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How to sign: restrict or confine, "I limit you to two visits to the pub a day"
Similiar / Same: confine, circumscribe
Categories: decrease, lessen, minify
Within this category: cap, content, demarcate, hold down, number, ration, restrict
How to sign: the greatest possible degree of something
"what he did was beyond the bounds of acceptable behavior"; "to the limit of his ability";
Similiar / Same: bounds, boundary
Categories: extent
Within this category: knife-edge, thermal barrier, utmost, verge
How to sign: place limits on (extent or access)
"restrict the use of this parking lot"; "limit the time you can spend with your friends";
Similiar / Same: throttle, restrain, trammel, confine, restrict, bound
Categories: check, contain, control, curb, hold, hold in, moderate
Within this category: baffle, clamp down, draw the line, gate, hamper, inhibit, mark off, reduce, restrain, rule, stiffen, tie
How to sign: the mathematical value toward which a function goes as the independent variable approaches infinity
Similiar / Same: limit point, point of accumulation
Categories: indefinite quantity
Within this category: range