confined
IPA: kʌnfˈaɪnd
adjective
- Not free to move.
- Limited; narrow; restricted.
- In childbed.
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Examples of "confined" in Sentences
- He confined the ranges.
- The option confined their choices.
- The show was confined to the studio.
- All the flux is confined to the core.
- The activity was confined to schedule.
- Halon is mildly toxic in confined spaces.
- The elephant is confined to the terai and the foothills.
- The problem of osteoporosis is confined to the skeleton.
- Avoid being in confined areas with smokers: riding in cars, public places, home.
- Kisumu or Port Florence (a term confined to the harbour) is a flourishing town built on a hill overlooking Victoria Nyanza.
- Albert Holland is a psychologist for NASA who's worked with astronauts in confined spaces like the International Space Station.
- But the lessons of Chile's nitrate boom and bust, which helped spur worker rights movements, should not remain confined to the desert.
- Going into what we call confined area landing sites -- CALS -- which is precisely what I was talking about, that last meter of dry land and that rooftop.
- Once a term confined to the personal-speak of high-minded tech geeks and derided by critics as a bogus marketing ploy, cloud computing today is arguably the hottest trend sweeping the information technology industry sector, investors, analysts and entrepreneurs say.
- And it may be true that the "discipline" -- literature as submitted to the protocols and conventions of academic inquiry -- can't remain "confined" to the question of aesthetic beauty, but this is a problem not for literature per se but for the subject "literature" as it is defined within the academic curriculum.