confine

confine
01. The prisoners were [confined] to their cells after an inmate was found murdered.
02. A medical team has successfully [confined] the disease to one village.
03. At the present time, the conflict seems to be [confined] to the area around the Palestinian village of Hebron.
04. The soldiers have been [confined] to their barracks while the investigation takes place.
05. The movie was filmed entirely within the [confines] of a local amusement park.
06. The child killer was being kept in solitary [confinement] for his own protection.
07. Studies have shown that child abuse is not [confined] to any particular social or economic class of society.
08. Despite his years of [confinement] in a prisoner-of-war camp, the old man always had a positive view of life.
09. Studies show that the importance of peer relations is not [confined] to human beings.
10. Some animals in factory farms spend their lives [confined] to concrete stalls and metal cages, terrified and suffering in such unnatural conditions.
11. The gas that surrounds a star acts as a blanket that [confines] the star's internal heat.
12. Vladislav has been [confined] to a wheelchair since his car accident 5 years ago.
13. There is a Chinese proverb which states: "Do not [confine] your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time."
14. Louisa May Alcott once said, "My definition of a philosopher is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which [confine] him to Earth, and trying to haul him down."
15. Mark Twain once said, "I am not one of those who in expressing opinions [confine] themselves to facts."
16. Economic activity in Mali is mainly [confined] to the area irrigated by the Niger River.
17. In traditional Korean society, women's roles were [confined] to the home.
18. H. Douglas Brown has noted that few if any people achieve fluency in a foreign language solely within the [confines] of the classroom.
19. [Confining] the patient to bed will only make it harder for her to get her strength back. She needs to be up and walking around as soon after the operation as possible.

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  • confiné — confiné, ée [ kɔ̃fine ] adj. • de confiner 1 ♦ Enfermé. Vivre confiné chez soi. 2 ♦ (1842) Air confiné, non renouvelé. ⇒ renfermé. Atmosphère confinée. confiné, ée adj. d1./d Enfermé. Un malade confiné dans sa chambre. Fig. Un esprit confiné dans …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • confine — con·fine vt con·fined, con·fin·ing: to hold within a location; specif: imprison Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. confine …   Law dictionary

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  • confiné — confiné, ée (kon fi né, née) part. passé. Relégué. Confiné dans un lieu solitaire. •   Obscurément confiné au fond de sa province, D ALEMB. Éloges, Trublet …   Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré

  • Confine — Con fine (? or ?); 277), v. i. To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; followed by on or with. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Where your gloomy bounds Confine with heaven. Milton. [1913 Webster] Bewixt heaven and earth and skies …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Confine — Con fine, n. 1. Common boundary; border; limit; used chiefly in the plural. [1913 Webster] Events that came to pass within the confines of Judea. Locke. [1913 Webster] And now in little space The confines met of empyrean heaven, And of this world …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Confine — Con*fine (k[o^]n*f[imac]n ), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Confined}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Confining}.] [F. confiner to border upon, LL. confinare to set bounds to; con + finis boundary, end. See {Final}, {Finish}.] To restrain within limits; to restrict; to… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • confine — s.m. [dal lat. confine, neutro dell agg. confinis confinante ]. 1. (geogr.) [linea che delimita un territorio o un terreno da un altro] ▶◀ delimitazione, demarcazione, limite, termine, [di regione geografica o di stato] frontiera. 2. (estens.)… …   Enciclopedia Italiana

  • confine — (n.) c.1400, boundary, limit (usually as confines), from O.Fr. confins boundaries, from M.L. confines, from L. confinium (pl. confinia) boundary, limit, from confine, neut. of confinis bordering on, having the same boundaries, from com with (see… …   Etymology dictionary

  • confine — vb circumscribe, *limit, restrict Analogous words: bind, *tie: *restrain, curb, inhibit, check: *hamper, trammel, fetter, shackle, hog tie, manacle: *imprison, incarcerate, immure, intern, jail confine n bound, * …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • confine — ► VERB 1) (confine to) restrict (someone or something) within certain limits of (space, scope, or time). 2) (be confined to) be unable to leave (one s bed, home, etc.) due to illness or disability. 3) (be confined) dated (of a woman) remain in… …   English terms dictionary

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