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How to pronounce limit in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms limit point, point of accumulation
Type of indefinite quantity
Type Words
Synonyms define, determine, fix, set, specify
Type of pick out, select, take, choose
Has types quantify, name, define, reset
Type Words
Synonyms bound, boundary
Type of extent
Has types brink, knife-edge, level best, maximum, heat barrier, starkness, thermal barrier, utmost, uttermost, utterness, verge, absoluteness


to the limit of his ability.
Type Words
Synonyms circumscribe, confine to
Type of decrease, lessen, minify
Has types curb, curtail, cut back, number, cap, hold down, keep down, restrict
Derivation limitation


I limit you to two visits to the pub a day.
Type Words
Synonyms bound, confine, restrict, throttle, trammel
Has types tighten up, clamp down, constrain, crack down, cramp, cumber, delimit, delimitate, demarcate, draw a line, draw the line, encumber, gate, halter, hamper, mark off, mark out, reduce, restrain, scant, skimp, stiffen, strangle, tie, tighten
Derivation limitation, limiter


limit the time you can spend with your friends.
Type Words
Synonyms demarcation, demarcation line
Type of bounds, bound, boundary
Has types edge, upper limit, three-mile limit, city limits, city limit, lower limit
Type Words
Synonyms terminal point, terminus ad quem
Type of end, ending
Type Words
Synonyms limitation
Type of indefinite quantity
Has types extremum, cutoff, peak


there are limits on the amount you can bet.
it is growing rapidly with no limitation in sight.
Type Words
Type of extremity
Has types maximum, reach, range, minimum

Examples of limit

limit
By my calculations that equates to a 60 mph speed limit, or one mile per minute.
From the stltoday.com
It would also limit the companies'investments in private equity and hedge funds.
From the businessweek.com
Those services, valued at more than $20,000, blew past the mini-reporting limit.
From the thenewstribune.com
Which side of the limit it sits on will be decided shortly by the Supreme Court.
From the washingtontimes.com
There isn't an age limit, but participants must weigh between 70 and 250 pounds.
From the dailyherald.com
In the spring of 1973, the other countries of the world had reached their limit.
From the forbes.com
Korea Express surged by 15 percent, the daily permissible limit, to 106,500 won.
From the bloomberg.com
The book also has recipes for those who must limit sugar intake or avoid gluten.
From the kentucky.com
Pregnant women have long been told to limit the amount of caffeine they consume.
From the voanews.com
More examples
  • Restrict: place limits on (extent or access); "restrict the use of this parking lot"; "limit the time you can spend with your friends"
  • The greatest possible degree of something; "what he did was beyond the bounds of acceptable behavior"; "to the limit of his ability"
  • Restrict or confine, "I limit you to two visits to the pub a day"
  • Terminus ad quem: final or latest limiting point
  • As far as something can go
  • Specify: decide upon or fix definitely; "fix the variables"; "specify the parameters"
  • In category theory, a branch of mathematics, the abstract notion of a limit captures the essential properties of universal constructions such as products and inverse limits. ...
  • In music theory, limit or harmonic limit is a way of characterizing the harmony found in a piece or genre of music, or the harmonies that can be made using a particular scale. ...
  • In mathematics, especially in the study of dynamical systems, a limit set is the state a dynamical system reaches after an infinite amount of time has passed, by either going forward or backwards in time. ...