Confine vs Locked - What's the difference?
confine | locked |
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
(lock)
Of a door, etc, that has been locked (with a key).
(Dublin) Very drunk.A Dictionary of Hiberno-English: The Irish Use of English, Terence Patrick Dolan , p.142.
As adjectives the difference between confine and locked
is that confine is stale while locked is of a door, etc, that has been locked (with a key).As a verb locked is
(lock).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.