confine in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for confine in the English»French Dictionary

I.confine [Brit kənˈfʌɪn, Am kənˈfaɪn] VB trans

1. confine (in room, cell, prison, ghetto):

confine person

confiner (in, to dans)

confine mental patient

interner (in, to dans)

confine animal

enfermer (in dans)

to be confined to bed

être alité

to be confined to the house

être obligé de rester à la maison

to be confined to barracks MIL

être consigné au quartier

2. confine (limit):

confine comments etc

limiter (to à)

the problem is not confined to old people

le problème ne concerne pas uniquement les personnes âgées

3. confine dated MED:

to be confined

être en couches

II.to confine oneself to VB refl

to confine oneself to refl:

to confine oneself to

se contenter de

to confine oneself to doing

se contenter de faire

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to talk in/confine oneself to generalities

parler de/s'en tenir à des généralités

Translations for confine in the French»English Dictionary

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endiguer

to confine

claustrer

to confine

consigner MIL soldat

to confine (dans, à to)

séquestrer LAW personne

to confine [sb] illegally

cantonner qn dans un lieu

to confine sb to a place

limite tes recherches à un aspect particulier du problème

confine ou restrict your research to a particular aspect of the problem

limitez-vous au sujet

confine yourself to the subject

confiner qn dans une pièce

to confine sb to a room

clouer au lit/chez soi

to confine [sb] to bed/to one's home

confine in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for confine in the English»French Dictionary

I.confine [ˈkɒnfaɪn, Am ˈkɑ:n-] VB trans

1. confine (limit):

confine

limiter

to be confined to bed

être cloué au lit

2. confine (imprison, keep indoors):

confine

enfermer

3. confine MIL:

to be confined to quarters

être consigné

II.confine [ˈkɒnfaɪn, Am ˈkɑ:n-] N

the confines

les limites fpl

to be beyond the confines of sb's understanding

dépasser la compréhension de qn

Translations for confine in the French»English Dictionary

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aliter

to confine to bed

cantonner qn dans qc

to confine sb to sth

se cantonner dans qc

to confine oneself to sth

enfermer qn/qc dans le rôle de ...

to confine sb/sth in the role of ...

s'en tenir à qc

to confine oneself to sth

confine Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to confine sb/sth in the role of ...

enfermer qn/qc dans le rôle de ...

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

This parasitic mode of life is most often confined to the larvae with the adults usually leading free lives.

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However, his repertoire was not confined to opera.

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From that time his surveying was confined to a part-time practice.

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The roar of the falls reverberates against their rocky confines.

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Once inside, the electrons are confined by the magnetic fields.

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They were confined grids rather than a free-roam environment.

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Even if they are not confined, they are usually guarded by someone and kept within a certain area or distance.

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At high frequencies, current density can increase because the conducting region in a wire becomes confined near its surface, the so-called skin effect.

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Now disabled, he was henceforth confined to bed.

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The rhythm is maintained not by an explicit taalam, but by confining the voicing to syllables of more or less fixed length.

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