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limits
(encz) | limits,hranice Pavel Machek; Giza |
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offlimits
(mass) | off-limits
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city limits
(encz) | city limits, n: |
delimits
(encz) | delimits,vymezuje v: Zdeněk Brož |
limits to growth
(encz) | limits to growth,limity růstu [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
limits to imports (impose import limits)
(encz) | limits to imports (impose import limits),omezení dovozu [eko.] RNDr.
Pavel Piskač |
off-limits
(encz) | off-limits,zakázaný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Jail limits
(gcide) | Jail \Jail\ (j[=a]l), n. [OE. jaile, gail, gayhol, OF. gaole,
gaiole, jaiole, F. ge[^o]le, LL. gabiola, dim. of gabia cage,
for L. cavea cavity, cage. See Cage.]
A kind of prison; a building for the confinement of persons
held in lawful custody, especially for minor offenses or with
reference to some future judicial proceeding. [Written also
gaol.]
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This jail I count the house of liberty. --Milton.
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Jail delivery, the release of prisoners from jail, either
legally or by violence.
Jail delivery commission. See under Gaol.
Jail fever (Med.), typhus fever, or a disease resembling
it, generated in jails and other places crowded with
people; -- called also hospital fever, and ship fever.
Jail liberties, or Jail limits, a space or district
around a jail within which an imprisoned debtor was, on
certain conditions, allowed to go at large. --Abbott.
Jail lock, a peculiar form of padlock; -- called also
Scandinavian lock.
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off-limits
(gcide) | off-limits \off-limits\ adj.
barred to a designated group; as, the topless bar is
off-lints to military personnel.
Syn: out-of-bounds(predicate).
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Prison limits
(gcide) | Limit \Lim"it\ (l[i^]m"[i^]t), n. [From L. limes, limitis: cf.
F. limite; -or from E. limit, v. See Limit, v. t.]
1. That which terminates, circumscribes, restrains, or
confines; the bound, border, or edge; the utmost extent;
as, the limit of a walk, of a town, of a country; the
limits of human knowledge or endeavor.
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As eager of the chase, the maid
Beyond the forest's verdant limits strayed. --Pope.
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2. The space or thing defined by limits.
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The archdeacon hath divided it
Into three limits very equally. --Shak.
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3. That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period
itself; the full time or extent.
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The dateless limit of thy dear exile. --Shak.
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The limit of your lives is out. --Shak.
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4. A restriction; a check; a curb; a hindrance.
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I prithee, give no limits to my tongue. --Shak.
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5. (Logic & Metaph.) A determining feature; a distinguishing
characteristic; a differentia.
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6. (Math.) A determinate quantity, to which a variable one
continually approaches, and may differ from it by less
than any given difference, but to which, under the law of
variation, the variable can never become exactly
equivalent.
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Elastic limit. See under Elastic.
Prison limits, a definite, extent of space in or around a
prison, within which a prisoner has liberty to go and
come.
Syn: Boundary; border; edge; termination; restriction; bound;
confine.
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city limits
(wn) | city limits
n 1: the limits of the area occupied by a city or town [syn:
city limit, city limits] |
off-limits
(wn) | off-limits
adj 1: barred to a designated group; "that area is off-limits"
[syn: off-limits, out-of-bounds(p)] |
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