Restrict vs Confine - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between restrict and confine

is that 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 while confine is to restrict; to keep within bounds; to shut or keep in a limited space or area.

As an adjective restrict

is restricted.

As a noun confine is

limit.

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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confine

English

Verb

(confin)

To restrict; to keep within bounds; to shut or keep in a limited space or area.

* Shakespeare

Now let not nature's hand / Keep the wild flood confined ! let order die!

* Dryden

He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of rhyme.

To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; followed by on'' or ''with .

* Milton

Where your gloomy bounds / Confine with heaven

* Dryden

Betwixt heaven and earth and skies there stands a place / Confining on all three.

Noun

(en noun)

Limit.

Synonyms

* (limit) border, bound, limit English heteronyms ----