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Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : lim-it
Phonetic Transcription : ˈlɪm ɪt



Definition of limit

Origin :
  • c.1400, "boundary, frontier," from Old French limite "a boundary," from Latin limitem (nominative limes) "a boundary, limit, border, embankment between fields," related to limen "threshold." Originally of territory; general sense from early 15c. Colloquial sense of "the very extreme, the greatest degree imaginable" is from 1904.
  • noun greatest extent
  • noun physical boundary
  • verb confine, restrict
Example sentences :
  • Do this up to the limit of your capital and I will make good anything you lose.
  • Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • They're negotiating now with the Rothschilds to limit the output of the Rio Tinto mines.
  • Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • There is no limit to the moral baseness of the man of avarice.
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
  • As much money as they would pay me was the limit of my expectation.
  • Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King
  • It was in fact a little way beyond what she had come to count her limit.
  • Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
  • But after a whole week of Mabel he decided that the limit had been reached.
  • Extract from : « Quaint Courtships » by Various
  • But, there is a limit beyond which the plane surface cannot be reduced with safety.
  • Extract from : « Flying Machines » by W.J. Jackman and Thos. H. Russell
  • If I save my strength and make the most of it, there is scarcely a limit to what I may do.
  • Extract from : « The Call of the Twentieth Century » by David Starr Jordan
  • There is a limit to the best man's experience; a margin of error in the best man's judgment.
  • Extract from : « The Leopard Woman » by Stewart Edward White
  • He seemed to say, "I'm ready for anything, the sky is the limit."
  • Extract from : « Pee-wee Harris » by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

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