What's the difference between limit and limitless?

Limit


Definition:

  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) The space or thing defined by limits.
  • (v. t.) That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
  • (v. t.) A restriction; a check; a curb; a hindrance.
  • (v. t.) A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic; a differentia.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. i.) To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region; as, a limiting friar.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Serum levels of both dihydralazine and metabolites were very low and particularly below the detection limit.
  • (2) This should not be a serious limitation to the application of the RIA in the detection of venous thrombosis.
  • (3) The rise of malaria despite of control measures involves several factors: the house spraying is no more accepted by a large percentage of house holders and the alternative larviciding has only a limited efficacy; the houses of American Indians have no walls to be sprayed; there is a continuous introduction of parasites by migrants.
  • (4) Increased infusion flow rate did not increase the limiting frequency.
  • (5) The extent of the infectious process was limited, however, because the life span of the cultures was not significantly shortened, the yields of infectious virus per immunofluorescent cell were at all times low, and most infected cells contained only a few well-delineated small masses of antigen, suggestive of an abortive infection.
  • (6) Limited biopsic retroperitoneal lymphnode dissection subsequently extended following the result of the frozen section histology.
  • (7) In addition, the fact that microheterogeneity may occur without limit in the mannans of the strains suggests that antibodies with unlimited diverse specificities are produced directed against these antigenic varieties as well.
  • (8) The specific limited trypsinolysis of bacteriophage T7 RNA polymerase (T7RP) was performed in the presence of various components of the polymerase reaction and some GTP-analogs--irreversible inhibitors of the enzyme.
  • (9) This postulate is supported by a limited study of the serovars present among the isolates.
  • (10) Breast reconstruction should not be limited to the requiring patients, but should represent, in selected cases with favourable prognosis, an integrative and complementary procedure of the treatment.
  • (11) As increases to the Isa allowance are based on the CPI inflation figure for the year to the previous September, the new data suggests the current Isa limit of £15,240 will remain unchanged next year.
  • (12) Conditions for limited digestion of the heterodimer by subtilisin, removing only the carboxyl terminus, were determined.
  • (13) Furthermore the limit between hearing aid fitting an cochlear implantation is discussed.
  • (14) Comprehensive regulations are being developed to limit human exposure to contamination in drinking water by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the authority of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA).
  • (15) Direct limiting effects of hypothermia on tissue O2 delivery and muscle oxidative metabolism as well as vasoconstriction and arteriovenous shunting associated with CPB procedures are likely to be involved in the above mentioned alterations of cell metabolism.
  • (16) Their disadvantages - the expensive equipment and the time-consuming procedure respectively - limit their widespread use.
  • (17) The lower limit (LL) of CBF autoregulation was calculated by a computerized program and tested for different factors for correction of the PaCO2-induced changes in CBF.
  • (18) Immunochemical techniques, in particular ELISA are available for only a very limited number of NM (e.g.
  • (19) Only one E. coli strain, containing two plasmids that encode endo-pectate lyases, exo-pectate lyase, and endo-polygalacturonase, caused limited maceration.
  • (20) Initiation of the alternative pathway by the cryptococcal capsule is characterized by a lag in C3 accumulation and the appearance of a limited number of focal initiation sites which resemble those observed when the alternative pathway is activated by zymosan and nonencapsulated cryptococci.

Limitless


Definition:

  • (a.) Having no limits; unbounded; boundless.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) More pertinent is how this became such a pressing matter of government concern – the conversation around early years is becoming increasingly prescriptive, with specific reference to the neuroscience of the infant brain: Aric Sigman came out this week with a paper in which he drew an express link between going to nursery, having raised levels of cortisol (the stress hormone), and this leading to almost limitless problems in later life.
  • (2) "Radio must battle in a world of fully mobile audio delivering limitless choice.
  • (3) Talking this week to several, I heard the same story of exorbitant fees and shocking interest rates throttling real production, while Adair Turner's "socially useless" financial products attract limitless bubble credit.
  • (4) All of your data – from your personal and professional life – is accessible through all of your various devices, as it's stored in the cloud, a remote digital-storage system with near limitless capacity.
  • (5) By the mid-1950s, a frenzy of change was sweeping the world in a wave of postwar modernism … By the 1960s the industrialised countries were well on the way to creating what many imagined would be a limitless Age of Convenience.
  • (6) It’s an eerie setting in many ways, a limitless vista of futuristic visions and broken dreams, of soaring ambition and once-modern flying machines brought sadly back down to earth.
  • (7) Obligatory series based on a movie : Limitless , Rush Hour .
  • (8) They suggest that instead of a blank cheque to require the collection of limitless categories of communications data, each specific type, such as internet protocol addresses or weblog histories, should require specific parliamentary approval.
  • (9) Yet his apparently limitless energy has kept spirits up during an exhausting shoot.
  • (10) While Everton would hardly have deserved an interval lead, it was a reminder of how wasteful City were being with almost limitless possession.
  • (11) I was adopted at the age of just four months – given the stability, security and love which allowed me to enjoy limitless opportunities.
  • (12) Sometimes we can make £400 in a day.” Mehari does it because he loves to travel – since he came to the UK from Eritrea, escaping the national service there which is, in effect, limitless servitude to the government with pocket money, he’s been everywhere.
  • (13) "Money was virtually free – in the case of Japan, where it had zero interest rates, it was literally free – and it was available in limitless quantities, which does not correspond to any definition of normalcy, so that created a bubble and bubbles burst."
  • (14) In his own flat, glossy, beautifully empty way, then, Gary Hume is very much a painter of everyday life in all its rich and limitless strangeness.
  • (15) But after a rush of attention this week, some much deserved focus is back on the surveillance state's other seemingly limitless program: the warrantless searches made possible by Section 702 of the Fisa Amendments Act, which allows the NSA to do all sorts of spying on Americans and people around the world – all for reasons that, in most cases, have nothing to do with terrorism.
  • (16) The second was the lobbying campaign in which all bidders took advantage of grey areas in the shabbily defined rules surrounding the dual race for the 2018 and 2022 tournaments to offer to build training academies, arrange or host lucrative friendlies and do everything in their power and budget (limitless, in Qatar's case) to win votes.
  • (17) Second, Egypt, blessed with fertile land, regular irrigation water and limitless sun, was a net exporter of food and textiles before British colonialists shifted crop production towards cotton to feed the mills driving their industrial revolution, and by 1914 cotton accounted for 92% of the total value of Egyptian exports.
  • (18) As editor-in-chief of Zillow , a mobile and online real estate marketplace whose foundation was built on Zestimate home values, I've long understood that the web is where it's all happening for networking and a kind of limitless democratization of all kinds of mediums and industries.
  • (19) Sometime, somewhere in the limitless future it will be listened to, and, if there is intelligent life in another galaxy and creatures from outer space do land on earth having learned English from BBC broadcasts, the chances are they will not say 'Take me to your leader' but 'How bona to vada your dolly old eek!'"
  • (20) Grabbing a cab in the capital is an exercise that demands virtually limitless supplies of time, patience and luck.