limit vs wind-up

limit

noun
  • The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge. 

  • 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 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. 

adj
  • Being a fixed limit game. 

verb
  • To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries. 

  • To have a limit in a particular set. 

wind-up

noun
  • The end or conclusion of something. 

  • A punch line of a joke or comedy routine. 

  • The phase of making a pitch where the pitcher moves his or her arm backwards before throwing the ball. 

  • A circular hand gesture, supposed to represent the winding on of film, used to signal to a performer to finish quickly. 

  • A humorous attempt to fool somebody, a practical joke in which the victim is encouraged to believe something untrue. 

adj
  • Needing to be wound up in order to function. 

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