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Confixed vs Confined - What's the difference?

confixed | confined |

As verbs the difference between confixed and confined

is that confixed is past tense of confix while confined is past tense of confine.

As an adjective confined is

not free to move.

confixed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (confix)

    • confix

    English

    (wikipedia confix)

    Noun

    (es)
  • (linguistics) An affix consisting of a prefix and suffix affixed simultaneously to the root
  • *{{quote-book, 2005, Elizabeth Zeitoun, The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar, chapter=Tsou citation
    • , passage=As is demonstrated by m-as-ku, tens are derived from the confix m- ... -hu. }}
  • (linguistics, rare) An affix which is not divided, and which does not divide a root: thus, a prefix, suffix, or interfix
  • *{{quote-book, 1982, & Philip Luelsdorff, Towards a Language of Linguistics, url=, page=84
    • , passage=22. A PREFIX: a confix which precedes a root.}}

    Synonyms

    *(prefix-suffix unit) circumfix, ambifix

    Coordinate terms

    *(affixes)

    Verb

    (es)
  • (obsolete) To make firm; to fix in a particular place or state
  • *

    • 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 ----