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Confined vs Coffin - What's the difference?

confined | coffin |

As verbs the difference between confined and coffin

is that confined is (confine) while coffin is to place in a coffin.

As an adjective confined

is not free to move.

As a noun coffin is

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

confined

English

Verb

(head)
  • (confine)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • not free to move

    • 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 ----

    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