lame vs limit

lame

noun
  • A stupid or undesirable person. 

  • A lamina; a thin layer or plate of material, as in certain kinds of armor. 

  • A set of joined overlapping metal plates. 

  • Kitchen tool for scoring bread dough before baking. 

verb
  • To cause (a person or animal) to become lame. 

adj
  • Moving with pain or difficulty on account of injury, defect or temporary obstruction of a function. 

  • Unable to walk properly because of a problem with one's feet or legs. 

  • Hobbling; limping; inefficient; imperfect. 

  • Failing to be cool, funny, interesting or relevant. 

  • Unconvincing or unbelievable. 

limit

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

  • 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 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. 

adj
  • Being a fixed limit game. 

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

  • To have a limit in a particular set. 

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