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RESTRICT

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Place limits on (extent or amount or access)

Example:

limit the time you can spend with your friends

Synonyms:

bound; confine; limit; restrict; throttle; trammel

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "restrict"):

scant; skimp (limit in quality or quantity)

cumber; encumber; restrain (restrict (someone or something) so as to make free movement difficult)

delimit; delimitate; demarcate (set, mark, or draw the boundaries of something)

clamp down; crack down (repress or suppress (something regarded as undesirable))

constrain; stiffen; tighten; tighten up (severely restrict in scope or extent)

cramp; halter; hamper; strangle (prevent the progress or free movement of)

mark off; mark out (set boundaries to and delimit)

draw a line; draw the line (reasonably object (to) or set a limit (on))

gate (restrict (school boys') movement to the dormitory or campus as a means of punishment)

tie (limit or restrict to)

reduce; tighten (narrow or limit)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

restriction (an act of limiting or restricting (as by regulation))

restriction (the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary))

restrictive (serving to restrict)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Place restrictions on

Example:

curtail drinking in school

Synonyms:

curb; curtail; cut back; restrict

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "restrict" is one way to...):

circumscribe; confine to; limit (restrict or confine within limits)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "restrict"):

abridge (lessen, diminish, or curtail)

immobilise; immobilize (cause to be unable to move)

ration (restrict the consumption of a relatively scarce commodity, as during war)

control; restrict (place under restrictions; limit access to by law)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

restriction (an act of limiting or restricting (as by regulation))

restrictive (serving to restrict)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Prevent (information) from being circulated or disclosed

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "restrict" is one way to...):

keep; prevent (stop (someone or something) from doing something or being in a certain state)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 4

Meaning:

Place under restrictions; limit access to by law

Example:

that area is restricted to security personnel only

Synonyms:

control; restrict

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "restrict" is one way to...):

curb; curtail; cut back; restrict (place restrictions on)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "restrict"):

classify (declare unavailable, as for security reasons)

taboo (declare as sacred and forbidden)

localise; localize (restrict something to a particular area)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Antonym:

derestrict (make free from restrictions)

Derivation:

restriction (an act of limiting or restricting (as by regulation))

restrictive ((of tariff) protective of national interests by restricting imports)

Credits

 Context examples: 

A 9-residue human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-restricted fragment of carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA).

(Carcinoembryonic Antigen Peptide 1-6D, NCI Thesaurus)

Non-pathologic expression of these proteins is restricted to male germ cells.

(Cancer/Testis Antigen, NCI Thesaurus)

It allowed the authors to more accurately locate the third planet, but is restricted to larger deviations of the flow, greater than about 10%.

(ALMA Discovers Trio of Infant Planets around Newborn Star, ESO)

The RSL are almost all restricted to slopes steeper than 27 degrees.

(Recurring Martian Streaks: Flowing Sand, Not Water?, NASA)

As blood flow to tumors is restricted, this may result in an inhibition of tumor cell proliferation.

(NG-nitro-L-arginine, NCI Thesaurus)

A peptide cancer vaccine comprised of human leukocyte antigen HLA-A2-restricted peptide derived from a metastatic melanoma cell line of patient NA17, with potential immunomodulating and antineoplastic activity.

(NA17.A2 Peptide Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

To investigate, they restricted the diet of mice previously given full access to food.

(Memory T cells shelter in bone marrow, boosting immunity in mice with restricted diets, National Institutes of Health)

The 250 kD neurofibromin product, encoded by the tumor suppressor NF1 gene, is thought to restrict cell proliferation by functioning as a RAS-specific GTPase-activating protein.

(Neurofibromin, NCI Thesaurus)

Exosomes derived from autologous maturing dendritic cells (DCs) are pulsed with HLA-DP04-restricted MAGE-3, and HLA-A02-restricted peptides NY-ESO-1, MAGE-1, MAGE-3, and MART-1.

(NSCLC Antigen-Loaded Dendritic Cell-derived Exosomes, NCI Thesaurus)

This damage could initiate events leading to atherosclerosis (build-up of plaque), which can restrict blood flow over time.

(Bone-Like Particles Found Travelling through Human Bloodstream, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)