limiting
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase
Types & categories
Related & opposite
Sense 2 adjective
restricting the scope or freedom of action
Related & opposite
Sense 3 adjective
strictly limiting the reference of a modified word or phrase
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
Related & opposite
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | modify |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | grammatical relation |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | restrictiveness |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | apposition |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | restrictive |
| 3 | domain topic | Related & opposite | grammar |
| 3 | similar to | Related & opposite | restrictive |