Detain vs Restrict - What's the difference?
detain | restrict |
Keep (someone) from proceeding by holding them back or making claims on their attention.
To put under custody.
To keep back or from; to withhold.
* Jeremy Taylor
To restrain within bounds; to limit; to confine; as, to restrict worlds to a particular meaning; to restrict a patient to a certain diet.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=September 28
, author=Jon Smith
, title=Valencia 1 - 1 Chelsea
, work=BBC Sport
(specifically, mathematics) To consider (a function) as defined on a subset of its original domain.
As verbs the difference between detain and restrict
is that detain is keep (someone) from proceeding by holding them back or making claims on their attention while restrict is to restrain within bounds; to limit; to confine; as, to restrict worlds to a particular meaning; to restrict a patient to a certain diet.As an adjective restrict is
(obsolete) restricted.detain
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(en verb)- Detain not the wages of the hireling.
restrict
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(en verb)citation, page= , passage=It was no less than Valencia deserved after dominating possession in the final 20 minutes although Chelsea defended resolutely and restricted the Spanish side to shooting from long range.}}
- If we restrict sine to , we can define its inverse.