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单词 self-limiting
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Definition of self-limiting in English:

self-limiting

adjective
  • 1Relating to or denoting something which limits itself.

    commodity speculation is self-limiting
    Example sentencesExamples
    • For the rest of us, self-limiting commoners, join me in the self-conversion process.
    • The reason that the minimum wage is problematic is that it is also self-limiting, only because companies can't pay employees less than the minimum wage, what generally gets limited is the number of jobs.
    • That guarantees that the story is eventually self-limiting.
    • Are you in fact a self-limiting company consigning yourself to being eternally small because of the high environmental standards you expect?
    • The process is self-limiting and the increasing levels of alcohol kill off the yeast.
    • Instead of being self-limiting, the old-style colloquial schoolboy language used gives an intensity of expression in a simple and precise way.
    • Press baron demagoguery, however unfair, reflected the biases and passions of specific men, and was thus self-limiting.
    • Imagine an environment where you receive acceptance without judgement and break from self-limiting behaviour.
    1. 1.1Medicine (of a condition) ultimately resolving itself without treatment.
      money is wasted on prescriptions for self-limiting illnesses
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Uncomplicated cases of cholera are self-limiting in nature and the patient recovers within three to six days.
      • No one explained to them the scientific and practical gains that might come from knowing more about the self-limiting and self-correcting nature of syphilis so as to be able to evaluate the power of early therapeutic interventions.
      • In most patients it is self-limiting and a definite cause cannot be found.
      • A spokesperson said the virus seemed to be self-limiting and the student suspected of having meningitis underwent the full range of laboratory tests for the illness.
      • Neuroleptic malignant syndrome is a self-limiting condition once the offending agent has been discontinued.
  • 2(in psychology) preventing the development or expression of the self.

    low self-esteem comes from the self-limiting beliefs we have about our bodies
    Example sentencesExamples
    • When this happens, the subliminal beliefs that formerly were self-limiting begin to change.
 
 

Definition of self-limiting in US English:

self-limiting

adjective
  • 1Relating to or denoting something which limits itself.

    commodity speculation is self-limiting
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Press baron demagoguery, however unfair, reflected the biases and passions of specific men, and was thus self-limiting.
    • For the rest of us, self-limiting commoners, join me in the self-conversion process.
    • Are you in fact a self-limiting company consigning yourself to being eternally small because of the high environmental standards you expect?
    • The process is self-limiting and the increasing levels of alcohol kill off the yeast.
    • Instead of being self-limiting, the old-style colloquial schoolboy language used gives an intensity of expression in a simple and precise way.
    • Imagine an environment where you receive acceptance without judgement and break from self-limiting behaviour.
    • The reason that the minimum wage is problematic is that it is also self-limiting, only because companies can't pay employees less than the minimum wage, what generally gets limited is the number of jobs.
    • That guarantees that the story is eventually self-limiting.
    1. 1.1Medicine (of a condition) ultimately resolving itself without treatment.
      money is wasted on prescriptions for self-limiting illnesses
      Example sentencesExamples
      • No one explained to them the scientific and practical gains that might come from knowing more about the self-limiting and self-correcting nature of syphilis so as to be able to evaluate the power of early therapeutic interventions.
      • A spokesperson said the virus seemed to be self-limiting and the student suspected of having meningitis underwent the full range of laboratory tests for the illness.
      • In most patients it is self-limiting and a definite cause cannot be found.
      • Uncomplicated cases of cholera are self-limiting in nature and the patient recovers within three to six days.
      • Neuroleptic malignant syndrome is a self-limiting condition once the offending agent has been discontinued.
  • 2(in psychology) preventing the development or expression of the self.

    low self-esteem comes from the self-limiting beliefs we have about our bodies
    Example sentencesExamples
    • When this happens, the subliminal beliefs that formerly were self-limiting begin to change.
 
 
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