Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Restricted to the service of one employer, as a laborer hired by him for the year; as, “a numerous body of confined labourers,”
- Restrained within limits; imprisoned; secluded; close; narrow; mean: as, a confined mind.
- In pathology, constipated: as, the bowels may be confined.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective having movement restricted to within a certain area; -- usually a building. Opposite of
unconfined . - adjective deprived of liberty; especially placed under arrest or restraint.
- adjective having movement restricted to within an enclosed outdoor area; -- of animals.
- adjective (Med.) not invading healthy tissue.
- adjective held prisoner.
- adjective having movement or progress restricted to a certain area.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
confine . - adjective not free to move
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective being in captivity
- adjective not free to move about
- adjective not invading healthy tissue
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Examples
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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.
Press Briefing By General Wilhelm ITY National Archives 1999
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Kisumu or Port Florence (a term confined to the harbour) is a flourishing town built on a hill overlooking Victoria Nyanza.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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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.
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Albert Holland is a psychologist for NASA who's worked with astronauts in confined spaces like the International Space Station.
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Albert Holland is a psychologist for NASA who's worked with astronauts in confined spaces like the International Space Station.
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But the lessons of Chile's nitrate boom and bust, which helped spur worker rights movements, should not remain confined to the desert.
Stacy Torres: How My Father Survived Chile's Mines Stacy Torres 2010
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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.
Literary Study 2009
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Albert Holland is a psychologist for NASA who's worked with astronauts in confined spaces like the International Space Station.
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Avoid being in confined areas with smokers: riding in cars, public places, home.
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Avoid being in confined areas with smokers: riding in cars, public places, home.
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