Associations to the word «Limiting»

Wiktionary

LIMITING, verb. Present participle of limit
LIMITING, noun. A limitation.
LIMITING ADJECTIVE, noun. An adjective that limits a noun; they include definite articles, indefinite articles, possessive adjectives, demonstrative adjectives, indefinite adjectives, interrogative adjectives, cardinal adjectives, ordinal adjectives, proper adjectives and nouns used as adjectives

Dictionary definition

LIMITING, noun. The grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase.
LIMITING, adjective. Restricting the scope or freedom of action.
LIMITING, adjective. 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".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats