confines 的 2 个定义
con·fined, con·fin·ing.
- to enclose within bounds; limit or restrict: She confined her remarks to errors in the report. Confine your efforts to finishing the book.
- to shut or keep in; prevent from leaving a place because of imprisonment, illness, discipline, etc.: For that offense he was confined to quarters for 30 days.
- Usually confines. a boundary or bound; limit; border; frontier.
- Often confines. region; territory.
- Archaic. confinement.
- Obsolete. a place of confinement; prison.
confines 近义词
boundaries
更多confines例句
- By that time, SantaCon had already spread beyond the narrow confines of a few prankster-explorers.
- But the Sketchbook Project confines itself to restricting only submissions that might endanger the staff.
- It exists only in his memory, so he retreats into the confines of his mind.
- Within the confines of the Internet, this little girl exists only to make us feel better about ourselves.
- It takes an effort to think beyond the clear culture-war confines of the case.
- As long as he is moderately peaceful and confines his wandering brain to gesticulations and speech, he is let alone by the police.
- For no caution is more truly kind than which confines servants strictly to their own sphere.
- And they circumcised all the children whom they found in the confines of Israel that were uncircumcised: and they did valiantly.
- And he made his brother, Simon, governor, from the borders of Tyre even to the confines of Egypt.
- This section is not expressly confined to wandering persons, but the marginal note confines it to the "occasional poor."