Limit vs. Limited
Difference Between Limit and Limited
Limit➦
The point, edge, or line beyond which something ends, may not go, or is not allowed
the 12-mile fishing limit.
the limit of my patience.
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Limited➦
Confined or restricted within certain limits
has only limited experience.
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Limit➦
limits The boundary surrounding a specific area; bounds
within the city limits.
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Limited➦
Not attaining the highest goals or achievement
a limited success.
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Limit➦
Something that restricts or restrains; a restraint
The child needs to have limits put on his behavior.
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Limited➦
Having only mediocre talent or range of ability
a popular but limited actor.
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Limit➦
The greatest or least amount, number, or extent allowed or possible
a withdrawal limit of $200.
no minimum age limit.
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Limited➦
Having governmental or ruling powers restricted by enforceable limitations, as a constitution or a legislative body
limited monarchy.
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Limit➦
(Games) The largest amount which may be bet at one time in games of chance.
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Limited➦
Abbr. Ltd. Of or relating to a limited company.
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Limit➦
A number or point L that is approached by a function f(x) as x approaches a if, for every positive number ε, there exists a number δ such that |f(x)-L| < ε if |x-a| < δ.
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Limited➦
Of, relating to, or being transportation facilities, such as trains or buses, that make few stops and carry relatively few passengers.
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Limit➦
A number or point L that is approached by a sequence bn if, for every positive number ε, there exists a number N such that |bn-L| < ε if n > N. Also called limit point.
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Limited➦
A limited train or bus.
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Limit➦
(Informal) One that is intolerable, remarkable, or extreme in some other way
"That's the limit!" the babysitter exclaimed after the child spilled a glass of milk.
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Limited➦
simple past tense and past participle of limit
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Limit➦
To confine or restrict with a limit
Let's limit the discussion to what is doable. The offer limits us to three for a dollar.
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Limited➦
With certain (often specified) limits placed upon it.
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Limit➦
A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
There are several existing limits to executive power.
Two drinks is my limit tonight.
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Limited➦
Restricted, small, few, not plentiful.
There are limited places available. Enrol now or you will miss out.
I have a limited understanding of quantum physics.
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Limit➦
(mathematics) A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit and the lower limit of a sequence: if the upper and lower limits are different, then the sequence has no limit (i.e., does not converge).
The sequence of reciprocals has zero as its limit.
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Limited➦
(rail) An express train that only halts at a limited number of stops.
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Limit➦
(mathematics) Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
Category theory defines a very general concept of limit.
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Limited➦
Confined within limits; narrow; circumscribed; restricted; as, our views of nature are very limited.
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Limit➦
(category theory) The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.
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Limited➦
small in range or scope;
limited war
a limited success
a limited circle of friends
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Limit➦
(poker) Fixed limit.
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Limited➦
subject to limits or subjected to limits
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Limit➦
The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
the limit of a walk, of a town, or of a country
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Limited➦
including only a part
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Limit➦
(obsolete) The space or thing defined by limits.
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Limited➦
mediocre
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Limit➦
(obsolete) That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
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Limited➦
not excessive
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Limit➦
(obsolete) A restriction; a check or curb; a hindrance.
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Limited➦
having a specific function or scope;
a special (or specific) role in the mission
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Limit➦
A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
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Limited➦
not unlimited;
a limited list of choices
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Limit➦
(cycling) The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race.
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Limit➦
A person who is exasperating, intolerable, astounding, etc.
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Limit➦
(poker) Being a fixed limit game.
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Limit➦
(transitive) To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries.
We need to limit the power of the executive.
I'm limiting myself to two drinks tonight.
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Limit➦
To have a limit in a particular set.
The sequence limits on the point a.
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Limit➦
(obsolete) To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region.
a limiting friar
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Limit➦
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.
As eager of the chase, the maidBeyond the forest's verdant limits strayed.
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Limit➦
The space or thing defined by limits.
The archdeacon hath divided itInto three limits very equally.
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Limit➦
That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
The dateless limit of thy dear exile.
The limit of your lives is out.
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Limit➦
A restriction; a check; a curb; a hindrance.
I prithee, give no limits to my tongue.
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Limit➦
A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic; a differentia.
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Limit➦
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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Limit➦
To apply a limit to, or set a limit for; to terminate, circumscribe, or restrict, by a limit or limits; as, to limit the acreage of a crop; to limit the issue of paper money; to limit one's ambitions or aspirations; to limit the meaning of a word.
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Limit➦
To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region; as, a limiting friar.
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Limit➦
the greatest possible degree of something;
what he did was beyond the bounds of acceptable behavior
to the limit of his ability
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Limit➦
final or latest limiting point
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Limit➦
the boundary of a specific area
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Limit➦
as far as something can go
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Limit➦
the mathematical value toward which a function goes as the independent variable approaches infinity
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Limit➦
the greatest amount of something that is possible or allowed;
there are limits on the amount you can bet
it is growing rapidly with no limitation in sight
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Limit➦
place limits on (extent or access);
restrict the use of this parking lot
limit the time you can spend with your friends
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Limit➦
restrict or confine,
I limit you to two visits to the pub a day
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Limit➦
decide upon or fix definitely;
fix the variables
specify the parameters
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