单词 | to limit in |
释义 | > as lemmasto limit in b. transitive. To serve as a limit or boundary to; to bound; to mark off from. Also to limit in. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > bound or form boundary of [verb (transitive)] terminate?a1425 border1570 limit1578 frontier1599 lista1600 bound1601 confine1601 bounder1636 verge1817 delimit1879 1578 J. Banister Hist. Man i. f. 3 When Extension is made neither can any of the Processes passe further in their Celles, then the vtmost seat, to them by nature limited. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 8 This rule thus fixed no tyme shal limit, or hazard [L. his ego nec metas rerum nec tempora pono]. 1594 T. Blundeville Exercises v. f. 263v The prouinces that..are limitted with the prouinces of China. 1601 J. Weever Mirror of Martyrs sig. Ev Limits there be for euery thing beside, No banks can limit in the sea of pride. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 122 The kingdome of the Parthians..is limited and separat by these mountaines and streights. 1625 K. Long tr. J. Barclay Argenis i. xx. 60 The souldiers reached to the doore of the Temple in two rankes, limiting the way to them that came to the Princesse. 1635 Earl of Manchester Al Mondo: Contemplatio Mortis (rev. ed.) 185 God cannot bee God, if Nature limit him. 1789 P. Smyth tr. H. Aldrich Archit. (1818) 121 The apertures are limited by two jambs, and the mantle-tree. 1889 P. Geddes & J. A. Thomson Evol. Sex xi. 146 Round the chromatin rods vacuoles are formed, limiting them from the surrounding protoplasm. 1908 F. S. Watson & J. H. Cunningham Dis. & Surg. of Genito-urinary Syst. II. iii. xxvi. 289 The growth is composed of nodules of different size, each surrounded by a capsule which limits it from the surrounding adrenal tissue. 1909 H. Woods Palæontol. Invertebr. (ed. 4) 251 Ears indistinctly limited from the rest of the shell, the anterior very short, the posterior long. 1999 Code of Federal Regulations: 9: Animals (Office of Federal Register, U.S.) i. 188/2 This space shall be limited on each side by the 6-foot fence. < as lemmas |
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