Confined vs Finite - What's the difference?
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(confine)
not free to move
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 adjectives the difference between confined and finite
is that confined is not free to move while finite is having an end or limit; constrained by bounds.As a verb confined
is past tense of confine.confined
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Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)confine
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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
