Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
From Middle English limit, from Old French limit, from oblique stem of Latin līmes, līmit- (“a cross-path or balk between fields, hence a boundary, boundary line or wall, any path or road, border, limit”). Displaced native Old English ġemǣre. Doublet of limes.
From Middle English limit, from Old French limit, from oblique stem of Latin līmes, līmit- (“a cross-path or balk between fields, hence a boundary, boundary line or wall, any path or road, border, limit”). Displaced native Old English ġemǣre. Doublet of limes.
At the time, there seemed to be no limit to the size of ever-larger private equity deals, with banks falling over each other to arrange financing on generous terms and to invest money from their own private equity arms.2012 March 6, Dan McCrum, Nicole Bullock and Guy Chazan, Financial Times, “Utility buyout loses power in shale gas revolution”
It is the conductor which communicates to the inhabitants of regions beyond its limit […]1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, chapter 21, in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC:
Two drinks is my limit tonight.
No limit / Not none that I can see / No limit / Not one, not one / Not one for you or me / No limit / Well, it can go until eternity, yeah / No limits to our love, girl1978, Breakwater, “No Limit”, in Breakwater:
There are several existing limits to executive power.
Ever he would wander, selfcompelled, to the extreme limit of his cometary orbit, beyond the fixed stars and variable suns and telescopic planets, astronomical waifs and strays, to the extreme boundary of space […]1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 17]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC:
The sequence of reciprocals has zero as its limit.
Category theory defines a very general concept of limit.
"Like many other large resorts, the town operated electric tramways, with open-topped cars. The journey down the steep incline to the harbour must have been exhilarating at times, testing the brakes on the vehicles to the limit."2021 September 8, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Electric tramways at the heart of our seaside story”, in RAIL, number 939, page 59:
the limit of a walk, of a town, or of a country
As eager of the chase, the maid / Beyond the forest's verdant limits strayed.1713, [Alexander] Pope, Windsor-Forest. […], London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC:
The archdeacon hath divided it / Into three limits very equally.c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
The limit of your lives is out.c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
the dateless limit of thy dear exile1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
I prithee, give no limits to my tongue.c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
Englehorn looked at his employer in incredulous admiration. ‘You’re the limit,’ he declared.1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 63:
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| limits | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
limit line · age limit · Deutsch limit · limitarian · spread limit · upper limit · Betz limit · Eddington limit · GZK limit · time limit · limit ordinal · sublimit · antilimit · lower limit · limit superior · limit screw · term limit · Landauer limit · city limit(s) · the sky is the limit · Hayashi limit · term-limit · limit point · blowdown limit · Shannon limit · Sparrow's resolution limit · limit of positive stability · quantum limit · Kármán limit · cash limit · limitive · Roche limit · limit up · pot limit · Armstrong limit · credit limit · limitation · limit cycle · ticket time limit · limit comparison test · superlimit · sky's-the-limit · Dawes resolution limit · limit order · limital · limit break · no limit · limit case · von Kármán limit · limit inferior · dizzy limit · von Karman limit · diffraction limit · outer limit · direct limit · time-limit · Bremermann's limit · limit bid · speed limit · limit down · the sky's the limit · Hayflick limit · McDowell limit · limit switch · lintel · elastic limit · in the limit · McQ limit · giddy limit · overlimit · Gabrielli-von Karman limit · Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin limit · McQuary limit · wonderful limit · unlimit · Atterberg limit · Karman limit · central limit theorem · to the limit · colimit · limit situation · Chandrasekhar limit · Shockley-Queisser limit · limitless · Gabrielli-von Kármán limit · limit cardinal · push the limit · rate limit · Rayleigh's resolution limit · Chu-Harrington limit
terminal object · pullback · identity morphism · equalizer · categorical product
inverse limit · boundary (restriction) · bound (restriction) · threshold (restriction) · projective limit · rim (restriction) · restriction (restriction) · limitation (restriction)
grc ὅριον (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · fi rajoitus (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · el όριο (mathematics: value to which a sequence converges) · ckb سِنور (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · ro valoare extremă (mathematics: value to which a sequence converges) · kk шекара (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · nb begrensning (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · mn хязгаар (mathematics: value to which a sequence converges) · ko 리미트 (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · be лімі́т (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · oc limit (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · alt лимит (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · io limito (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · nrf lînmite (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · sv gränsvärde (mathematics: abstraction of concept of limit) · da grænse (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · tg ҳудуд (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · my အကန့်အသတ် (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · fr limite (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · tl hgn. (mathematics: abstraction of concept of limit) · ro valoare limită (mathematics: abstraction of concept of limit) · ms حد (mathematics: value to which a sequence converges) · sl limita (mathematics: value to which a sequence converges) · hy սահման (mathematics: value to which a sequence converges) · tr sınırlayıcı (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · ar نِهَايَة (mathematics: value to which a sequence converges) · tg ҳад (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · mi tepe (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · es límite (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · kk шек (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · gd iomall (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · ru грани́ца (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · ka ზღვარი (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · vi giới hạn (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · sk medza (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · is markgildi (mathematics: value to which a sequence converges) · tl hanggan (mathematics: abstraction of concept of limit) · fi raja (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · et piirang (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · az limit (mathematics: value to which a sequence converges) · bg граница (mathematics: abstraction of concept of limit) · fi raja-arvo (mathematics: value to which a sequence converges) · mn хэмжээ (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · ms had (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · kaw watĕs (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · cs mez (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · ja 限度 (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · bg ограниче́ние (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · de Limes (mathematics: abstraction of concept of limit) · ru ограниче́ние (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · uz chek (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · it limite (mathematics: abstraction of concept of limit) · ka ლიმიტი (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · id limit (mathematics: value to which a sequence converges) · bg преде́л (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · de Grenzwert (mathematics: abstraction of concept of limit) · jv wates (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · sq cak (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · sh grànica (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · nb grenseverdi (mathematics: value to which a sequence converges) · km កម្រិត (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · de Begrenzer (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · mk граница (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · ang ġemǣre (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · fa حد (mathematics: value to which a sequence converges) · la limes (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · nl limiet (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · mn хязгаар (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · hi सीमा (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · cmn 極限 /极限 (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · km លីមីត (mathematics: value to which a sequence converges) · ro hotar (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · tr had (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · be мяжа́ (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · it confine (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · ur حد (mathematics: value to which a sequence converges) · hi सीमा (mathematics: value to which a sequence converges) · lt limitas (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · la terminus (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · sv begränsning (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · de Grenzwert (mathematics: value to which a sequence converges) · cs limit (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · sh гра̀ница (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · ko 제한 (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · ca límit (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · pt limite (mathematics: value to which a sequence converges) · ru преде́л (mathematics: value to which a sequence converges) · tr kısıtlayıcı (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · lo ຂີດຈຳກັດ (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · eo limeso (mathematics: value to which a sequence converges) · ro graniță (mathematics: value to which a sequence converges) · ro limită (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · hu határ (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · ja リミット (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · da grænseværdi (mathematics: value to which a sequence converges) · it limite (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · tg ҳад (mathematics: value to which a sequence converges) · uz had (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · sv gränsvärde (mathematics: value to which a sequence converges) · ms batas (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · lt riba (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · ro limită (mathematics: value to which a sequence converges) · ky чек ара (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · sl omejitev (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · id batas (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · uk межа́ (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · nl grens (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · te హద్దు (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · sv gräns (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · grc ὅρος (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · hy սահման (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · sq kufi (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · bg гра́ница (mathematics: value to which a sequence converges) · de Grenze (mathematics: value to which a sequence converges) · ar حَدّ (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · km កំណត់ (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · pl granica (mathematics: value to which a sequence converges) · cmn 極限 /极限 (mathematics: value to which a sequence converges) · tl hanggan (mathematics: value to which a sequence converges) · da begrænsning (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · ru преде́л (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · ja 極限 (mathematics: value to which a sequence converges) · ms had (mathematics: value to which a sequence converges) · fi raja-arvo (mathematics: abstraction of concept of limit) · ms hinggan (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · uk лімі́т (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · eu muga (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · da grænseværdi (mathematics: abstraction of concept of limit) · fr limite (mathematics: value to which a sequence converges) · th ขีดจำกัด (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · uz chegara (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · eo limito (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · tl hgn. (mathematics: value to which a sequence converges) · el σύνορο (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · az hədd (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · cs limita (mathematics: value to which a sequence converges) · fa-ira حَدّ (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · et piir (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · ja 限界 (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · ru лими́т (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · lv limits (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · hu határérték (mathematics: value to which a sequence converges) · sv limes (mathematics: value to which a sequence converges) · bg гра́ница (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · de Grenze (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · sk limit (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · pt limite (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · mi tepenga (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · pl limit (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · ky чек (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · ka ზღვარი (mathematics: value to which a sequence converges) · nl limiet (mathematics: value to which a sequence converges) · ro margine (mathematics: value to which a sequence converges) · ml പരിധി (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · el όριο (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go) · it limite (mathematics: value to which a sequence converges)
From Middle English limiten, from Old French limiter, from Latin līmitō (“to bound, limit, fix, determine”), from līmes; see noun.
Beeching is more disparaging about suburban services beyond the capital, and I think here lies one of the most critical shortcomings in his analysis. By not considering the potential for these cities to grow, both on their own merits and in response to London's limitations, he failed to future-proof these types of service, limiting them in favour of long-distance services.2023 March 8, Gareth Dennis, “The Reshaping of things to come...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 48:
We need to limit the power of the executive.
[The Chinese government] has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
I'm limiting myself to two drinks tonight.
The sequence limits on the point a.
a limiting friar
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| limits | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| limited | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| limited | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| limiting | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |
limitable · limit out · prelimit · self-limiting
undermine · dampen · withstrain · hamper · retard · delay · bind · inhibit · guard · stifle · weaken · curtail · let · get in the way · hamshackle · quench · prevene · forestay · crimp · straiten · suppress · cork · mar · subdue · thwarten · interfere · obstruct · shackle · vanquish · check · check · restrict · hinder · limit · retroact · lessen · reduce · hold up · restrict · quell · dash · worsen · preclude · stop · chasten · stymie · hurt · straiten · foreclose · behedge · frustrate · underbring · restrain · withhold · repress · difficult · diminish · forslow · intervene · blunt · smother · hold back · impede · umbeset · prevent · incommode · slow down · contain · curb · behedge · catch · impair · overslaugh · bury · throttle · prohibit · thwart · hold down · govern · stay · stay · handicap · choke back
la cohibeō (restrict) · de begrenzen (restrict) · izh rajata (restrict) · sl omejevati (restrict) · cmn 制限 (restrict) · la fīniō (restrict) · sk ohraničiť (restrict) · nb begrense (restrict) · mi tārohe (restrict) · sh огранича́вати (restrict) · ar حَدَّدَ (restrict) · ja 制限する (restrict) · sh ogràničiti (restrict) · mk ограничи (restrict) · ro limita (restrict) · mi whakatina (restrict) · et piirama (restrict) · tr tahdit etmek (restrict) · sl omejiti (restrict) · pt restringir (restrict) · grc ὁρίζω (restrict) · sk obmedzovať (restrict) · ga cum (restrict) · uk обмежо́вувати (restrict) · es limitar (restrict) · vi giới hạn (restrict) · vi hạn chế (restrict) · ru ограни́чить (restrict) · bg огранича́вам (restrict) · pms limité (restrict) · ru ограни́чивать (restrict) · ko 제한하다 (restrict) · he תִּיחֵם \ תִּחֵם (restrict) · sk obmedziť (restrict) · nl beperken (restrict) · hi सीमित (restrict) · pl ograniczać (restrict) · pt limitar (restrict) · ar حَدَّ (restrict) · sv begränsa (restrict) · nrf lînmiter (restrict) · tr sınırlamak (restrict) · fr limiter (restrict) · ja 限る (restrict) · ca limitar (restrict) · tr kısıtlamak (restrict) · cmn 限制 (restrict) · bg огранича́ (restrict) · sh ograničávati (restrict) · ja 限定する (restrict) · sk ohraničovať (restrict) · sco leemit (restrict) · ga teorannaigh (restrict) · fi rajoittaa (restrict) · ro restrânge (restrict) · sh огра̀ничити (restrict) · uk омежува́ти (restrict) · uk обме́жити (restrict) · la terminō (restrict) · cs omezovat (restrict) · es cortapisar (restrict) · he הִגְבִּיל (restrict) · cs omezit (restrict) · de befristen (restrict) · eo limigi (restrict) · hy սահմանափակել (restrict) · be абмяжо́ўваць (restrict) · uk обме́жувати (restrict) · mk ограничува (restrict) · it limitare (restrict) · da begrænse (restrict) · de beschränken (restrict) · ja 狭める (restrict) · be абмежава́ць (restrict) · nl begrenzen (restrict) · pl ograniczyć (restrict) · el περιορίζω (restrict)