limit vs standing

limit

noun
  • Fixed limit. 

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

adj
  • Being a fixed limit game. 

standing

noun
  • Duration. 

  • The act of a person who stands, or a place where someone stands. 

  • Position or reputation in society or a profession. 

  • The position of a team in a league or of a player in a list. 

  • The right of a party to bring a legal action, based on the relationship between that party and the matter to which the action relates. 

  • Room in which to park a vehicle or vehicles 

adj
  • Erect, not cut down. 

  • Performed from an erect position. 

  • Not transitory; not liable to fade or vanish; lasting. 

  • Not movable; fixed. 

  • Stagnant; not moving or flowing. 

  • Remaining in force or status. 

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