These verbs mean to establish or keep within specified bounds.
- Limit refers principally to the establishment of a maximum beyond which a person or thing cannot or may not go:
.... The Constitution limits the President's term of office to four years. - To restrict is to keep within prescribed limits, as of choice or action:
.... The sale of alcoholic beverages is restricted to those over 21. - Confine suggests imprisonment, restraint, or impediment:
.... The children were confined to the nursery. - Circumscribe connotes an encircling or surrounding line that confines, especially narrowly:
.... "A man . . . should not circumscribe his activity by any inflexible fence of rigid rules" (John Stuart Blackie).
... The American Heritage, http://www.thefreedictionary.com/limit
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