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Meaning of सीमा in English

  • State of abutting.
  • That on or against which a body abuts or presses
  • The solid part of a pier or wall, etc., which receives the thrust or lateral pressure of an arch, vault, or strut.
  • A fixed point or surface from which resistance or reaction is obtained, as the cylinder head of a steam engine, the fulcrum of a lever, etc.
  • In breech-loading firearms, the block behind the barrel which receives the pressure due to recoil.
  • Circuit or compass.
  • The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink.
  • A boundary; a frontier of a state or of the settled part of a country; a frontier district.
  • A strip or stripe arranged along or near the edge of something, as an ornament or finish.
  • A narrow flower bed.
  • To touch at the edge or boundary; to be contiguous or adjacent; -- with on or upon as, Connecticut borders on Massachusetts.
  • To approach; to come near to; to verge.
  • To make a border for; to furnish with a border, as for ornament; as, to border a garment or a garden.
  • To be, or to have, contiguous to; to touch, or be touched, as by a border; to be, or to have, near the limits or boundary; as, the region borders a forest, or is bordered on the north by a forest.
  • To confine within bounds; to limit.
  • of Bind
  • The external or limiting line, either real or imaginary, of any object or space; that which limits or restrains, or within which something is limited or restrained; limit; confine; extent; boundary.
  • To limit; to terminate; to fix the furthest point of extension of; -- said of natural or of moral objects; to lie along, or form, a boundary of; to inclose; to circumscribe; to restrain; to confine.
  • To name the boundaries of; as, to bound France.
  • To move with a sudden spring or leap, or with a succession of springs or leaps; as the beast bounded from his den; the herd bounded across the plain.
  • To rebound, as an elastic ball.
  • To make to bound or leap; as, to bound a horse.
  • To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; as, to bound a ball on the floor.
  • A leap; an elastic spring; a jump.
  • Rebound; as, the bound of a ball.
  • Spring from one foot to the other.
  • imp. & p. p. of Bind.
  • Restrained by a hand, rope, chain, fetters, or the like.
  • Inclosed in a binding or cover; as, a bound volume.
  • Under legal or moral restraint or obligation.
  • Constrained or compelled; destined; certain; -- followed by the infinitive; as, he is bound to succeed; he is bound to fail.
  • Resolved; as, I am bound to do it.
  • Constipated; costive.
  • Ready or intending to go; on the way toward; going; -- with to or for, or with an adverb of motion; as, a ship is bound to Cadiz, or for Cadiz.
  • 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.
  • A stream or rivulet; a burn.
  • A bound; a boundary; a limit. Hence: Point aimed at; goal.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • The limit or exterior line encompassing a place; a boundary; a confine; limit of jurisdiction or authority; -- often in the plural; as, the precincts of a state.
  • A district within certain boundaries; a minor territorial or jurisdictional division; as, an election precinct; a school precinct.
  • A parish or prescribed territory attached to a church, and taxed for its support.
  • The quality or condition of being striated.
  • A stria; as, the striations on a shell.
  • of Border
  • of Boundary
  • One who, or that which, limits; a boundary.
  • A kind of molding. See Cyma.

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