Limit vs Prevent - What's the difference?
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A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
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(mathematics) A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit and the lower limit of a sequence: if the upper and lower limits are different, then the sequence has no limit (i.e., does not converge).
(mathematics) Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
(category theory) Given diagram F'' : ''J'' → ''C'', a cone (''L'', ''φ'') from ''L'' ∈ Ob(''C'') to ''F'' is the ''limit'' of ''F'' if it has the universal property that for any other cone (''N'', ''ψ'') from ''N'' ∈ Ob(''C'') to ''F'' there is a unique morphism ''u'' : ''N'' → ''L'' such that for all ''X'' ∈ Ob(''J ), .
(poker) Short for fixed limit.
The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
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(obsolete) The space or thing defined by limits.
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(obsolete) That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
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(obsolete) A restriction; a check or curb; a hindrance.
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(logic, metaphysics) A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
(poker) Being a fixed limit game.
To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound.
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(mathematics) To have a limit in a particular set.
(obsolete) To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region.
To stop; to keep (from happening).
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(obsolete) To come before; to precede.
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(obsolete) To outdo, surpass.
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(obsolete) To be beforehand with; to anticipate.
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In transitive terms the difference between limit and prevent
is that limit is to restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound while prevent is to stop; to keep (from happening).As a noun limit
is a restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.As an adjective limit
is being a fixed limit game.limit
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Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- There are several existing limits to executive power.
- Two drinks is my limit tonight.
- It is the conductor which communicates to the inhabitants of regions beyond its limit ,
- Ever he would wander, selfcompelled, to the extreme limit of his cometary orbit, beyond the fixed stars and variable suns and telescopic planets, astronomical waifs and strays, to the extreme boundary of space,
“Utility buyout loses power in shale gas revolution”:
- At the time, there seemed to be no limit to the size of ever-larger private equity deals, with banks falling over each other to arrange financing on generous terms and to invest money from their own private equity arms.
- The sequence of reciprocals has zero as its limit.
- Category theory defines a very general concept of limit.
- the limit of a walk, of a town, or of a country
- As eager of the chase, the maid / Beyond the forest's verdant limits strayed.
- The archdeacon hath divided it / Into three limits very equally.
- the dateless limit of thy dear exile
- The limit of your lives is out.
- I prithee, give no limits to my tongue.
Synonyms
* (restriction) bound, boundary, limitation, restrictionDerived terms
* age limit * central limit theorem * city limits * elastic limit * in the limit * limit down * limit up * limitation * limitless * lower limit * outer limit * the sky is the limit * to the limit * time limit * unlimited * upper limitDescendants
* German: (l)See also
* bound * functionAdjective
(-)Etymology 2
From (etyl) ; see noun.Verb
(en verb)- [The Chinese government] has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.
Synonyms
* (restrict) cap; restrict; withstrainExternal links
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Verb
(en verb)- I brushed my teeth to prevent them from going yellow.
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- ‘I think you must be mad, and she shall not have a glimpse of it while I'm here to prevent !’
- We which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
- We pray thee that thy grace may always prevent and follow us.
- Then had I come, preventing Sheba's queen.
- With that he put his spurres vnto his steed, / With speare in rest, and toward him did fare, / Like shaft out of a bow preuenting speed.
- their ready guilt preventing thy commands