(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.
Overstay
Definition:
(v. t.) To stay beyond the time or the limits of; as, to overstay the appointed time.
Example Sentences:
(1) His parents had overstayed the family visas they acquired as students to travel to the US from South Korea in 1981.
(2) However, in return she wanted India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi , to help with efforts to send home Indian nationals who have overstayed their visas and are living illegally in the UK.
(3) No 10 said it was also closing a loophole whereby someone that has worked in the UK and paid national insurance could continue to claim benefits even if they overstayed their visa.
(4) • Those who successfully claim asylum after travelling through a safe country, or those who overstay a visa, only being given a minimum stay of protection and not having an automatic right to stay.
(5) A further 57 were visa overstayers, 96 were asylum seekers who arrived by boat, and five asylum seekers who arrived by plane.
(6) Will they apologise to the "suspected visa overstayer", whose badly pixellated and easily identifiable photograph they published to the world, if it turns out he was merely part of their huge backlog of applications?
(7) He maintains that 40% of illegal immigrants with visas overstay their visits.
(8) Theresa May's plans for a £3,000 cash bond to deter "high risk" Asian and African short-term visitors from overstaying in Britain are being hastily rewritten after Nick Clegg declined to sign off the details of a pilot scheme due to start in November.
(9) I found that many of the non-EEA spouses refused residence cards were overstayers," said Vine.
(10) It advises drivers who accidentally or unintentionally overstay the free parking period and believe they have mitigating circumstances to contact the duty manager before leaving the site.
(11) More does need to be done to stop people overstaying illegally when their visas run out – whether they arrived on student visas, work visas or tourist visas,” Cooper said.
(12) "This summer the UKBA launched a UK-wide operation to remove overstayers and we have already seen 1,800 removals since the campaign started," Green said.
(13) But ministers say there is a loophole for migrants who entered illegally or have overstayed their leave and are not therefore subject to current conditions of stay.
(14) Since 2008, more immigrants have overstayed their visas than have crossed the border legally.
(15) Physicians performances were measured on the basis of the quality of medical care provided, the appropriateness of hospital admissions, and the appropriateness of hospital stays, including understays and overstays.
(16) The prime minister’s decision to demand to return Indians overstaying their visas received a sceptical response from some of the Indian journalists covering the event.
(17) Borrego and her family moved from Mexico to Houston in 2003 but overstayed their visas.
(18) To try to find the less than one tenth of a percent of the population who they suspect have overstayed?
(19) The 150,000 cases in this previously undisclosed backlog are a separate group from those who entered Britain illegally or who overstayed their visas, or who are failed asylum seekers.
(20) Instead they enter Britain legally and openly on flights into Heathrow airport on visas that they then breach by overstaying.