"limiting" in the noun sense
1. modification, qualifying, limiting
the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase
"limiting" in the verb sense
1. restrict, trammel, limit, bound, confine, throttle
place limits on (extent or amount or access
"restrict the use of this parking lot"
"limit the time you can spend with your friends"
2. limit, circumscribe, confine to
restrict or confine within limits
"I limit you to two visits to the pub a day"
"please confine your questions to the topic"
"our actions are circumscribed by our biology, personality, and by the social and cultural context into which we are born"
3. specify, set, determine, define, fix, limit
decide upon or fix definitely
"fix the variables"
"specify the parameters"
"limiting" in the adjective sense
1. confining, constraining, constrictive, limiting, restricting
restricting the scope or freedom of action
2. limiting
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"
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