Antonyms for confinescon·fines

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1. confines

   The boundary was originally the landmark, that which marked off one piece of territory from another. The bound is the limit, marked or unmarked. Now, however, the difference between the two words has come to be simply one of usage. As regards territory, we speak of the boundaries of a nation or of an estate; the bounds of a college, a ball-ground, etc. Bounds may be used for all within the limits, boundary for the limiting line only. Boundary looks to that which is without; bound only to that which is within. Hence we speak of the bounds, not the boundaries, of a subject, of the universe, etc.; we say the students were forbidden to go beyond the bounds. A barrier is something that bars ingress or egress. A barrier may be a boundary, as was the Great Wall of China. Bourn, or bourne, is a poetical expression for bound or boundary. A border is a strip of land along the boundary. Edge is a sharp terminal line, as where river or ocean meets the land. Limit is now used almost wholly in the figurative sense; as, the limit of discussion, of time, of jurisdiction. Line is a military term; as, within the lines, or through the lines, of an army. Compare BARRIER; END.

   Antonyms:
   center, citadel, estate, inside, interior, land, region, territory

   Synonyms:
   barrier, border, bound, boundary, bourn, bourne, edge, enclosure, frontier, landmark, limit, line, marches, marge, margin, term, termination, verge

   Preposition:
   The boundaries of an estate; the boundary between neighboring territories.

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1. • Scope

Princeton's WordNet

1. confinesnoun

   a bounded scope

   "he stayed within the confines of the city"

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1. confinesnoun

   Synonyms:
   boundaries, borders, precincts, outskirts, purlieus, marches, frontiers

How to use confines in a sentence?

1. Robert Malley:

   If Iran does comes back to the table, whenever they come back to the seventh round, and put on the table issues that clearly go beyond the confines of the JCPOA, and that's sort of what we're hearing, I mean we may be wrong, but that's what we're hearing, then we're prepared to have a negotiation about a different kind of deal, a deal that would address more issues than the JCPOA. But Iran is gon na have to make a choice and it can't have it both ways. It can't say that the US has to give more than the JCPOA and Iran is going to give only what the JCPOA requires, or perhaps even less.

2. Sports Gordon Oluoch:

   We want to discuss the issues raised by the athletes to see if we can resolve the matter, we believe in the rule of the law. So even if the athletes have genuine cases, they must operate within the confines of the law, not through the law of the jungle.

3. Raffy Karamanoukian:

   Provided you do it with an experienced practitioner, Botox has very little risk within the confines of the normal dosages.

4. Alfred North Whitehead, From the viewbook of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University:

   The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth.

5. Oscar Auliq-Ice:

   Feeding yourself lies or half-truths will lead to the forming of a reality that doesn’t actually exist past the confines of your psyche.

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