Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To keep or confine within limits. See Synonyms at limit.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To prevent (a person or thing) from passing a certain limit in any kind of action; limit; restrain.
- To attach limitations to (a proposition or conception), so that it shall not apply to all the subjects to which it would otherwise seem to apply: as, a restricted sense of a word.
- Synonyms Repress, etc. (see restrain), hedge in.
Wiktionary
- v. To restrain within bounds; to limit; to confine; as, to restrict worlds to a particular meaning; to restrict a patient to a certain diet.
- v. specifically, mathematics To consider (a function) as defined on a subset of its original domain.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. obsolete Restricted.
- v. To restrain within bounds; to limit; to confine
WordNet 3.0
- v. place limits on (extent or access)
- v. make more specific
- v. place restrictions on
- v. place under restrictions; limit access to
Etymologies
- From Latin restrictus, perfect passive participle of restringō ("draw back tightly; restrain, restrict"), from re- ("back, again") + stringō ("press, tighten, compress"). (Wiktionary)
- Latin restringere, restrict- : re-, re- + stringere, to draw tight; see streig- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“It is for this reason that the 14th Amendment contained a penalty for any state that attempted to once again restrict the vote.”
“Having the confidence to label myself built character, but having the courage not to let that label restrict me took wisdom and insight.”
“It does look as though a bias is occuring that will in legal terms restrict things, but hey that can mean nothing except tie the courts up.”
The Guardian: Cameron's cuts: There are alternatives | Editorial
“Mandatory labels restrict market access for products that do not comply.”
“I've found that it took time, insight and experience to build the confidence to not let labels restrict me.”
“If your terms restrict how high they can bid with their sites, someone else's ad will show up on their site in the spot instead.”
“… banning a game does not in any real terms restrict its availability -- long gone are the days of being able to keep something out of the public's hands simply by keeping it off the shelves.”
“The desire of US companies to "restrict" access to content through DRM has finally bit us.”
“They have many planned ways to "restrict" firearms ownership, using "reasonable" limitations, but these ways, are a smoke screen for what appears to be a real attempt to ban guns entirely.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘restrict’.
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BUDG - general terms
Budgetese - not a sexy topic but a very comprehensive list of words and collocations used in EU circles. Budgeting experts please comment and expand.
heading, across-the-board ..., emergency reserve, frontload, mopping-up, performance reserve, positive margin, negative margin, public finances, structural operat..., administrative ex..., management of EU ... and 657 more...
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CONT - general terms
additionality, audit trail, accounting standards, auditing standards, general audit obj..., a posteriori audit, a priori audit, above board, acceptable error ..., access rights, accountability, accountable entities and 1283 more...
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EN - academic vocabulary
Use these and get promoted
abandon, abandonment, abnormally, abstract, abstraction, abstractly, abstracts, academia, academic, academically, academics, academies and 3119 more...
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EN - eloquence in public speaking
Key words from "The Training of a Public Speaker" by Grenville Kleiser (New York and London, 1920)
beget, imago, Vespasian, languid, studied, judgment, dwindle, artifice, contribute, observe, sonorous, gladiator and 264 more...
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EU Buzz - single words (1+2+3)
1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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The Blacklist
Stop SOPA.
blackout, redact, bowdlerize, censor, remove, conceal, bleach, bleep, blue-pencil, control, edit, excise and 24 more...
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Prosie: Lincoln's Second Inaugural Ad...
(Given Saturday, March 4, 1865, Washington, D.C.)
Fellow-Countrymen:
At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office there is less occasion for an extended a...with all nations, among ourselves, a just and lastin..., cherish, achieve, to do all, for his widow and..., to care for him w..., to bind up the na..., let us strive on ..., with firmness in ..., with charity for all and 169 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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-strict
tightly drawn; limited
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Restrain, Curb or Check
Verbs meaning to restrain, curb or check
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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fbharjo's Words
jumelle, kef, kenspeckle, lautitious, essentic, pilpulistic, impavid, cicurant, clou, chrysostomic, miasma, teleology and 1625 more...
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Constrain
Words related to constrain.
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oroboros Cf. restrain Sep 25, 2010