Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation Mathematics limit
from The Century Dictionary.
- A simplified spelling of
limb . - noun An obsolete but historically more correct spelling of
limb .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A limb.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mathematics
limit
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Examples
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I think there may be some confusion in translating the Spanish word limón, which means lime in Spanish, into the English word lemon.
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He said from the beginning he believed in term limits (the whole Class of ‘94 did, remember?) and wouldn’t run for more than three.
Lance Mannion: 2010
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He said from the beginning he believed in term limits (the whole Class of ‘94 did, remember?) and wouldn’t run for more than three.
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But Bourbon, who might have expected every thing to which an ambitious mind can afpire, from the doating fondnefs of a woman who governed her fon and the kingdom, incapable of imitating Louifa in her fudden tranfition from hate to love, or of meanly counterfeit - ing apafiion for one who had fo long purfued 'lim'with unprovoked malice, rejected the match with difdain, and turned the propofal into ridicule.
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"Brer Fox, he clum, en Brer Rabbit, he push, twel, sho '' nuff, Brer Fox got whar he kin grab de lowmos 'lim's, en dar he wuz!
Nights With Uncle Remus Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation Joel Chandler Harris 1878
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"Brer Fox start down, en he git 'long mighty well twel he come ter de lowmos 'lim's, en den w'en he git dar he can't come down no furder,
Nights With Uncle Remus Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation Joel Chandler Harris 1878
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"Brer Fox sat dar on de lowmos 'lim's en look lak he skeer'd.
Nights With Uncle Remus Joel Chandler Harris 1878
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"Brer Fox sat dar on de lowmos 'lim's en look lak he skeer'd.
Nights With Uncle Remus Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation Joel Chandler Harris 1878
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"Brer Fox start down, en he git 'long mighty well twel he come ter de lowmos 'lim's, en den w'en he git dar he can't come down no furder,
Nights With Uncle Remus Joel Chandler Harris 1878
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"Brer Fox, he clum, en Brer Rabbit, he push, twel, sho '' nuff, Brer Fox got whar he kin grab de lowmos 'lim's, en dar he wuz!
Nights With Uncle Remus Joel Chandler Harris 1878
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