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con·fine

(kən-fīn′)

tr.v. con·fined, con·fin·ing, con·fines

1. To keep within bounds; restrict: Please confine your remarks to the issues at hand. See Synonyms at limit.

2. To shut or keep in, especially to imprison.

3. To restrict in movement: The sick child was confined to bed.

[French confiner, from Old French, from confins, boundaries; see confines.]

con·fin′a·ble, con·fine′a·ble adj.

con·fin′er n.

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Adj.	1.	confining - restricting the scope or freedom of action constraining, limiting, restricting, constrictive restrictive - serving to restrict; "teenagers eager to escape restrictive home environments"
	2.	confining - crowded; "close quarters" close confined - not free to move about

confining

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Affording little room for movement:

close, cramped, crowded, narrow, snug, tight.

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But it is alleged, that it might be employed in such a manner as to promote the election of some favorite class of men in exclusion of others, by confining the places of election to particular districts, and rendering it impracticable to the citizens at large to partake in the choice.

If the latter is the case, (as every intelligent man knows it to be,[1]) is it not evident that the policy of confining the places of election to particular districts would be as subversive of its own aim as it would be exceptionable on every other account?

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In January this year, one of the women, accused the musician of confining her in his soundproof recording room for seven days and raping her several times.

Indian musician arrested for raping three women, locking them in recording studio

but confining him at his residence along with his family is not good,' Ebad told Musharraf.

Musharraf did not order Iftikhar Chaudhry's confinement: Dr Ishrat-ul-Ebad

Fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) composites in the form of wraps or jackets have been widely used to serve as a confining device for seismic retrofit of existing RC columns [5, 6].

Analysis and Design of Short FRP-Confined Concrete-Encased Arbitrarily Shaped Steel Columns under Biaxial Loading

As a strain-rate sensitive material, the mechanical properties of a rock are affected by dynamic loading and confining pressure and have received a great deal with attention in many engineering fields, particularly excavation-induced seismicity, rockbursts during tunnel excavation and mining activities [1-5].

Dynamic Compressive Characteristics of Sandstone under Confining Pressure and Radial Gradient Stress with the SHPB Test

[6, 7] studied the effects of overburden pressure and confining pressure on sandstone permeability.

Experimental Study on the Effects of Stress Variations on the Permeability of Feldspar-Quartz Sandstone

It is well known that reinforced concrete strength, ductility and energy dissipation capacity increases with increase in confining reinforcement ratio.

SUSTAINABLE APPLICATION OF RECYCLED CONCRETE IN REINFORCED CONCRETE FRAME ELEMENTS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

Three columns were casted using different confining steel.

LATERAL CONFINEMENT OF RC SHORT COLUMN

However, much less is known about the behaviour of concrete in FRP-confined square columns, in which the confining pressure provided by the FRP varies over the cross-section and only part of the concrete is effectively confined (Park, Paulay 1975).

Behaviour of square concrete column confined with GFRP composite warp/ Kompozitiniais stiklo pluostu armuoto polimero lakstais sustiprintu kvadratiniu betoniniu kolonu elgsena

To find out how the immune system responds to temporary anxiety, like being frightened, scientists stressed a group of mice by confining them in tight quarters for short periods of time.

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According to the court, the state had a compelling government interest in identifying, confining and treating SVPs that outweighed the plaintiff's right to privacy in his medical records.