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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]
Limit \Lim"it\ (l[i^]m"[i^]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Limited; p. pr. & vb. n. Limiting.] [F. limiter, L. limitare, fr. limes, limitis, limit; prob. akin to limen threshold, E. eliminate; cf. L. limus sidelong.] 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. [1913 Webster] Limiting parallels (Astron.), those parallels of latitude between which only an occultation of a star or planet by the moon, in a given case, can occur. [1913 Webster]From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]
Limit \Lim"it\ (l[i^]m"[i^]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Limited; p. pr. & vb. n. Limiting.] [F. limiter, L. limitare, fr. limes, limitis, limit; prob. akin to limen threshold, E. eliminate; cf. L. limus sidelong.] 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. Limiting parallels (Astron.), those parallels of latitude between which only an occultation of a star or planet by the moon, in a given case, can occur.From WordNet (r) 2.0 : [ wn ]
limiting adj 1: restricting the scope or freedom of action [syn: confining, constraining, constrictive, restricting] 2: strictly limiting the reference of a modified word or phrase; "the restrictive clause in `Each made a list of the books that had influenced him' limits the books on the list to only those particular ones defined by the clause" n : the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase [syn: modification, qualifying]From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
limiting n. A limitation. vb. (present participle of en limit nocat=1)From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]
limiting n. A limitation. vb. (present participle of en limit nocat=1)From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]
limiting n. A limitation. vb. (present participle of en limit nocat=1)From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]
limiting n. A limitation. vb. (present participle of en limit nocat=1)From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
limiting Englanti vb. (en-v-taivm l imit ing)From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
limiting Engelska a. (avledning en limit ordform=prespart) Engelska vb. (böjning en verb limit)From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 : [ freedict:eng-ara ]
Limiting /lˈɪmɪtɪŋ/ التحديدFrom English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
limiting /lˈɪmɪtɪŋ/ [eko] limitujícíFrom English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
limiting /lˈɪmɪtɪŋ/From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]vymezení
limiting /lˈɪmɪtɪŋ/From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]ohraničení
limiting /lˈɪmɪtɪŋ/From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]omezující
limiting /lˈɪmɪtɪŋ/ BegrenzungFrom English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
limiting /lˈɪmɪtɪŋ/ beschränkend, begrenzend, einschränkend, limitierend Synonyms: restricting, confining to see: limit sth., restrict sth., confine sth. to sth., limited, restricted, confined to, limit expenses, Please limit your comments to 200 words., You should restrict the amount of salt you use., We must confine ourselves to the most important items.From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 : [ freedict:eng-hrv ]
limiting /lˈɪmɪtɪŋ/ ograničavanja, ograničavanjeFrom English-Lithuanian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.7.2 : [ freedict:eng-lit ]
limiting /'lımıtıŋ/From IPA:en_US : [ IPA:en_US ]apribojantis, varžantis, trukdantis
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 : [ moby-thesaurus ]/ˈɫɪmətɪŋ/
62 Moby Thesaurus words for "limiting": altering, assuasive, bordering, borderline, boundary, bounding, caudal, claustral, coastal, conclusive, confining, cramping, defining, definitive, determinant, determinative, determining, enclosing, endmost, eventual, exclusive, extenuating, extenuatory, extreme, farthest, final, fringing, frontier, last, lenitive, limbic, liminal, limit, limitary, limitative, littoral, marginal, mitigating, mitigative, mitigatory, modificatory, modifying, modulatory, narrowing, palliative, parietal, polar, qualificative, qualificatory, qualifying, restricting, restrictive, rimming, skirting, softening, surrounding, tail, terminal, terminating, terminative, threshold, ultimateFrom Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary : [ stardic ]
a. 限制的;From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary : [ xdict ]
a. 限制的