Confine vs Periphery - What's the difference?

Confine is a related term of periphery.

is stale.

the outside boundary, parts or surface of something.

(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.

(en noun)

Limit.

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

(wikipedia periphery)

(peripheries)

The outside boundary, parts or surface of something.

''The suburbs are a city's periphery

A first-rank administrative division of Greece, subdivided in provinces.

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