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# confines

«confines» in Mova's school dictionary: **The edges or limits of a place: «within the confines of…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (plural only: the confines)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The edges or limits of a place: «within the confines of the school grounds». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confines/#m1)

2) The limits of an idea, rule or activity: «within the confines of the law». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confines/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In school rules and safety talks: «Pupils must stay within the confines of the playground». In stories, characters long to escape «the confines» of a small room, a prison or a dull life. Phrases: «within the confines of», «beyond the confines of», «the narrow confines of».

### examples

- Pupils must stay within the confines of the school grounds at lunch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confines/#x1)
- The puppy was happy to escape the confines of its crate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confines/#x2)
- In the narrow confines of the cave, we had to crawl. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confines/#x3)
- Artists like to work beyond the confines of the usual rules. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confines/#x4)
- Everything must be done within the confines of the law. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confines/#x5)
- The fox lived within the confines of the city park. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confines/#x6)

### note

Always plural and usually with «the»: «the confines», never «a confine». Stress on the first syllable: CON-fines (unlike the verb con-FINE). It is a formal or written word; in speech people say «inside» or «the limits of».

### In the corpora

- [He hath described a boundary upon the face of the waters, unto the confines of light and darkness.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.665/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «confines» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confines/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.