restrict | (verb) place limits on (extent or amount or access) | Synonyms: bound, confine, limit, throttle, trammel |
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(verb) place restrictions on | Synonyms: curb, curtail, cut back |
(verb) place under restrictions; limit access to by law | Synonyms: control |
(verb) prevent (information) from being circulated or disclosed | - |
restricted | (adjective) subject to restriction or subjected to restriction | - |
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(adjective) the lowest level of official classification for documents | - |
(adjective) restricted in meaning; (as e.g. `man' in `a tall man') | Synonyms: qualified |
restricting | (adjective) restricting the scope or freedom of action | Synonyms: confining, constraining, constrictive, limiting |
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restriction | (noun) an act of limiting or restricting (as by regulation) | Synonyms: limitation |
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(noun) the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary) | Synonyms: confinement |
(noun) a principle that limits the extent of something | Synonyms: limitation |
restrictive | (adjective) serving to restrict | - |
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(adjective) (of tariff) protective of national interests by restricting imports | - |
restrictively | (adverb) in a restrictive manner | - |
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restrictiveness | (noun) a lack of permissiveness or indulgence and a tendency to confine behavior within certain specified limits | Synonyms: unpermissiveness |
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(noun) a grammatical qualification that makes the meaning more specific (`red hat' has a more specific meaning than `hat') | - |
restroom | (noun) a toilet that is available to the public | Synonyms: comfort station, convenience, public convenience, public lavatory, public toilet, toilet facility, wash room |
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restructure | (verb) construct or form anew or provide with a new structure | Synonyms: reconstitute |
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semiterrestrial | (adjective) chiefly but not exclusively terrestrial | - |
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terrestrial | (adjective) operating or living or growing on land | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air | Synonyms: tellurian, telluric, terrene |
(adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the planet Earth or its inhabitants | Synonyms: planetary |
(adjective) of this earth | Synonyms: sublunar, sublunary |
(adjective) concerned with the world or worldly matters | Synonyms: mundane |
terrestrially | (adverb) to a land environment | - |
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(adverb) in a worldly manner | Synonyms: mundanely |
trestle | (noun) sawhorses used in pairs to support a horizontal tabletop | - |
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(noun) a supporting tower used to support a bridge | - |
trestlework | (noun) a supporting structure composed of a system of connected trestles; for a bridge or pier or scaffold e.g. | - |
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underestimate | (noun) an estimation that is too low; an estimate that is less than the true or actual value | Synonyms: underestimation, underrating, underreckoning |
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(verb) make a deliberately low estimate | Synonyms: lowball |
(verb) make too low an estimate of | Synonyms: underrate |
(verb) assign too low a value to | Synonyms: undervalue |
underestimation | (noun) an estimation that is too low; an estimate that is less than the true or actual value | Synonyms: underestimate, underrating, underreckoning |
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unforested | (adjective) not covered with forest | - |
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uninterested | (adjective) not having or showing interest | - |
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(adjective) having no care or interest in knowing | - |
uninteresting | (adjective) arousing no interest or attention or curiosity or excitement | - |
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(adjective) characteristic or suggestive of an institution especially in being uniform or dull or unimaginative | Synonyms: institutional |
uninterestingly | (adverb) in an uninteresting manner | - |
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uninterestingness | (noun) inability to capture or hold one's interest | - |
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unrest | (noun) a feeling of restless agitation | - |
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(noun) a state of agitation or turbulent change or development | Synonyms: agitation, ferment, fermentation, tempestuousness |
unrested | (adjective) not rested or refreshed | Synonyms: unrefreshed |
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unrestrained | (adjective) not subject to restraint | - |
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(adjective) marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion | Synonyms: delirious, excited, frantic, mad |
unrestrainedly | (adverb) in an unrestrained manner | - |
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unrestraint | (noun) the quality of lacking restraint | - |
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unrestricted | (adjective) not subject to or subjected to restriction | - |
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(adjective) free of restrictions on conduct | - |
(adjective) not restricted or exclusive | Synonyms: unexclusive |
(adjective) never having had security classification | Synonyms: nonsensitive |
(adjective) not restricted or modified in meaning | - |
unrestrictive | (adjective) not tending to restrict | - |
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wrest | (verb) obtain by seizing forcibly or violently, also metaphorically | - |
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wrester | (noun) someone who obtains something by pulling it violently with twisting movements | - |
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wrestle | (noun) the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat | Synonyms: grapple, grappling, hand-to-hand struggle, wrestling |
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(verb) engage in deep thought, consideration, or debate | - |
(verb) combat to overcome an opposing tendency or force | - |
(verb) engage in a wrestling match | - |
(verb) to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling) | Synonyms: squirm, twist, worm, wriggle, writhe |
wrestler | (noun) combatant who tries to throw opponent to the ground | Synonyms: grappler, matman |
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wrestling | (noun) the sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down | Synonyms: grappling, rassling |
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(noun) the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat | Synonyms: grapple, grappling, hand-to-hand struggle, wrestle |