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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
confine
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a confined/enclosed space (=small and enclosed)
▪ It was difficult being together in such a confined space.
confined to a wheelchair (=has had to use a wheelchair)
▪ Lynn has been confined to a wheelchair for the last year.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
largely
▪ Until now it had been thought that the problem was largely confined to Devon and Cornwall.
▪ Polls suggest that cultural snobbery is largely confined to intellectuals.
▪ The third type seem to be solid, and are largely confined to the lower half of the main cloud.
▪ The single-subject academic course is largely confined to the universities, reflecting their traditions of specialized scholarship and their stronger research orientation.
▪ These institutions were concerned mainly with gymnastics and confined largely to women until after the Second World War.
▪ Moreover, its big-name client base so far is largely confined to Sainsbury, Gateway and the main petrol retailers.
▪ Most trade unionists had been indifferent to any political theory beyond an instinctive syndicalism which was itself largely confined to industrial disputes.
▪ Thus political links were largely confined to the Comintern network which, not withstanding this fact, was initially extremely weak.
longer
▪ Fruit is no longer confined to heavy syrup; you can find it in light syrup or packed in its own juice.
mainly
▪ The era of class confrontation in Britain's coalfields had been confined mainly to the short period 1910-26.
▪ Most firms regarded the cost as low and confined mainly to power used for pumping and to maintenance.
to
▪ On 18 January 1956 the Committee's Joint Declaration rejected the notion that integration should be confined to only six countries.
▪ In far too many instances real hard preparatory work is confined to well trained union negotiators.
▪ Disasters of this sort were confined to neither traditionally flooded land nor the winter months.
usually
▪ Such networks are inevitably built up on a regional basis because the finds are usually confined to a limited geographical region.
▪ In practice, detailed attention is usually confined to double correlations with briefer investigation of triple correlations.
▪ The ventral interradial area is also covered with granules, if spinelets are present they are usually confined to the distal edge.
▪ The epoch of blue shift is usually confined to the time when the object is still inside the event horizon.
▪ Such problems are usually confined to ponds in which there is little or no water movement, and generally occur at night.
▪ It was employed on marble and was usually confined to capitals, pulpits and fonts.
■ NOUN
activity
▪ Gawley confined his activities to short circuits.
▪ In general, science policy-making institutions can not just confine their activities to provide policy directions.
▪ He did not confine his activities to Claudine, then?
area
▪ The work will not be confined to the Glasgow area.
▪ It is not confined to the area touched but shoots along the entire distribution of the nerve branch.
▪ Anderson very carefully demonstrated the flight schools procedure for getting into and out of confined areas.
▪ The company, which employs 70 staff, say work goes on as usual, the fire was confined to a storage area.
▪ His work was not confined to this one area, however.
▪ At the touch of a button a huge gate opens and I am confined in a small area between fences.
▪ Commercially viable deposits of lignite were confined to the area around Lough Neagh in the early 1980s.
attention
▪ The mean velocity also varies vertically, and we shall confine attention to two-dimensional flow.
▪ The project does not intend itself to collect actual papers and confines its attentions to non-governmental records only.
bed
▪ He suspected she could have wished for nothing better than to have him confined to bed and reliant on her care.
▪ Throughout the crisis of 1931, however, he was confined to bed after an operation.
▪ Many such programmes are unnecessarily harsh and increase isolation by confining the patient to bed.
▪ His heart was not strong either, and by the end of the month he was confined to his bed.
▪ Perhaps Mrs Longhill had already written during the days Ruth had been confined to bed.
case
▪ The rule is not confined to the case of adjacent freeholders.
▪ Mr Straw will also reintroduce the mode of trial bill restricting the right to trial by jury in confined cases.
▪ However, it seems that the principle is not confined to such cases.
discussion
▪ Here I propose to confine my discussion to the contemporary debate surrounding the electoral system as an electoral system.
▪ They are confined to discussions of a very general nature and to providing the resources necessary for an efficient service.
▪ Other forms of taxation may be introduced as well, but for the sake of simplicity we will confine our discussion to income taxation.
home
▪ This has a twin aim of befriending and loving those who are confined to their home all day every day.
▪ Older people are prone to ill-health, which often confines them to their homes.
▪ She suffered from arthritis and was largely confined to her home.
▪ Women were confined to the home behind blackened windows and could not take jobs.
▪ She suffers from arthritis in her hip which keeps her confined to her home in the town of Maesteg.
▪ We pray for those who are confined to their homes for long periods.
hospital
▪ He held back at first, but only until she was confined in the hospital at Leyden.
▪ I confined it to a hospital tank for two weeks and treated it with Aquarian Whitespot Remedy.
▪ I fear, however, that Woodward's vocation would have been better exercised if he had confined himself to hospital portering.
question
▪ He should confine himself to the questions put to him.
▪ Doctrinal issues were never ventilated, and the dispute was confined to questions of legal rights and political jurisdiction.
▪ This internal dialogue will not be confined to technical questions framed within the discipline.
▪ We have confined ourselves to the question of power.
▪ Argument before the House of Lords in B's appeal and the judgments were confined to the certified question.
role
▪ Charles was confined to a walk-on role.
wheelchair
▪ Pauline Paul was confined to a wheelchair as calcium drained from her bones.
▪ He was confined to a wheelchair after that, and the confinement contributed to the diminishing of his body and spirit.
▪ She was discharged from hospital and went home, but was confined to a wheelchair, as she could not walk.
▪ Having been confined to a wheelchair for 18 years I had been in similar situations to this.
▪ She is confined to a wheelchair and her sight is badly impaired.
▪ It developed into rheumatoid arthritis, but being confined to a wheelchair didn't stop Jackie marrying and bringing up three children.
▪ In February this year, the pain grew so much that she was confined to a wheelchair.
▪ The Londoner was paralysed and is confined to a wheelchair.
work
▪ We are not confining ourselves to small-animal work.
■ VERB
seem
▪ Criticism of the war seems to have been confined to a few individuals.
▪ The pope seems to have confined himself to insisting on the prohibition of lay investiture.
▪ The house longhorn beetle is another insect pest which seems to be confined to parts of Hampshire and south-west Surrey.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be confined to sb/sth
▪ A corporate role could just be confined to the provision of specialist services, such as marketing research and specialist advertising advice.
▪ All non-managerial personnel belong to the same union, but the privilege of membership is confined to regular workers.
▪ Even the cities were secured by the settlers: native people were confined to rented property in peripheral townships.
▪ However, its benefits were confined to those already holding land, and it did nothing to relieve the problem of landlessness.
▪ Pauline Paul was confined to a wheelchair as calcium drained from her bones.
▪ The blue-chip market is confined to a very limited number of names.
▪ They also will be confined to base, except for official business in town.
▪ Typically, the patient remains conscious if the disturbance is confined to one hemisphere.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ All the illegal immigrants were confined to a small island in the harbour.
▪ Brett was eventually confined in a psychiatric hospital, where he committed suicide.
▪ Rebel troops have confined their attacks mainly to the southern part of the country.
▪ The boy had been confined in a dark narrow room from early childhood by his parents.
▪ The judge has confined the jury to their hotel until after the verdict.
▪ The report confines itself to known and verifiable facts.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Active volcanism at any one time is normally confined to a limited number of centres within a particular cluster.
▪ Both amphibians and reptiles are paralyzed by cold, and are therefore confined to the temperate zones and tropics.
▪ It has been confined to an interpretation of the specific regulations.
▪ Lord did not confine his ventures to cricket.
▪ Significantly, this new prosperity is not confined to the business elite or even the emerging middle class.
▪ The occurrence of violent confrontations on campuses and on the streets was no longer primarily confined to the summer months.
▪ The second assumption is also valid if we confine the analysis to a reasonable range of operations.
▪ While they ate, the conversation was confined to business.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Confine

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.]

Where your gloomy bounds Confine with heaven.
--Milton.

Bewixt heaven and earth and skies there stands a place. Confining on all three.
--Dryden.

Confine

Confine \Con"fine\, n.

  1. Common boundary; border; limit; -- used chiefly in the plural.

    Events that came to pass within the confines of Judea.
    --Locke.

    And now in little space The confines met of empyrean heaven, And of this world.
    --Milton.

    On the confines of the city and the Temple.
    --Macaulay.

  2. Apartment; place of restraint; prison. [Obs.]

    Confines, wards, and dungeons.
    --Shak.

    The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine.
    --Shak.

Confine

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 limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close.

Now let not nature's hand Keep the wild flood confined! let order die!
--Shak.

He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of rhyme.
--Dryden.

To be confined, to be in childbed.

Syn: To bound; limit; restrain; imprison; immure; inclose; circumscribe; restrict.

Related phrases:
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
confine

c.1400, "boundary, limit" (usually as confines), from Old French confins "boundaries," from Medieval Latin confines, from Latin confinium (plural confinia) "boundary, limit," from confine, neuter of confinis "bordering on, having the same boundaries," from com- "with" (see com-) + finis "an end" (see finish (v.)).

confine

1520s, "to border on," from Middle French confiner, from confins (n.); see confine (n.). Sense of "keeping within limits" is from 1590s. Related: Confined; confining.

Wiktionary
confine

n. limit. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To restrict; to keep within bounds; to shut or keep in a limited space or are

  1. 2 To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; followed by ''on'' or ''with''.

WordNet
confine

  1. v. restrict or confine, "I limit you to two visits to the pub a day" [syn: limit, circumscribe]

  2. place limits on (extent or access); "restrict the use of this parking lot"; "limit the time you can spend with your friends" [syn: restrict, restrain, trammel, limit, bound, throttle]

  3. prevent from leaving or from being removed

  4. close in or confine [syn: enclose, hold in]

  5. deprive of freedom; take into confinement [syn: detain] [ant: free]

  6. to close within bounds, limit or hold back from movement; "This holds the local until the express passengers change trains"; "About a dozen animals were held inside the stockade"; "The illegal immigrants were held at a detention center"; "The terrorists held the journalists for ransom" [syn: restrain, hold]

Wikipedia
Confine

Confine is a village (curazia) located in San Marino. It belongs to the municipality ( castello) of Chiesanuova. Its name, in Italian language, means " border".

Usage examples of "confine".

From 1868 until his death in 1892 he was confined with seventy of his followers in the penal colony of Acca on the Mediterranean coast.

All during the outbound journey he snuggled within the confines of the Salyut living quarters as if it were a cocoon woven of steel and aerogel and glass within which struggled a caterpillar named Jimmy Poole.

Particularly instructive and well reported is the instance of bear cult of the Ainu of Japan, a Caucasoid race that entered and settled Japan centuries earlier than the Mongoloid Japanese, and are confined today to the northern islands, Hokkaido and Sakhalin -- the latter now, of course, in Russian hands.

Inside the confines of an Earth-type structure, the immense army of Elatus Albus venusium stirred in unison.

Perhaps alone of the Algonkin tribes the Shawnees confined it to one totem, but it is remarkable that the greatest of their prophets, Elskataway, brother of Tecumseh, was not a member of this clan.

But now that it looked certain the Dyson aliens had been confined, shipboard speculation was heavily focused on the reason.

Some said he was not confined to the prison at all but went abroad at night.

The Cuban anolis is one of a large family of lizards, all of which are confined to America and the West Indian islands.

Selene pulled the damp cloth of her white spencer, a sort of antebellum blouse, away from her neck and tried to blow inside the steamy confines of her garment, to no avail.

At the same time, the Archaea could no longer be confined against their will in the cryptoendolitic world.

It fell on an evening of blizzard, when everyone was confined to the hall and Joscelin came in shivering from the outdoors with an armload of wood for the cookstove.

Not as good as the forests of Germania, but far better than the confines of a ludus or even a luxurious villa.

Before the Ashura incident, attacks by Shiites against Israelis were sporadic and confined largely to tiny splinter factions.

He followed them down the ladder to the deck and herded them to the cage where Krause and Asoka were confined.

Malayan animals are found on the confines of Burmah, and even extending into Assam, it is probable that this species may be discovered in Tenasserim.