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Restriction vs Restraining - What's the difference?

restriction | restraining |

As nouns the difference between restriction and restraining

is that restriction is the act of restricting, or the state of being restricted while restraining is the act by which someone or something is restrained.

As a verb restraining is

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restriction

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of restricting, or the state of being restricted.
  • A regulation or limitation that restricts.

    • Derived terms

    * restriction enzyme

    restraining

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which someone or something is restrained.
  • * George Meredith
    • She had the privilege of a soul beyond our minor rules and restrainings to speak her wishes to the true wife of a mock husband—no husband; less a husband than this shadow of a woman a wife, she said;