Results for confine

Definitions of confine:

part of speech: verb transitive

To restrict within limits; imprison; to keep in the house by sickness.

part of speech: noun

Border, boundary, or limit- generally used in plural.

part of speech: noun

A boundary or limit; a frontier; usually plural; as, to keep within the confines of the country.

part of speech: adjective

Bordering on; adjacent.

part of speech: verb

To restrain within limits; to imprison; to shut up; to be much at home or in retirement; to tie or make fast; to bind.

part of speech: verb transitive

To limit, inclose, imprison.

Usage examples for confine:

• So we will at first confine ourselves to the observation of pleasant waters. "Round-about Rambles in Lands of Fact and Fancy", Frank Richard Stockton

• Proceeding further with the experiment, if, instead of allowing the steam to blow into the water, you confine it until it gets to some pressure, then blow it into the water, it takes the same weight to raise the temperature to the same degree. "James Watt", Andrew Carnegie

• She wanted to get established on the footing of a friend in that poor little house; and she thought she had better perhaps not confine her line of advance to the garden. "Melbourne House", Elizabeth Wetherell