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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

LIM'ITED, pp.
1. Bounded; circumscribed; restrained.
2. a. Narrow; circumscribed. Our views of nature are very limited.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: small in range or scope; "limited war"; "a limited success"; "a limited circle of friends" [ant: limitless, unlimited]
2: subject to limits or subjected to limits [syn: circumscribed, limited]
3: including only a part
4: mediocre [syn: limited, modified]
5: not excessive
6: having a specific function or scope; "a special (or specific) role in the mission" [syn: limited, special]
7: not unlimited; "a limited list of choices" n
1: public transport consisting of a fast train or bus that makes only a few scheduled stops; "he caught the express to New York" [syn: express, limited] [ant: local]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1597 1. a. confined within limits ; restricted <limited success> b. of a train offering faster service especially by making a limited number of stops 2. characterized by enforceable limitations prescribed (as by a constitution) upon the scope or exercise of powers <a limited monarchy> 3. lacking breadth and originality <a bit limited; a bit thick in the head — Virginia Woolf> • limitedly adverb • limitedness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 confined within limits. 2 not great in scope or talents (has limited experience). 3 a few, scanty, restricted (limited accommodation). b restricted to a few examples (limited edition). Phrases and idioms: limited (or limited liability) company a company whose owners are legally responsible only to a limited amount for its debts. limited liability Brit. the status of being legally responsible only to a limited amount for debts of a trading company. Derivatives: limitedly adv. limitedness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Limit Lim"it (l[i^]m"[i^]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Limited; p. pr. & vb. n. Limiting.] [F. limiter, L. limitare, fr. limes, limitis, limit; prob. akin to limen threshold, E. eliminate; cf. L. limus sidelong.] To apply a limit to, or set a limit for; to terminate, circumscribe, or restrict, by a limit or limits; as, to limit the acreage of a crop; to limit the issue of paper money; to limit one's ambitions or aspirations; to limit the meaning of a word. Limiting parallels (Astron.), those parallels of latitude between which only an occultation of a star or planet by the moon, in a given case, can occur.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Limited Lim"it*ed (l[i^]m"[i^]t*[e^]d), a. Confined within limits; narrow; circumscribed; restricted; as, our views of nature are very limited. Limited company, a company in which the liability of each shareholder is limited by the number of shares he has taken, so that he can not be called on to contribute beyond the amount of his shares. [Eng.] --Mozley & W.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Something that is limited is not very great in amount, range, or degree. They may only have a limited amount of time to get their points across... = small ADJ: usu ADJ n 2. A limited company is one whose owners are legally responsible for only a part of any money that it may owe if it goes bankrupt. (mainly BRIT BUSINESS; in AM, use incorporated) They had plans to turn the club into a limited company... He is the founder of International Sports Management Limited. ADJ: ADJ n, n ADJ

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