limit vs one

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. 

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. 

one

noun
  • A particularly special or compatible person or thing. 

  • One run scored by hitting the ball and running between the wickets; a single. 

  • A joke or amusing anecdote. 

  • A one-dollar bill. 

  • Used instead of ! to amplify an exclamation, parodying unskilled typists who forget to press the shift key while typing exclamation points, thus typing "1". 

  • The neutral element with respect to multiplication in a ring. 

  • One o'clock, either a.m. or p.m. 

  • The digit or figure 1. 

particle
  • Used to emphasize or explain something, with an implied antecedent. 

  • Used at the end of a sentence to highlight the characteristics of someone or something. 

  • A nominalizer; used to form a noun phrase without a head noun. 

num
  • The cardinality of the smallest nonempty set. 

  • The first positive number in the set of natural numbers. 

  • The number represented by the Arabic numeral 1; the numerical value equal to that cardinal number. 

  • The ordinality of an element which has no predecessor, usually called first or number one. 

pron
  • The first mentioned of two things or people, as opposed to the other. 

  • Functions as a relative pronoun at the end of a relative clause. 

  • Any person (applying to people in general). 

  • One thing (among a group of others); one member of a group. 

  • Any person, entity or thing. 

  • Used as a noun substituent following a possessive determiner. 

verb
  • To cause to become one; to gather into a single whole; to unite. 

adj
  • Whole, entire. 

  • Being an unknown person with the specified name; see also "a certain". 

  • The same. 

  • In agreement. 

  • Being a preeminent example. 

  • Sole, only. 

  • Being a single, unspecified thing; a; any. 

  • Of a period of time, being particular. 

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