Restrict vs Straiten - What's the difference?
restrict | straiten |
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.
To make strait; to narrow or confine to a smaller space.
(senseid) To restrict or diminish, especially financially.
* 1662 , , Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 67:
As verbs the difference between restrict and straiten
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 straiten is misspelling of lang=en.As an adjective restrict
is restricted.restrict
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Verb
(en verb)citation, page= , passage=It was no less than Valencia deserved after dominating possession in the final 20 minutes although Chelsea defended resolutely and restricted the Spanish side to shooting from long range.}}
- If we restrict sine to , we can define its inverse.
Synonyms
* (to restrain within bounds) limit, bound, circumscribe, withstrain, restrain, repress, curb, coerceAnagrams
* *straiten
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Verb
(en verb)- The channel straitened the river through the town, made it flow faster, and caused more flooding upstream.
- "And the reason why Birds'' are ''Oviparous'' and ''lay Eggs , but do not bring forth their yong alive, is, because there might be more plenty of them also, and that neither the Birds of prey, the Serpent nor the Fowler, should streighten their generations too much."
- Rising costs put those on fixed incomes in straitened circumstances.