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confine

verb
/kənˈfaɪn//ˈkɒnfaɪn/UK/ˈkɑnfaɪn/US

Etymology

From Middle French confiner, from confins, from Medieval Latin confines, from Latin confinium, from confīnis.

  1. derived from confinium
  2. derived from confines
  3. borrowed from confiner

Definitions

  1. To have a common boundary with

    To have a common boundary with; to border on.

    • Where your gloomy bounds / Confine with heaven
    • Betwixt heaven and earth and skies there stands a place / Confining on all three.
    • ‘Why, Sir, to be sure, such parts of Sclavonia as confine with Germany, will borrow German words; and such parts as confine with Tartary will borrow Tartar words.’

  2. To restrict (someone or something) to a particular scope or area

    To restrict (someone or something) to a particular scope or area; to keep in or within certain bounds.

    • Now let not nature's hand / Keep the wild flood confined! let order die!
    • 1680, John Dryden, Ovid’s Epistles translated by several hands, London: Jacob Tonson, Preface, He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of rhyme.

  3. A boundary or limit.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Confinement, imprisonment.

      • She says for you to bring her a slice of cake, A bottle of the best wine, And not to forget the fair young lady That did release you from close confine.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at confine. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at confine. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at confine

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA