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Equip vs Restrict - What's the difference?

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Equip is a related term of restrict.


As verbs the difference between equip and restrict

is that equip is to furnish for service, or against a need or exigency; to fit out; to supply with whatever is necessary to efficient action in any way; to provide with arms or an armament, stores, munitions, rigging, etc; -- said especially of ships and of troops dryden 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.

equip

English

(Webster 1913)

Verb

  • To furnish for service, or against a need or exigency; to fit out; to supply with whatever is necessary to efficient action in any way; to provide with arms or an armament, stores, munitions, rigging, etc.; -- said especially of ships and of troops. Dryden.
  • Gave orders for equipping a considerable fleet. Ludlow.
  • To dress up; to array; accouter.
  • The country are led astray in following the town, and equipped in a ridiculous habit, when they fancy themselves in the height of the mode. Addison.
  • To prepare (someone) with a skill
  • Anagrams

    * (l), ----

    restrict

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To restrain within bounds; to limit; to confine; as, to restrict worlds to a particular meaning; to restrict a patient to a certain diet.
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  • (specifically, mathematics) To consider (a function) as defined on a subset of its original domain.
  • If we restrict sine to [-\frac\pi2,\frac\pi2], we can define its inverse.

    Synonyms

    * (to restrain within bounds) limit, bound, circumscribe, withstrain, restrain, repress, curb, coerce

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Restricted.
  • Anagrams

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