TO BE CONFINED

  

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TO BE CONFINED

Definition: TO BE CONFINED

TO BE CONFINED

1. To be in childbed. Syn: To bound; limit; restrain; imprison; immure; inclose; circumscribe; restrict.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: TO BE CONFINED

English words defined with "TO BE CONFINED": Steam gaugeTo be the death of, To be under hatches. (references)
Specialty definitions using "TO BE CONFINED": CHILDREN'S TUTOR, chip sampling, city tour, Clean Water Act, Controlled Thermonuclear FusionFimbriae, Bacterial, FLAT, foreskreven spaendinggap testheading blast, Hungarian Notationknife dogLava tubeMallory-Weiss Syndrome, Minimum-B Configuration, Mirror Device or Mirror MachineNonneutral Plasmasodd-job workerPeeping Tom of Coventry, prescribed burningretaining structure, rotational postsemi-invariant, sightseeing tour, stable hole conveyor, strata-bound, SUPERVISOR, LOGGINGtorsional shear testYARD WORKER, yarding supervisor. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: TO BE CONFINED

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

Until un-metered access becomes the norm, surfing from home is likely to be confined to low cost, off-peak, periods such as evenings and weekends. (references)

Civil Liberties

India

In general, religious minorities in the northern area of the country claim that the regional governments' attitudes toward their communities have deteriorated since the BJP assumed power in 1998, and are concerned that attacks on religious minorities no longer appear to be confined to Gujarat and Orissa. (references)

Worker Rights

Mauritania

There have been no reports of sales or the "transfer" of children or other individuals from one employer or master to another since 1996, when there were occasional confirmed cases of transfers; reports of sales are rare, cannot be confirmed, and appear to be confined to past years. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Modern Translation: TO BE CONFINED

Language Translations for "TO BE CONFINED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

be van zárva. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

ç± ã‚‹ (to be confined in, to be implied, to be stuffy, to seclude oneself), ç± ã‚‚ã‚‹ (to be confined in, to be implied, to be stuffy, to seclude oneself), 篭る (to be confined in, to be implied, to be stuffy, to seclude oneself). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ã"ã‚‚ã‚‹ (to be confined in, to be implied, to be stuffy, to seclude oneself). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otay ebay onfinedcay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: TO BE CONFINED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-c-d-e-e-f-i-n-n-o-o-t"

-3 letters: coenobite, confident, defection.

-4 letters: benedict, bonneted, botonnee, cenobite, confined, connoted, indecent, infected, neotenic, noontide, obedient.

-5 letters: benefic, benefit, botonee, codeine, condone, confide, confine, connote, contend, coontie, ctenoid, dentine, deontic, ebonite, ecotone, endnote, enticed, eobiont, feinted, intoned, noticed, tenoned.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: TO BE CONFINED


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 4F      42 45      43 4F 4E 46 49 4E 45 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001111 00100000 01000010 01000101 00100000 01000011 01001111 01001110 01000110 01001001 01001110 01000101 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#32 &#66 &#69 &#32 &#67 &#79 &#78 &#70 &#73 &#78 &#69 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F      0042 0045      0043 004F 004E 0046 0049 004E 0045 0044

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

54492363923749484043483938

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Non-English Dictionaries with "TO BE CONFINED"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Hungarian

szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordításmagyar

Japanese Kanji

è¾­å…¸ , 辞典 , 字引 , 辞林 , 字書 , ディーゼル電気車 , 言海 , 辞彙 , 辞書 , 確定 , ディーゼル電気車 , デãƒ'ドロ酢酸 , 翻訳 japán, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ã»ã†ã", ジャパニーズ , ã»ã†ã˜ã‚"

Japanese Katakana

ã˜ã„, ã˜ã³ã, ã˜ã¦ã‚", ディクショナリー , ã˜ã‚Šã‚", ã˜ã—ょ, ã'ã‚"ã‹ã„, ディクショナリ , デフィニション , ディフィニション , ã¦ã„ãŽ, ã‹ãã¦ã„, ã¸ã„ã"ã†ã„ã©ã†, ã‚„ãã˜ã‚…ã¤, トランスレーション , ã‚„ãã—ょ, ã‚„ãã—ã‚…ã¤, ã"ã†ã©ã, ã»ã‚"ã‚„ã, ã»ã‚"ã‚„ãã—ょjapán, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ã»ã†ã", ジャパニーズ , ã»ã†ã˜ã‚"

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationangol
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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