Restrict
[rɪ'strɪkt]
Definition
(verb.) place limits on (extent or access); 'restrict the use of this parking lot'; 'limit the time you can spend with your friends'.
(verb.) place restrictions on; 'curtail drinking in school'.
(verb.) place under restrictions; limit access to; 'This substance is controlled'.
Editor: Sasha--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Restricted.
(v. t.) To restrain within bounds; to limit; to confine; as, to restrict worlds to a particular meaning; to restrict a patient to a certain diet.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Limit, bound, restrain, confine, circumscribe, hedge in.
Editor: Tod
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See RESTRAIN]
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Definition
v.t. to limit: to confine: to repress: to attach limitations.—adv. Restric′tedly.—n. Restric′tion act of restricting: limitation: confinement.—adj. Restric′tive having the power or tendency to restrict: astringent.—adv. Restric′tively.—n. Restric′tiveness the state or quality of being restrictive.
Editor: Pierre
Examples
- But conditions which he could not intellectually control led him to restrict these ideas in their application. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He tried to make a caste of the peasants and small cultivators, and to restrict them from moving from their holdings. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There are various schools of thought which would restrict property more or less completely. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Their social activities are such as to restrict their objects of attention and interest, and hence to limit the stimuli to mental development. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- When the purpose of the activity is restricted to ascertaining these qualities, the resulting knowledge is only technical. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In a recent and more restricted sense, it is applied to a machine that cuts grain, separates it into gavels, and binds it. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Thus vanquished and restricted, she pined, like any other chained denizen of deserts. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Varieties generally have much restricted ranges. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- On the death of the old people, I suppose there will be more to come; but how it may be restricted or locked up, I don't know. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- When men identified their interests exclusively with the concerns of a narrow group, their generalizations were correspondingly restricted. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- As an end-all and be-all of geographical knowledge it is fatally restricted. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The clepsydra became in Greece a useful instrument to enforce the law in restricting loquacious orators and lawyers to reasonable limits in their addresses. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The task is turned from the damming and restricting of wants to the creation of fine environments for them. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- This evil, however, is of too little importance to deserve the public attention, nor would it necessarily be prevented by restricting their numbers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It is a narrow view which restricts the science which secures efficiency of operation to movements of the muscles. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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