# Limit vs Arrow - What's the difference?

limit | arrow |

## As nouns the difference between limit and arrow

is that limit is limit (restriction) while arrow is a projectile consisting of a shaft, a point and a tail with stabilizing fins that is shot from a bow.

## As a verb arrow is

to move swiftly and directly (like an arrow).

(obsolete).

# limit

## English

### Etymology 1

From (etyl), from (etyl), from (etyl) .

#### Noun

(en noun)
• A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
• There are several existing limits to executive power.
Two drinks is my limit tonight.
• * 1839 , (Charles Dickens), Nicholas Nickleby , chapter 21:
• It is the conductor which communicates to the inhabitants of regions beyond its limit ,
• * 1922 , , Ulysses , episode 17:
• Ever he would wander, selfcompelled, to the extreme limit of his cometary orbit, beyond the fixed stars and variable suns and telescopic planets, astronomical waifs and strays, to the extreme boundary of space,
• * 2012 March 6, Dan McCrum, Nicole Bullock and Guy Chazan, Financial Times , “Utility buyout loses power in shale gas revolution”:
• At the time, there seemed to be no limit to the size of ever-larger private equity deals, with banks falling over each other to arrange financing on generous terms and to invest money from their own private equity arms.
• (mathematics) A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit and the lower limit of a sequence: if the upper and lower limits are different, then the sequence has no limit (i.e., does not converge).
• The sequence of reciprocals has zero as its limit.
• (mathematics) Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
• Category theory defines a very general concept of limit.
• (category theory) Given diagram F'' : ''J'' → ''C'', a cone (''L'', ''φ'') from ''L'' ∈ Ob(''C'') to ''F'' is the ''limit'' of ''F'' if it has the universal property that for any other cone (''N'', ''ψ'') from ''N'' ∈ Ob(''C'') to ''F'' there is a unique morphism ''u'' : ''N'' → ''L'' such that for all ''X'' ∈ Ob(''J ), $\phi_X \circ u = \psi_X$.
• (poker) Short for fixed limit.
• The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
• the limit of a walk, of a town, or of a country
• * Alexander Pope
• As eager of the chase, the maid / Beyond the forest's verdant limits strayed.
• (obsolete) The space or thing defined by limits.
• * Shakespeare
• The archdeacon hath divided it / Into three limits very equally.
• (obsolete) That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
• * Shakespeare
• the dateless limit of thy dear exile
• * Shakespeare
• The limit of your lives is out.
• (obsolete) A restriction; a check or curb; a hindrance.
• * Shakespeare
• I prithee, give no limits to my tongue.
• (logic, metaphysics) A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
• ##### Synonyms
* (restriction) bound, boundary, limitation, restriction
##### Derived terms
* age limit * central limit theorem * city limits * elastic limit * in the limit * limit down * limit up * limitation * limitless * lower limit * outer limit * the sky is the limit * to the limit * time limit * unlimited * upper limit
##### Descendants
* German: (l)

* bound * function

(-)
• (poker) Being a fixed limit game.
• ### Etymology 2

From (etyl) ; see noun.

#### Verb

(en verb)
• To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound.
• *
• [The Chinese government] has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.
• (mathematics) To have a limit in a particular set.
• (obsolete) To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region.
• ##### Synonyms
* (restrict) cap; restrict; withstrain

# arrow

## English

### Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) earh, (m), (m), from (etyl) .

#### Noun

(en noun)
• A projectile consisting of a shaft, a point and a tail with stabilizing fins that is shot from a bow.
• *
• Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.
• A sign or symbol used to indicate a direction (e.g. $\to$).
• (lb) A directed edge.
• A dart.
• ##### Synonyms
* (projectile) streal * (in graph theory) arc, directed edge
##### Derived terms
* arrowsmith * arrow-finger * arrowhead * arrow of time / time's arrow * arrowroot * arrowy * straight as an arrow

#### Verb

(en verb)
• To move swiftly and directly (like an arrow)
• To let fly swiftly and directly
• * {{quote-news, year=2012
• , date=April 9 , author=Mandeep Sanghera , title=Tottenham 1 - 2 Norwich , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Jermain Defoe dinked in an equaliser and Gareth Bale hit the crossbar for the hosts before Elliott Bennett arrowed in Norwich's winner. }}

### Etymology 2

Representing pronunciation.

#### Contraction

(en-cont)
• (obsolete)
• * 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, page 153:
• though he hath lived here this many years, I don't believe there is arrow a servant in the house ever saw the colour of his money.