Confine vs Constraint - What's the difference?
confine | constraint |
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
Something that constrains.
(mathematics) A condition that a solution to an optimization problem must satisfy.
A restriction.
As nouns the difference between confine and constraint
is that confine is limit while constraint is something that constrains.As a verb confine
is to restrict; to keep within bounds; to shut or keep in a limited space or area.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.