| Pronunciation: | | k'ânf`Inz
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| Matching Terms: | | confine, confined, confineless, confinement, confiner
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| | Definition: | | [n] a bounded scope; "he stayed with the confines of the city" |
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| | See Also: | | ambit, compass, orbit, range, reach, scope |
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| | Related Terms: | | airspace, approach, approximation, area, belt, boundaries, bounds, bourns, circumference, circumscription, closeness, compass, continental shelf, convergence, coordinates, corridor, country, department, district, division, edges, environs, foreground, fringes, ground, heartland, hinterland, immediacy, immediate foreground, land, limitations, limits, marches, metes, metes and bounds, milieu, nearness, neighborhood, nighness, offshore rights, outlines, outskirts, pale, parameters, part, parts, perimeter, periphery, place, precinct, precincts, premises, propinquity, proximity, purlieus, quarter, region, salient, section, skirts, soil, space, terrain, territory, three-mile limit, twelve-mile limit, verges, vicinage, vicinity, zone |
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