confines

con·fine  (kn-fn)

v. con·fined, con·fin·ing, con·fines

v.tr.

1. To keep within bounds; restrict: Please confine your remarks to the issues at hand. See Synonyms at limit.

2. To shut or keep in, especially to imprison.

3. To restrict in movement: The sick child was confined to bed.

v.intr. Archaic

To border.

n. (knfn)

1. confines

a. The limits of a space or area; the borders: within the confines of one county.

b. Restraining elements: wanted to escape the confines of corporate politics.

c. Purview; scope: a theory that is well within the confines of science.

2.

a. Archaic A restriction.

b. Obsolete A prison.

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[French confiner, from Old French, from confins, boundaries, ultimately from Latin cnfne, from neuter of cnfnis, adjoining : com-, com- + fnis, border.]

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con·fina·ble, con·finea·ble adj.

con·finer n.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

confines - a bounded scope; "he stayed within the confines of the city" ambit, range, scope, reach, compass, orbit - an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: "the range of a supersonic jet"; "a piano has a greater range than the human voice"; "the ambit of municipal legislation"; "within the compass of this article"; "within the scope of an investigation"; "outside the reach of the law"; "in the political orbit of a world power" plural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than one

Translations

confines [ˈkɒnfaɪnz] NPL → confines mpl, límites mpl

confines [ˈkɒnfaɪnz] npl → confins mpl, limites fpl
within the confines of → dans les limites de

confines [ˈkɒnfaɪnz] npl (bounds) → confini mpl