Confine vs Finite - What's the difference?
confine | finite |
To restrict; to keep within bounds; to shut or keep in a limited space or area.
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; followed by on'' or ''with .
* Milton
* Dryden
Having an end or limit; constrained by bounds.
(grammar, as opposed to infinite) limited by person or number.
As a verb confine
is to restrict; to keep within bounds; to shut or keep in a limited space or area.As a noun confine
is limit.As an adjective finite is
having an end or limit; constrained by bounds.confine
English
Verb
(confin)- Now let not nature's hand / Keep the wild flood confined ! let order die!
- He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of rhyme.
- Where your gloomy bounds / Confine with heaven
- Betwixt heaven and earth and skies there stands a place / Confining on all three.
Synonyms
* (limit) border, bound, limit English heteronyms ----finite
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The "goes" in "he goes" is a finite form of a verb