restrict
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin restrictus, perfect passive participle of restringō (“draw back tightly; restrain, restrict”), from re- (“back, again”) + stringō (“press, tighten, compress”). Doublet of ristretto as an adjective.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ɹɪˈstɹɪkt/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪkt
Verb
[edit]restrict (third-person singular simple present restricts, present participle restricting, simple past and past participle restricted)
- To restrain within boundaries; to limit; to confine
- After suffering diahrroea, the patient was restricted to a diet of rice, cold meat, and yoghurt.
- 2011 September 28, Jon Smith, “Valencia 1 - 1 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport[1], archived from the original on 4 February 2023:
- 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.
- 2026 March 20, “US judge blocks Pentagon’s restrictions on press after New York Times lawsuit”, in The Guardian[2], archived from the original on 21 March 2026:
- In its lawsuit, the Times said the policy unlawfully restricts essential newsgathering techniques and gives the Pentagon “unfettered” discretion to revoke passes, permitting it to impose the type of “viewpoint-based” press restrictions forbidden by the constitution.
- (specifically, mathematics) To consider (a function) as defined on a subset of its original domain.
- If we restrict sine to , we can define its inverse.
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Synonyms
[edit]- (to restrain within bounds): limit, bound, circumscribe, withstrain, restrain, repress, curb, coerce, quarantine (fig.)
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]to restrain within bounds — see also limit
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to consider (a function) as defined on a smaller domain
Adjective
[edit]restrict (comparative more restrict, superlative most restrict)
- (obsolete) Restricted.
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