even vs limit

even

adj
  • parallel; on a level; reaching the same limit. 

  • Flat and level. 

  • Equal in proportion, quantity, size, etc. 

  • On equal monetary terms; neither owing nor being owed. 

  • On equal terms of a moral sort; quits. 

  • Convenient for rounding other numbers to; for example, ending in a zero. 

  • Without great variation. 

  • Divisible by two. 

noun
  • An even number. 

verb
  • To make flat and level. 

adv
  • In reality; implying an extreme example in the case mentioned, as compared to the implied reality. 

  • Emphasizing a comparative. 

  • Signalling a correction of one's previous utterance; rather, that is. 

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. 

How often have the words even and limit occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )