearly go beyond the confines of the JCPOA, and that's sort of what we're hearing, I mean we may be wrong, but that's what we're hearing, then we're prepared to have a negotiation about a different kind of deal, a deal that would address more issues than the JCPOA. But Iran is gon na have to make a choice and it can't have it both ways. It can't say that the US has to give more than the JCPOA and Iran is going to give only what the JCPOA requires, or perhaps even less.

5. John Berger:

   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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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=confines
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Confines
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confines
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=confines
6. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=confines