confine

Sınırlamak, hapsetmek

To keep someone or something within certain limits or in a particular place.

• The doctor advised her to confine herself to bed rest.
• The fire was confined to the kitchen.
• Please confine your comments to the topic at hand.
• Early astronomers attempted to confine their observations to visible celestial bodies before the invention of radio telescopes expanded their scope.
• Ethical guidelines confine researchers to obtaining informed consent from all participants before conducting experimental psychological studies.
• Medieval cartographers tended to confine their maps to known territories, leaving unexplored regions blank or filled with speculative illustrations.

Eş anlamlılar: restrict, limit, restrain, imprison, enclose

Zıt anlamlılar: free, release, liberate, expand

Sınır, hudut

A boundary or limit (usually used in plural: confines).

• They stayed within the confines of the resort.
• The research explored the confines of human knowledge.

Eş anlamlılar: boundary, limit, border, edge