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Limiting   /lˈɪmətɪŋ/   Listen
Limiting

adjective
1.
Restricting the scope or freedom of action.  Synonyms: confining, constraining, constrictive, restricting.
2.
Strictly limiting the reference of a modified word or phrase.
noun
1.
The grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase.  Synonyms: modification, qualifying.


Limit

verb
(past & past part. limited; pres. part. limiting)
1.
Place limits on (extent or access).  Synonyms: bound, confine, restrain, restrict, throttle, trammel.  "Limit the time you can spend with your friends"
2.
Restrict or confine,.  Synonyms: circumscribe, confine.
3.
Decide upon or fix definitely.  Synonyms: define, determine, fix, set, specify.  "Specify the parameters"



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"Limiting" Quotes from Famous Books



... the combination of a four way cock with a receptacle having a movable partition operated by the water, substantially as described, for the purpose of limiting and determining the amount of water to be ...
— Scientific American, Vol. 17, No. 26 December 28, 1867 • Various
... be so arranged that the houses can't be made over to others, nor encumbered with fresh loan. Our cooperative enterprises must avoid all form of speculation, thereby limiting the field for capital. The whole thing should be self-supporting and be able to do away with private property within its boundaries. You see it's your own idea of a community within the community that I'm building ...
— Pelle the Conqueror, Complete • Martin Andersen Nexo
... providing for the appointment of a commission of five members "to be appointed by the President of the United States to consider the expediency of utilizing existing international agencies for the purpose of limiting the armaments of the nations of the world by international agreement, and of constituting the combined navies of the world an international force for the preservation of universal peace, and to consider and report upon any other means to diminish the expenditures of government ...
— State of the Union Addresses of William H. Taft • William H. Taft
... and redemption; of man's responsibility for his own damnation; of man's conversion, not by compulsion or coercion, etc. The Second Article most emphatically teaches the sola gratia, but without in any way limiting, violating, or encroaching upon, universal grace. It is not merely opposed to Pelagian, Semi-Pelagian and synergistic errors, but to Stoic and Calvinistic aberrations as well. While it is not the special object of the ...
— Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church • Friedrich Bente
... not continue to lighten. Though there was no cottony mist as had enclosed them the night before, there was an odd muting of sea and sky, limiting vision. Shortly Ross was unable to sight the follower or followers. Even Vistur admitted he had lost visual contact. Had the blot been hopelessly outdistanced, or was it still dogging the wakes of the ...
— Key Out of Time • Andre Alice Norton


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