Limit vs Rag - What's the difference?
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A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
* 1839 , (Charles Dickens), Nicholas Nickleby , chapter 21:
* 1922 , , Ulysses , episode 17:
* 2012 March 6, Dan McCrum, Nicole Bullock and Guy Chazan, Financial Times ,
(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.
* Alexander Pope
(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.
(in the plural) Tattered clothes.
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (Dryden)
A piece of old cloth; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred, a tatter.
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* (and other bibliographic particulars) (Fuller)
A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin.
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A ragged edge in metalworking.
(nautical, slang) A sail, or any piece of canvas.
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (Lowell)
(slang, pejorative) A newspaper, magazine.
(rfc-sense) (poker slang) A card that appears to help no one.
(rfc-sense) (poker slang) A low card.
A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture; ragstone.
* 2003 , (Peter Ackroyd), The Clerkenwell Tales , page 1:
To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.
To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.
To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.
To drive a car or another vehicle in a hard, fast or unsympathetic manner.
To tease or torment, especially at a university; to bully, to haze.
(dated) A prank or practical joke.
(UK, Ireland) A society run by university students for the purpose of charitable fundraising.
(obsolete, US) An informal dance party featuring music played by African-American string bands.
A ragtime song, dance or piece of music.
As nouns the difference between limit and rag
is that limit is limit (restriction) while rag is rye (secale cereale ).limit
English
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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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Cognate with Swedish ragg.Noun
(en noun)- Virtue, though in rags , will keep me warm.
- Cowls, hoods, and habits, with their wearers, tossed, / And fluttered into rags .
- Not having otherwise any rag of legality to cover the shame of their cruelty.
- The other zealous rag is the compositor.
- Upon the proclamation, they all came in, both tag and rag .
- Our ship was a clipper with every rag set.
Derived terms
* on the rag * lose one's rag * ragwort * smell of an oily ragEtymology 2
origin; perhaps the same word as Etymology 1, above.Noun
(en noun)- the three walls around the garden, each one of thirty-three feet, were built out of three layers of stone — pebble stone, flint and rag stone.
Verb
(ragg)Etymology 3
Origin uncertain.Verb
(ragg)Derived terms
* rag the puck * rag onNoun
(en noun)Derived terms
* rag day * rag weekEtymology 4
Perhaps from (ragged). Compare later (ragtime).Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
*References
* Weisenberg, Michael (2000)The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523 ----
