Margin vs Confine - What's the difference?
margin | confine | Synonyms |
(typography) The edge of the paper that remains blank.
The edge or border of any flat surface.
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(figuratively) The edge defining inclusion in or exclusion from of a set or group.
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A difference between results, characteristics, scores.
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A permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits.
(finance) The yield or profit; the selling price minus the cost of production.
(finance) Collateral security deposited with a broker to secure him from loss on contracts entered into by him on behalf of his principial, as in the speculative buying and selling of stocks, wheat, etc.
To restrict; to keep within bounds; to shut or keep in a limited space or area.
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; followed by on'' or ''with .
* Milton
* Dryden
Margin is a synonym of confine.
As a noun margin
is (typography) the edge of the paper that remains blank.As a verb margin
is to add a to.As an adjective confine is
stale.margin
English
(wikipedia margin)Noun
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- The lobule margins , furthermore, are arched away from the lobe, with the consequence that (when fully inflated) the abaxial leaf surface forms the interior lining of the lobule.
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- As far as space is concerned, Mary Lamb finds herself at the farthest margin of society - among tramps - when the novel begins.
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- margin of error
Derived terms
* extensive margin * intensive margin * gross margin * margin call * margin of error * safety marginExternal links
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Verb
(confin)- Now let not nature's hand / Keep the wild flood confined ! let order die!
- He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of rhyme.
- Where your gloomy bounds / Confine with heaven
- Betwixt heaven and earth and skies there stands a place / Confining on all three.
