Meaning of حد in English
- That which indicates or fixes a limit or extent, or marks a bound, as of a territory; a bounding or separating line; a real or imaginary limit.
- Extended.
- Space or degree to which a thing is extended; hence, superficies; compass; bulk; size; length; as, an extent of country or of line; extent of information or of charity.
- Degree; measure; proportion.
- A peculiar species of execution upon debts due to the crown, under which the lands and goods of the debtor may be seized to secure payment.
- A process of execution by which the lands and goods of a debtor are valued and delivered to the creditor.
- The act or practice of maliciously setting fires; arson.
- Alt. of Incoherency
- That which terminates, circumscribes, restrains, or confines; the bound, border, or edge; the utmost extent; as, the limit of a walk, of a town, of a country; the limits of human knowledge or endeavor.
- The space or thing defined by limits.
- That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
- A restriction; a check; a curb; a hindrance.
- A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic; a differentia.
- A determinate quantity, to which a variable one continually approaches, and may differ from it by less than any given difference, but to which, under the law of variation, the variable can never become exactly equivalent.
- To apply a limit to, or set a limit for; to terminate, circumscribe, or restrict, by a limit or limits; as, to limit the acreage of a crop; to limit the issue of paper money; to limit one's ambitions or aspirations; to limit the meaning of a word.
- To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region; as, a limiting friar.
- Tending to limit.
- Placed at the limit, as a guard.
- Confined within limits; limited in extent, authority, power, etc.
- Limiting, or tending to limit; restrictive.
- That which serves to limit; a boundary; border land.
- A limiter. See Limiter, 2.
- Bounded by a distinct line.
- The act of limiting; the state or condition of being limited; as, the limitation of his authority was approved by the council.
- That which limits; a restriction; a qualification; a restraining condition, defining circumstance, or qualifying conception; as, limitations of thought.
- A certain precinct within which friars were allowed to beg, or exercise their functions; also, the time during which they were permitted to exercise their functions in such a district.
- A limited time within or during which something is to be done.
- A certain period limited by statute after which the claimant shall not enforce his claims by suit.
- A settling of an estate or property by specific rules.
- A restriction of power; as, a constitutional limitation.
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