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Borrowed from Latin restrictus, perfect passive participle of restringō (“draw back tightly; restrain, restrict”), from re- (“back, again”) + stringō (“press, tighten, compress”). Doublet of ristretto as an adjective.
restrict (third-person singular simple present restricts, present participle restricting, simple past and past participle restricted)
- To restrain within boundaries; to limit; to confine
After suffering diahrroea, the patient was restricted to a diet of rice, cold meat, and yoghurt.
2011 September 28, Jon Smith, “Valencia 1 - 1 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport[1]:
It was no less than Valencia deserved after dominating possession in the final 20 minutes although Chelsea defended resolutely and restricted the Spanish side to shooting from long range.
- (specifically, mathematics) To consider (a function) as defined on a subset of its original domain.
If we restrict sine to , we can define its inverse.
- (to restrain within bounds): limit, bound, circumscribe, withstrain, restrain, repress, curb, coerce, quarantine (fig.)
to restrain within bounds
- Arabic: حَدَّ (ar) (ḥadda), حَدَّدَ (ḥaddada)
- Asturian: restrinxir
- Belarusian: абмяжо́ўваць impf (abmjažóŭvacʹ), абмежава́ць pf (abmježavácʹ)
- Bulgarian: огранича́вам (bg) impf (ograničávam), огранича́ pf (ograničá)
- Catalan: restringir (ca)
- Chinese:
- Czech: omezovat (cs) impf, omezit (cs) pf
- Danish: begrænse (da)
- Dutch: beperken (nl), begrenzen (nl)
- Finnish: rajoittaa (fi), pysyä jossakin
- French: restreindre (fr), limiter (fr)
- Galician: restrinxir (gl)
- German: beschränken (de), begrenzen (de)
- Hebrew: הִגְבִּיל (higbíl)
- Hungarian: korlátoz (hu), szűkít (hu), leszűkít (hu), megszorít (hu)
- Irish: teorannaigh
- Italian: restringere (it), limitare (it)
- Japanese: 制限する (ja) (せいげんする, seigen suru)
- Korean: 제한하다 (ko) (jehanhada)
- Macedonian: ограничува impf (ograničuva), ограничи pf (ograniči)
- Maori: whakatina, aukati, rāhui, hamaruru, nati
- Norwegian:
- Polish: ograniczać (pl) impf, ograniczyć (pl) pf
- Portuguese: restringir (pt), limitar (pt)
- Romanian: a restrânge (ro), a limita (ro)
- Russian: ограни́чивать (ru) impf (ograníčivatʹ), ограни́чить (ru) pf (ograníčitʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: огранича́вати impf, огра̀ничити pf
- Roman: ograničávati (sh) impf, ogràničiti (sh) pf
- Slovak: obmedzovať, obmedziť pf, ohraničovať impf, ohraničiť pf
- Slovene: omejevati impf, omejiti pf
- Spanish: restringir (es), limitar (es)
- Swedish: inskränka (sv), begränsa (sv)
- Turkish: sınırlamak (tr), kısıtlamak (tr)
- Ukrainian: обме́жувати impf (obméžuvaty), обмежо́вувати impf (obmežóvuvaty), обме́жити pf (obméžyty), омежува́ти pf (omežuváty)
- Vietnamese: hạn chế (vi) (限制)
to consider (a function) as defined on a smaller domain
restrict (comparative more restrict, superlative most restrict)
- (obsolete) Restricted.