Extinguish vs Restrict - What's the difference?
extinguish | restrict |
to put out, as in fire; to end burning; to quench
to destroy or abolish something
* 1668 December 19, , “Mr.'' Alexander Seaton ''contra'' Menzies” in ''The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683),
to obscure or eclipse something
(psychology) to bring about the extinction of a conditioned reflex
(literally) to hunt down (a species) to extinction
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
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, date=September 28
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, title=Valencia 1 - 1 Chelsea
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(specifically, mathematics) To consider (a function) as defined on a subset of its original domain.
As verbs the difference between extinguish and restrict
is that extinguish is to put out, as in fire; to end burning; to quench 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.extinguish
English
Verb
(es)- She extinguished all my hopes.
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- The Pupil after his Pupillarity, had granted a Di?charge to one of the Co-tutors, which did extingui?h the whole Debt of that Co-tutor, and con?equently of all the re?t, they being all correi debendi , lyable by one individual Obligation, which cannot be Di?charged as to one, and ?tand as to all the re?t.
- The rays of the sun were extinguished by the thunder clouds.
Synonyms
* put out, quench, douse * See alsoExternal links
* *restrict
English
Verb
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- If we restrict sine to , we can define its inverse.