limit vs take away

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. 

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. 

take away

verb
  • To prevent, or limit, someone from being somewhere, or from doing something. 

  • To subtract or diminish something. 

  • To remove something and put it in a different place. 

  • To leave a memory or impression in one's mind that you think about later. 

  • To make someone leave a place and go somewhere else. Usually not with the person's consent. 

  • To remove a person, usually a family member or other close friend or acquaintance, by kidnapping or killing the person. 

  • To remove something, either material or abstract, so that a person no longer has it. 

noun
  • Actions of subtraction or subtracting exercises. 

prep
  • minus 

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