restrict

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin restrictus, perfect passive participle of restringō (“draw back tightly; restrain, restrict”), from re- (“back, again”) + stringō (“press, tighten, compress”). Doublet of ristretto as an adjective.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈstɹɪkt/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -ɪkt

Verb

restrict (third-person singular simple present restricts, present participle restricting, simple past and past participle restricted)

1. To restrain within boundaries; to limit; to confine

   After suffering diahrroea, the patient was restricted to a diet of rice, cold meat, and yoghurt.

   • 2011 September 28, Jon Smith, “Valencia 1 - 1 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     It was no less than Valencia deserved after dominating possession in the final 20 minutes although Chelsea defended resolutely and restricted the Spanish side to shooting from long range.

2. (specifically, mathematics) To consider (a function) as defined on a subset of its original domain.

   If we restrict sine to $\left[-{\frac {\pi }{2}},{\frac {\pi }{2}}\right]$, we can define its inverse.

Synonyms

• (to restrain within bounds): limit, bound, circumscribe, withstrain, restrain, repress, curb, coerce, quarantine (fig.)

Related terms

• restriction
• restraint
• restrain

Translations

to restrain within bounds

• Arabic: حَدَّ (ar) (ḥadda), حَدَّدَ (ḥaddada)
• Asturian: restrinxir
• Belarusian: абмяжо́ўваць impf (abmjažóŭvacʹ), абмежава́ць pf (abmježavácʹ)
• Bulgarian: огранича́вам (bg) impf (ograničávam), огранича́ pf (ograničá)
• Catalan: restringir (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 限制 (zh) (xiànzhì), 制限 (zh) (zhìxiàn)

• Czech: omezovat (cs) impf, omezit (cs) pf
• Danish: begrænse (da)
• Dutch: beperken (nl), begrenzen (nl)
• Finnish: rajoittaa (fi), pysyä jossakin
• French: restreindre (fr), limiter (fr)
• Galician: restrinxir (gl)
• German: beschränken (de), begrenzen (de)
• Hebrew: הִגְבִּיל (higbíl)
• Hungarian: korlátoz (hu), szűkít (hu), leszűkít (hu), megszorít (hu)
• Irish: teorannaigh
• Italian: restringere (it), limitare (it)
• Japanese: 制限する (ja) (せいげんする, seigen suru)
• Korean: 제한하다 (ko) (jehanhada)
• Macedonian: ограничува impf (ograničuva), ограничи pf (ograniči)
• Maori: whakatina, aukati, rāhui, hamaruru, nati
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: begrense (no)

• Polish: ograniczać (pl) impf, ograniczyć (pl) pf
• Portuguese: restringir (pt), limitar (pt)
• Romanian: a restrânge (ro), a limita (ro)
• Russian: ограни́чивать (ru) impf (ograníčivatʹ), ограни́чить (ru) pf (ograníčitʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: огранича́вати impf, огра̀ничити pf

  Roman: ograničávati (sh) impf, ogràničiti (sh) pf

• Slovak: obmedzovať, obmedziť pf, ohraničovať impf, ohraničiť pf
• Slovene: omejevati impf, omejiti pf
• Spanish: restringir (es), limitar (es)
• Swedish: inskränka (sv), begränsa (sv)
• Turkish: sınırlamak (tr), kısıtlamak (tr)
• Ukrainian: обме́жувати impf (obméžuvaty), обмежо́вувати impf (obmežóvuvaty), обме́жити pf (obméžyty), омежува́ти pf (omežuváty)
• Vietnamese: hạn chế (vi) (限制)

to consider (a function) as defined on a smaller domain

Adjective

restrict (comparative more restrict, superlative most restrict)

1. (obsolete) Restricted.

Anagrams

• critters, stricter