Coffin vs Confine - What's the difference?

coffin | confine |

As a noun coffin

is an oblong closed box in which a dead person is buried.

As a verb coffin

is to place in a coffin.

As an adjective confine is

stale.

coffin

English

(wikipedia coffin)

Alternative forms

* cophin (archaic)

Noun

(en noun)

An oblong closed box in which a dead person is buried.

(obsolete) A basket.

* Wycliffe's Bible

And all ate, and were filled. And they took the reliefs of broken gobbets, twelve coffins full (Matthew 14:20).

A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie.

* Shakespeare

Of the paste a coffin I will rear.

(obsolete) A conical paper bag, used by grocers.

(Nares)

The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone.

(Webster 1913)

Usage notes

The type of coffin with upholstery and a half-open lid (mostly in the United States) is called a casket.

Synonyms

* casket (US)

Derived terms

* coffin bone * coffinlike * coffin nail * coffin ride * coffin ship * encoffin * encoffiner * encoffinment

Verb

(en verb)

To place in a coffin.

* 2007 , (Barbara Everett), "Making and Breaking in Shakespeare's Romances," London Review of Books , 29:6, p. 21:

The chest in which she is coffined washes ashore and is brought to the Lord Cerimon.

Synonyms

* encoffin

confine

English

Verb

(confin)

To restrict; to keep within bounds; to shut or keep in a limited space or area.

* Shakespeare

Now let not nature's hand / Keep the wild flood confined ! let order die!

* Dryden

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

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

* Milton

Where your gloomy bounds / Confine with heaven

* Dryden

Betwixt heaven and earth and skies there stands a place / Confining on all three.

Noun

(en noun)

Limit.

Synonyms

* (limit) border, bound, limit English heteronyms ----