bail vs limit

bail

verb
  • To confine. 

  • To keep (a traveller) detained in order to rob them; to corner (a wild animal); loosely, to detain, hold up. 

  • To secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail. 

  • To secure the head of a cow during milking. 

  • To hand over personal property to be held temporarily by another as a bailment. 

  • To release a person under such guarantee. 

  • To remove water from (a boat) by scooping it out. 

  • To remove (water) from a boat by scooping it out. 

  • To secure (a cow) by placing its head in a bail for milking. 

  • To set free; to deliver; to release. 

  • To fail to meet a commitment (to a person). 

  • To exit quickly. 

noun
  • Release from imprisonment on payment of such money. 

  • Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial. 

  • A frame to restrain a cow during milking or feeding. 

  • A bucket or scoop used for removing water from a boat etc. 

  • The person providing such payment. 

  • A person who bails water out of a boat. 

  • A hoop, ring or handle (especially of a kettle or bucket). 

  • One of the two wooden crosspieces that rest on top of the stumps to form a wicket. 

  • A stall for a cow (or other animal) (usually tethered with a semi-circular hoop). 

  • A hoop, ring, or other object used to connect a pendant to a necklace. 

  • Normally curved handle suspended between sockets as a drawer pull. This may also be on a kettle or pail. 

  • A hinged bar as a restraint for animals, or on a typewriter. 

limit

verb
  • To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries. 

  • To have a limit in a particular set. 

adj
  • Being a fixed limit game. 

noun
  • A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go. 

  • The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely. 

  • A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic. 

  • Fixed limit. 

  • The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge. 

  • The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race. 

  • A person who is exasperating, intolerable, astounding, etc. 

  • A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit and the lower limit of a sequence: if the upper and lower limits are different, then the sequence has no limit (i.e., does not converge). 

  • Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit. 

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