dirty vs limit

dirty

adj
  • Out of tune. 

  • Containing data needing to be written back to memory or disk. 

  • Unclean; covered with or containing unpleasant substances such as dirt or grime. 

  • Dishonourable; violating accepted standards or rules. 

  • Corrupt, illegal, or improper. 

  • Having the undercarriage or flaps in the down position. 

  • Morally unclean; obscene or indecent, especially sexually. 

  • Carrying illegal drugs among one's possessions or inside of one's bloodstream. 

  • Sleety; gusty; stormy. 

  • Of an alcoholic beverage, especially a cocktail or mixed drink: served with the juice of olives. 

  • Of color, discolored by impurities. 

  • Spreading harmful radiation over a wide area. 

  • Of food, indulgent in an unhealthy way. 

  • That makes one unclean; corrupting, infecting. 

  • Used as an intensifier, especially in conjunction with "great". 

verb
  • To debase by distorting the real nature of (something). 

  • To make (something) dirty. 

  • To stain or tarnish (somebody) with dishonor. 

  • To become soiled. 

adv
  • In a dirty manner. 

limit

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. 

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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