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LIMITING

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase

Synonyms:

limiting; modification; qualifying

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Hypernyms ("limiting" is a kind of...):

grammatical relation (a linguistic relation established by grammar)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "limiting"):

restrictiveness (a grammatical qualification that makes the meaning more specific ('red hat' has a more specific meaning than 'hat'))

apposition (a grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Restricting the scope or freedom of action

Synonyms:

confining; constraining; constrictive; limiting; restricting

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

restrictive (serving to restrict)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Strictly limiting the reference of a modified word or phrase

Example:

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

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

restrictive (serving to restrict)

Domain category:

grammar (the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics))

 III. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb limit

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 Context examples: 

UCK is the rate-limiting enzyme in the pyrimidine-nucleotide salvage pathway.

(Cytidine Analog RX-3117, NCI Thesaurus)

Treatments include medicines, using crutches, limiting activities that put weight on the affected joints, electrical stimulation and surgery.

(Osteonecrosis, NIH: National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases)

Currently, disintegrants have been developed to the point that disintegration is not usually the rate limiting step.

(Disintegrant Excipient, NCI Thesaurus)

Inhibition of sodium channels prevents the depolarization of nerve cell membranes and inhibits subsequent propagation of impulses along the course of the nerve, thereby limiting the excitation of nerve endings.

(Dibucaine, NCI Thesaurus)

Any substance that inhibits cytidine triphosphate synthetase, an enzyme that catalyses the rate-limiting step in the synthesis of CTP.

(Cytidine Triphosphate Synthetase Inhibitor, NCI Thesaurus)

Derivatives of thrombin-cleaved fibrinogen that are plasma soluble due to limiting amounts of the clot promoting protein factor XIII.

(Fibrin Monomer, NCI Thesaurus)

Any physiologic process in which the C3 and C5 convertases are disassembled or proteolytically inactivated, limiting the persistence of convertase activity.

(Negative Regulation of Complement Activation, NCI Thesaurus)

G1 subphases include competence, entry (G1a), progression (G1b), and assembly (G1c), based on effects of limiting growth factors, nutrients, or inhibitors.

(Negative Regulation of G0 to G1 Transition, NCI Thesaurus)

Any substance that inhibits ornithine decarboxylase, an enzyme that catalyzes the decarboxylation of ornithine, the rate-limiting, commiting reaction in polyamine synthesis.

(Ornithine Decarboxylase Inhibitor, NCI Thesaurus)

“This is a very obvious way of limiting our field of operations,” said Holmes.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)