confining in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for confining 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 confining in the French»English Dictionary

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endiguer

to confine

déconsigner soldats, unité

to lift the order confining [sb] to barracks

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

confining in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for confining 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 confining 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

confining 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

It does no commercial business and discounts no commercial paper, confining its loans only to marketable collateral.

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Various examples exist in particle physics and condensed matter, where certain gauge theories exhibit transitions between confining and deconfining phases.

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They rejected both Marxism and modernization theory as alien and confining.

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He was demanding $100 trillion, as well as $1 billion per day in interest for unlawfully confining him.

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The domains point in different directions, confining the field lines to microscopic loops between neighboring domains, so the combined fields cancel at a distance.

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Despite his success, he was beginning to find the unremitting rigors of being in a company confining.

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I'm not too fond of being in a studioit's too contrived and too confining.

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To the extent that colleges want to approach that culture, they display willful selfishness in confining their sights to the present.

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She argued that teachers' use of control and power over students dulls the students' enthusiasm and teaches obedience to authority, confining each pupil to a role, assembly-line approach to learning.

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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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