Word Finder - limited

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To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries.

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I'm limiting myself to two drinks tonight.

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To have a limit in a particular set.

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The sequence limits on the point a.

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To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region.

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a limiting friar

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An express train that only halts at a limited number of stops.

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With certain (often specified) limits placed upon it.

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Of numbers, amounts, data: poor, small, felt to be insufficient.

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I have a limited understanding of quantum physics.

After a few hours of limited rest, they were back in the saddle again.

Their time was limited if they were to visit the disputed property.

His magic is limited on the mortal world as well.

He must sense you're limited to observing what happens.

Without her magic, her defenses were too limited to stop him.

The road was rough but not limited to four-wheel drive vehicles like the mountain Jeep roads to the south.

Books for the blind are very limited in number.

Machines can actually do a very limited palette of things.

In everything near and comprehensible he had only what was limited, petty, commonplace, and senseless.

The indebtedness of a county, municipality or school district is limited to 5% of the value of its taxable property.

People had limited control over their emotions, but they could certainly remain in control of their actions.

The Mesozoic beds are limited in extent, the most extensive areas lying around the Gulf of Orosei on the east and west of Sassari in the north.

Dean entered a living room, furnished tastefully but on a limited budget.

She wants to do business as a limited liability company, so she creates an LLC online for $200.

Jennifer, forced to husband her limited shots, took more time with hers as well.

The infallibility of the Church, thus limited, is a necessary outcome of the fundamental conception of the Catholic Church and its mission.

And reciprocally, whatever may be the absolute rights of the ecclesiastical society over the appointment of its dignitaries, the administration of its property, and the government of its adherents, the exercise of these rights is limited and restricted by the stable engagements and concessions of the concordatory pact, which bind the head of the church with regard to the nations.

We gave only limited thought to the upcoming session as our pre wedding trip and plans took precedence in our hectic schedule.

If he, Cynthia, and Fred were tasked with simply finding the identity of the old bones, the chore would be difficult at best and limited to Fred and his cronies researching old records.

The January sun continued in its brilliance and the rhythmic gliding across the crystal snow, though not exhausting, warmed the couple to the point where even their limited outer cover seemed excessive.

The numerals in use were limited.

The method of induction between insulated primary and secondary circuits laid out flat on the surface of the earth proves to be of limited application, and in his later experiments Preece returned to a method which unites both conduction and induction as the means of affecting one circuit by a current in another.

Diamonds have been found, but only to a very limited extent.

The mineral wealth of the state is limited.

He was quite unacquainted with the history of his own language and literature, and more here than anywhere else he showed the extraordinarily limited and conventional spirit which accompanied the revolt of the French 18th century against limits and conventions in theological, ethical and political matters.

The commerce of Lake Ontario is limited in comparison with that of the lakes above Niagara Falls, and is restricted to vessels 1?

It is the duty of the surveyor to keep the highways in repair; and if a highway is out of repair, the surveyor may be summoned before justices and convicted in a penalty not exceedin ordered to complete the repairs within, a limited time.

The term 1 is not limited to underground operations, but includes also surface excavations, as in placer mining and open-air workings of coal and ore deposits by methods similar to quarrying, and boring operations for oil, natural gas or brine.

In the first place experiment has shown that biting-flies, other in all probability than the true, natural hosts, may at times transmit the parasites - as it were - accidentally, if, after feeding on an infected animal, they are allowed to bite a fresh one within a limited time.

The body is probably not limited by any distinct membrane.

Sizarships are awarded on examination to students of limited means, and carry certain relaxations of fees.

This stage of religion is well illustrated by the Red Indian custom of offering sacrifice to certain rocks, or whirlpools, or to the indwelling spirits connected with them; the rite is only performed in the neighbourhood of the object, it is an incident of a canoe or other voyage, and is not intended to secure any benefits beyond a safe passage past the object in question; the spirit to be propitiated has a purely local sphere of influence, and powers of a very limited nature.

Freedom not limited by anything is the essence of life, in man's consciousness.

Towards the end of the period, however, during the deposition of the Portlandian beds, the sea again retreated, and in the early part of the Cretaceous period was limited (in France) to the catchment basins of the Sane and Rhnein the Paris basin the contemporaneous deposits were chiefly estuarine and were confined to the northern and eastern rim.

The state controls its cultivation, which is allowed only in a limited number of departments.

As the prefect in the department, so the sub-prefect in the arrondissement, though with a more limited power, is the representative of the central authority.

Little, however, has been done to utilize the deposits, the demands of the colonial markets being extremely limited.

Saxe-Meiningen is a limited monarchy, its constitution resting on a law of 1829, subsequently modified.

His father was a tradesman of limited means, but of studious character and active mind.

The governor has limited powers of appointment and pardon and a veto power which may be overridden by a majority vote in each house.

While his treaty with Lord Lyons in 1862 for the suppression of the slave trade conceded to England the right of search to a limited extent in African and Cuban waters, he secured a similar concession for American war vessels from the British government, and by his course in the Trent Affair he virtually committed Great Britain to the American attitude with regard to this right.

Before his arrival the Dublin garrison had defeated Ormonde with a loss of 5000 men, and Cromwell's work was limited to the capture of detached fortresses.

The new comedy of Greece was probably limited for the most part to scenes written in the metres of dialogue; it remained for Plautus, as Leo has shown, to enliven his plays with cantica modelled on the contemporary lyric verse of Greece or Magna Graecia, which was in its turn a development of the dramatic lyrics of Euripides.

This sorting can occur spontaneously to a limited extent; while if we could carry it out as far as we pleased we might transform the whole of the heat of a body into work.

The availability of the energy of electrical separation in a charged Leyden jar is also limited only by the resistance of conductors, in virtue of which an amount of heat is necessarily produced, which is greater the less the time occupied in discharging the jar.

The availability of the energy of magnetization is limited by the coercive force of the magnetized material, in virtue of which any change in the intensity of magnetization is accompanied by the production of heat.

These instruments thus produced, in Haydn's and Beethoven's times, a very remarkable but closely limited series of effects, which, as Sir George Macfarren pointed out in the article "Music" in the 9th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, gave them a peculiar character and function in strongly asserting the main notes of the key.

Delany (which was adopted to a limited extent in Great Britain, but has now been entirely discarded) had for its object the working of a number of instruments simultaneously on one wire.

It was found to be peculiarly adapted for communication between ships at sea and between ship and shore, and a system of regular supermarine communication was put into operation by two limited companies, Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company and the Marconi International Marine Communication Company.

In the time of Ptolemy their territory is limited to the district between the Ciabrus (Tzibritza) and Utus (Vid), in the modern Bulgaria, their chief town being Oescus (OtvKos Tpc aXX6 v).