limit /limˈit/

1. A boundary, esp one which may not be passed
2. A restriction
3. A predetermined price at which a broker is instructed to buy or sell (stock exchange)
4. A value, position or figure that can be approached indefinitely (mathematics)
5. A prescribed time (Shakespeare)
6. Something which is bounded, a region or division
7. (with the) the unspeakable extreme of what may be endured (informal)

1. To confine within bounds
2. To restrict
3. To appoint or specify (Shakespeare)

limˈitable adjective

limitāˈrian noun (theology)

Someone who limits salvation to part of mankind

limˈitary /-ə-ri/ adjective

1. Of a boundary
2. Placed at the boundary
3. Confined within limits
4. Licensed as a limiter (historical)

limitāˈtion noun

1. A limiting
2. A lack of physical ability, talent, etc
3. A specified period within which an action must be brought, etc (law)

limˈitātive adjective

Tending to limit

limˈited adjective

1. Within limits
2. Narrow
3. Restricted

A limited company

limˈitedly adverb

limˈitedness noun

limˈiter noun

1. A person, device or circumstance that limits or confines
2. A friar who had a licence to beg within certain bounds (historical)

limˈiting noun and adjective

limˈitless adjective

1. Having no limits
2. Boundless
3. Immense
4. Infinite

limˈitlessly adverb

limˈitlessness noun

limited company or limˈited-liabilˈity company noun

One whose owners have liability for its debts, etc only according to their financial stake in it

limited edition noun

An edition, esp of a book, of which only a certain number of copies is printed or made

limited express noun (N American)

An express railway train carrying a limited number of passengers

limited liability see under liable

limited monarchy noun

One in which the monarch shares the supreme power with others, constitutional monarchy

limˈited-oˈver adjective

Of a cricket match, in which the number of overs bowled by each side is restricted

limited war noun

One in which the combatants' aim is not the total destruction of the enemy, esp one in which nuclear warfare is deliberately avoided

limit gauge noun (engineering)

A gauge used to verify that a part has been made to within specified dimensional limits

• no-trumper
• no-trumps
• not say boo to a goose
• not see beyond one's nose
• not see further than the end of one's nose
• not see the wood for the trees
• nott
• not take no for an answer
• not tell chalk from cheese
• not that
• not the end of the world
• not the faintest
• not the full quid
• not the full shilling
• not the word for it
• not to be sneezed at
• not to be sniffed at
• not to give a monkey's
• not to have a ghost
• not to have a ghost of a chance
• not to know a B from a battledore
• not to lead the life of a dog
• not to mention
• not to put too fine a point on it
• not to say