Confined

Definition: Confined

Confined

Adjective

1. Not free to move about.

2. Enclosed by a confining fence.

3. Not invading healthy tissue.

4. Deprived of liberty; especially placed under arrest or restraint.

5. In captivity.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "confined" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Synonyms: Confined

Disease

Adjective: diseased; ailing; Verb: ill, ill of; taken ill, seized with; indisposed, unwell, sick, squeamish, poorly, seedy; affected with illness, afflicted with illness; laid up, confined, bedridden, invalided, in hospital, on the sick list; out of health, out of sorts; under the weather; valetudinary.

Misjudgment

Narrow-minded, narrow-souled; mean-spirited; confined, illiberal, intolerant, besotted, infatuated, fanatical, entete, positive, dogmatic, conceited; opinative, opiniative; opinioned, opinionate, opinionative, opinionated; self-opinioned, wedded to an opinion, opini_tre; bigoted; (obstinate); crotchety, fussy, impracticable; unreasonable, stupid; credulous; warped.

One-sided views, one-track mind, partial views, narrow views, confined views, superficial views, one-sided ideas, partial ideas, narrow ideas, confined ideas, superficial ideas, one-sided conceptions, partial conceptions, narrow conceptions, confined conceptions, superficial conceptions, one-sided notions, partial notions, narrow notions, confined notions, superficial notions; narrow mind; bigotry; (obstinacy); odium theologicum; pedantry; hypercriticism.

Crosswords: Confined

I've gone back in time to when dinosaurs weren't just confined to zoos! (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

You are confined to quarters. (Beast Wars: Transformers; writing credit: Bob Forward; Lawrence G. DiTillio)

It stalks me, slips in bringing with it the smell of wet dirt and a confined space. (Third Watch; writing credit: Grant Taylor)

Bad Girls 7: Lust Confined (1997)

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

Books

• CONFINED SPACE ENTRY AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE (reference)

• Excitons and Polaritons in Semiconductor Confined Systems (reference)

• Exercises for Airplanes: (And Other Confined Spaces) (reference)

• Guidelines for Hot Work in Confined Spaces: Recommended Practices for Industrial Hygienists and Safety Proessionals (reference)

• Microscopic Approaches to Quantum Liquids in Confined Geometries (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Confined Spaces: A Training Program for Employees (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Confined Here (reference)

• Confined Thoughts (reference)

• Unconsciously Confined (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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

Vaccinia virus is normally confined to cattle, but is conveyed to humans through vaccination, thereby, imparting immunity to the smallpox Variola virus. Credit: CDC.

Salmonella is usually a bacterial infection confined to the gastrointestinal tract, but can spread systemically causing septicemia and infection or lesions anywhere in the body. Credit: CDC.

The EPA confined disposal facility. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

A large dairy farm in Lafayette County, WI. Feed management is practiced on a large confined animal feeding operation. Credit: Bob Nichols.

Confined feeding operations of cattle. Yuma, Az. Credit: Jeff Vanuga.

U. S. Army Base Hospital Number 69, Savenay, France. : Wounded men, still confined to bed in ward at work on leather goods, bags, etc. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

U.S. Army. Base Hospital No.69, Savenay, France. : Education of wounded- showing patients at work while still confined to bed. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Underway in confined waters, circa 1930. Credit: NAVY.

The man is a paranoiac : he should be at once confined in an asylum for the criminal insane. Credit: Library of Congress.

Chinamen confined within the Chinese quarter, cooking their meals. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

And to let us see, that even absolute power, where it is necessary, is not arbitrary by being absolute, but is still limited by that reason, and confined to those ends, which required it in some cases to be absolute, we need look no farther than the common practice of martial discipline: for the preservation of the army, and in it of the whole common-wealth, requires an absolute obedience to the command of every superior officer, and it is justly death to disobey or dispute the most dangerous or unreasonable of them; but yet we see, that neither the serjeant, that could command a soldier to march up to the mouth of a cannon, or stand in a breach, where he is almost sure to perish, can command that soldier to give him one penny of his money; nor the general, that can condemn him to death for deserting his post, or for not obeying the most desperate orders, can yet, with all his absolute power of life and death, dispose of one farthing of that soldier's estate, or seize one jot of his goods; whom yet he can command any thing, and hang for the least disobedience; because such a blind obedience is necessary to that end, for which the commander has his power, viz. (Second Treatise of Government)

In the event of bonds, obligations or other evidence of indebtedness issued by Germany by way of security for or acknowledgment of her reparation debt being disposed of outright, not by way of pledge, to persons other than the several Governments in whose favour Germany's original reparation indebtedness was created, an amount of such reparation indebtedness shall be deemed to be extinguished corresponding to the nominal value of the bonds, etc., so disposed of outright, and the obligation of Germany in respect of such bonds shall be confined to her liabilities to the holders of the bonds, as expressed upon their face. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Makes you wonder what culinary heights the kitchen staff could rise to if you confined them to perpetual darkness.

Hester next gathered up the heavy tresses of her hair, and confined them beneath her cap.

She confined herself to obeying, and endeavouring to please.

The reader may remember what I related when my crew conspired against me and confined me to my cabin.

Unfortunately, I am confined to this theme by the narrowness of my experience.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

The theories surrounding apoE4 are not confined to the proteins. (references)

Many patients awaiting transplantation are confined to a hospital. (references)

By the time they are in their teens, many are confined to a wheel chair. (references)

Business

So accessing the market is no longer confined to conventional retail sales. (references)

Local companies are confined to the retail and maintenance end of the business. (references)

Chen Ziming, who was paroled on medical grounds in November 1996, remained confined to his home except for police- escorted visits to doctors. (references)

Children

India

In March 1999, NHRC member Justice V.S. Malimath said that cases of abuse and torture of children confined to juvenile homes had been reported. (references)

Russia

According to a 1998 Human Rights Watch report, many children with disabilities in institutions are confined to beds around the clock or to rooms that are lit, heated, and furnished inadequately. (references)

Civil Liberties

Bangladesh

The attackers confined the two journalists in the newspaper office until 3:30 a.m. and beat them. (references)

Economic History

Papua New Guinea

Fish exports are confined primarily to shrimp. (references)

Guinea-Bissau

Portuguese forces and civilians increasingly were confined to their garrisons and larger towns. (references)

Syria

Exports are confined to finished products and go to countries of the Middle East and North Africa. (references)

Human Rights

Papua New Guinea

Prisoners are often confined in crowded conditions in police stations. (references)

Yugoslavia

He was confined for 72 hours and reportedly subjected to torture and harsh beatings. (references)

Madagascar

Women in prisons were abused, as were children who sometimes were confined with them. (references)

Minorities

United Kingdom

Public manifestations of anti-Semitism are confined largely to the political or religious fringes. (references)

Political Economy

POLAND

Broadcasting law still restricts foreign ownership to 33 percent, while foreign ownership of air transport is confined to 49 percent. (references)

SPAIN

While the majority, typically 75 percent, of Spain's agricultural trade is confined to markets within the EU, some of Spain's exports are subsidized with EU funding and compete with the United States in third-country markets. (references)

Travel

New Zealand

Temperature extremes are generally confined to locales in the mountainous areas in the North and South Islands. (references)

Women

Djibouti

Few women work in managerial and professional positions; women largely are confined to trade and secretarial fields. (references)

Nigeria

Confined widows are under restrictions for as long as 1 year and usually are required to shave their heads and dress in black. (references)

Worker Rights

Malaysia

Employers are obliged to fulfill certain safety and technical requirements before beginning any projects in confined spaces. (references)

Senegal

In 2000 police arrested a Nigerian citizen who had lured a Nigerian woman to Dakar and confined her in a house with three other Nigerian women. (references)

Malaysia

In June the Human Resources Ministry announced a new regulation to protect laborers performing hazardous work in confined spaces such as manholes and storage tanks. (references)

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "confined": be confined ♦ be confined to bed ♦ confined aquifer ♦ confined eddy ♦ confined explosion ♦ confined fenced in penned ♦ confined field testing ♦ confined flood ♦ confined flow ♦ confined flow system ♦ confined ground water ♦ confined jet ♦ confined space ♦ Confined Spaces ♦ confined to bed ♦ confined water ♦ to be confined. Additional references.

Ending with "confined": longitude-confined, magnetically-confined, purdah-confined.

Afrikaans

begrens (confine, limit, limited, restrict, restricted). (various references)

Albanian

i mbyllur brenda pa dëshirë, i mbyllur (barred, cagey, cagy, close, closed, enclosed, finished, glued, laid up, landlocked, locked, made, pent up, reserved, sealed, self contained, shut, shut in, uncommunicative, uncompanionable, unconversable, unsociable, unsocial, withdrawn), i izoluar (closed, isolated, secluded, sequestered), i burgosur (con, gaolbird, imprisoned, inmate, jailbird, jailed, prisoner), e shtruar për të lindur. (various references)

Arabic 

‏في حالة ولادة, ‏في المخاض, ‏مقيد (bound, bridled, captive, checked, curbed, limited, listed, recorded, registered, restrained, restricted, restrictive, tied), ‏محجوز (pawned, reserved), ‏محدود (bordered, bounded, delimited, determinate, finite, fixed, limited, restricted), ‏متقوقع (isolated, solitary), ‏حبيس (captive, close, pent). (various references)

Bulgarian 

ограничен (close, closed, contracted, finite, hidebound, illiberal, insular, limitary, limited, mean, narrow, narrow minded, one track, open, parochial, pot-bound, restricted, scanty, small minded, sparing, strict, stringent, suburban), затворен (close, closed, imprisoned, jailed, jugged, landlocked, locked, mediterranean, narrow, pent, pent up, recluse, reticent, shut in), запечен (bound, costive), прикован (steadfast). (various references)

Chinese 

限制 (Confine, Confining, constraint, CONSTRAINTS, limiting, stint, Stinted, stinting), 隘 (a pass or defile, in distress, inscribed motto, narrow). (various references)

Czech

upoutaný, stísnìný (glum, pent, pent up). (various references)

Danish

hos fisk forekommer 90 Sr naesten udelukkende i det haarde vaev -knogler og skael (accumulation of Sr-9O in fish is almost exclusively confined to the hard tissues - bones and scales), afkapslet cholascos (confined cholascos), artesisk grundvandsreservoir (artesian aquifer, capped aquifer, confined aquifer, confined ground water, confined water), artesisk vand (artesian water, confined water), eksplosion i lukket rum (confined explosion), farlige i henhold til dette direktiv er følgende stoffer og præparater::eksplosive:faste,flydende,pastaagtige eller gelatinøse stoffer og præparater,der også uden tilførsel af ilt kan reagere stærkt varmeudviklende med hurtig gasudvikling,og som (and which, detonate, liquid, pasty or gelatinous substances and preparations which may also react exothermically without atmospheric oxygen thereby quickly evolving gases, quickly deflagrate or upon heating explode when partially confined, the following are dangerous within the meaning of this Directive::explosive substances and preparations:solid, under defined test conditions), farligt opholdssted (confined space), afgraenset straale (confined jet), grundvandsreservoir (aquifer, confined ground water, confined water, water-bearing formation, water-bearing media, water-bearing strata, water-bearing stratum), ved udslip fordamper denne væske meget hurtigt og forårsager overmætning af luften med alvorlig risiko for kvælning,hvis det sker inden døre (on loss of containment this liquid evaporates very fast causing supersaturation of the air with serious risk of suffocation when in confined areas), indelukket luft (confined atmosphere), kernehvirkel (confined eddy), lukket rum (confined space, enclosed space, enclosure), opdraetning paa stald (confined raising, confined rearing, stall-feeding), staldfodring (confined raising, confined rearing, stall-feeding), trykreservoir (artesian aquifer, capped aquifer, confined aquifer), vandførende lag (aquifer, confined aquifer, water-bearing formation, water-bearing media, water-bearing strata, water-bearing stratum), forbrænding i et lukket rum kan medføre eksplosion (combustion in a confined space may turn into detonation). (various references)

Dutch

eindig (limited, restricted), beperkt (limited, restricted), begrensd (limited, restricted). (various references)

Esperanto

limigita (limited, restricted). (various references)

Farsi 

محدودشده , بستری (Bedridden). (various references)

Finnish

rajoitettu suihku (confined jet), arteesinen pohjavesi (artesian water, confined water), arteesinen pohjavettä johtava kerrostuma (artesian aquifer, capped aquifer, confined aquifer), arteesinen virtaus (artesian flow, confined flow, confined flow system, pressure flow), kasvatus sisällä (confined raising, confined rearing, stall-feeding), navettahoito (confined raising, confined rearing, stall-feeding), arteesinen akviferi (artesian aquifer, capped aquifer, confined aquifer), räjähdys suljetussa tilassa (confined explosion), tauti sitoi hänet, vuoteeseen (the disease confined her to her bed), rajoitettu tila (confined space), salpa-akviferin vesikerros (confined aquifer), salpavesi (confined ground water, confined water, perched water, perched waters), sisäruokinta (confined raising, confined rearing, stall-feeding), suljettu tila (confined space, enclosed space, enclosure), tässä direktiivissä tarkoitetussa merkityksessä "vaarallisia" ovat seuraavat aineet ja valmisteet:räjähtävät:kiinteät,nestemäiset,tahnamaiset tai hyytelömäiset aineet ja valmisteet,jotka voivat myös ilman ilmakehän happea aiheuttaa lämpöä, paineellinen pohjavesi (artesian water, confined water). (various references)

French

confiné, enfermé, en couche, emprisonné, détenu (convict). (various references)

German

begrenzte (narrow). (various references)

Greek 

περιορισμένοσ (bound, finite, pent, poky, qualified, restricted). (various references)

Hebrew 

מו�'בל (finite, handicapped, limited, narrow, stringent), רתוק (binding, chained, chaining, confinement, connected, linkage, linked, tie up). (various references)

Hungarian

korlátozott (limitary, limited, narrow, qualified, restd, restrained, restricted), határos (adjacent, bordering, bounded, circumjacent, conterminous, contiguous, limitrophe, neighboring, neighbouring, to abut), gyermekágyas asszony. (various references)

Indonesian

terjepit (impacted). (various references)

Italian

ristretto (cramped, exclusive, limitary, limited, mean, narrow, narrowed, scanty, select), limitato (cramped, finite, lidded, limited, narrow, restricted). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

狭い (narrow, small). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

せまい (donating rice, narrow, rice given in charity, small). (various references)

Korean 

수감하�". (various references)

Manx

coon (narrow, narrow-minded, poky, strait, tight-fitting), ayns y chorneil (expecting). (various references)

Pig Latin

onfinedcay

Portuguese

confinado (restricted). (various references)

Romanian

spaţiu restrâns (confined space), naşte (appear, be confined, be delivered of a child, beget, breed, bring forth, call into being, give birth to, rise). (various references)

Russian 

страдающий запором, узкий (hidebound, incapacious, insular, narrow, narrow-minded, one-idea'd, one-ideaed, slimline, suburban), отбывающий наказание, ограниченный (blinkered, borne, bound, clannish, cramped, finite, groovy, handicapped, hidebound, illiberal, incapacious, limitary, limited, limited to, meager, meagre, narrow, narrow gauge, narrow minded, narrow-minded, one track, parochial, qualified, restrained, restricted, scant, scanty, small minded, small-scale), на сносях. (various references)

Scottish

dlùth (close, close; confined, nigh, the warp of a web, tight, warp of a web). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zatvoren (cloistered, closed, jailed, landlocked, not public, reserved, unopened), ograničen (constrained, contracted, finite, limited, parochial, qualified, restricted, scanty, sheepish). (various references)

Spanish

confinado (bound), reducido (abridged, depletive, limited, low, lower, narrow, reduced, restricted, shrunken), limitado (abridged, finite, limited, ltd, narrow gauge, narrow minded, qualified, restricted, single track, tied), estado de parto, estado a lado de. (various references)

Swedish

instängd (cabined, frowsty, frowsy, frowzy, fuggy, fusty, pent, shut up). (various references)

Turkish

sınırlanmış (limited, terminate), loğusa, kapatılmış (closed, covered, pent up, shut), hapsedilmiş (imprisoned, pent up). (various references)

Ukrainian

ув'язнений (convict, imprisoned, lagger, pent), вузький (cramp, limited, narrow, one track, one-ideaed, petty, small minded, stuffy, suburban), обмежений (bat-minded, borne, contracted, cramp, cramped, finite, illiberal, insular, limited, local, meager, meagre, narrow, narrow minded, one sided, one track, one-ideaed, one-liner, parochial, pinched, provincial, pure, qualified, restrained, restricted, restrictive, scant, shallow-brained, simple minded, small, small-scale, straitened, terminate). (various references)

Welsh

cyfyng (difficult, narrow), caethiwus (confining, tied), caeth (bond, bondman, close, slave). (various references)

angusta, angustam, angusti, angustiorem, angusto, angustos, angustum, angustus, cohibita, conclusae, conclusi, conclusis, conclusus, conclususque. (various references)

clos. (various references)

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

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

Derivations

Words ending with "confined": unconfined. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Confined" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: conbined, confimed, confin, confineth, contined. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: confide, confine.

-2 letters: codein, coifed, coined, conine, conned, finned, foined.

-3 letters: coden, coned, conin, donne, fiend, fined, inned, nonce.

-4 letters: cedi, cine, cion, code, coed, coif, coin, cone, coni, conn, deco, defi, deni, dice, dine, done, fend, feod, fice, fico, fido, find, fine, fino, foci, foin, fond, iced, icon, info, neif, neon, nice, nide.

+1 letter: confident.

+2 letters: cofinanced, confidante, confidence, functioned, uncoffined, unconfined.

+3 letters: confidantes, confidences, confidently, fecundation, noninfected, unconfirmed.

+4 letters: confidential, disinfection, fecundations, noncertified, unreinforced.

+5 letters: confederating, confederation, confidingness, confirmedness, densification, disinfections, malfunctioned, misfunctioned, nonclassified, nonconfidence, overconfident.