Sheltered vs Confined - What's the difference?
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Protected, as from wind or weather.
:The boat was much safer, during the storm, in the sheltered cove.
(Of a person) who grew up being overprotected by parents or other guardians; often implies a lack of social skills, worldly experience, etc.
(shelter)
(confine)
not free to move
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
Sheltered is a related term of confined.
As adjectives the difference between sheltered and confined
is that sheltered is protected, as from wind or weather while confined is not free to move.As verbs the difference between sheltered and confined
is that sheltered is (shelter) while confined is (confine).sheltered
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Adjective
(en adjective)Verb
(head)confined
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Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)confine
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(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.