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root((FIN))
confine
1、 To keep （someone or something） within limits.
2、 To hold （someone） in a location.
🌱He had heard the bad news from the CEO, but when he spoke to his employees he confined his remarks to a few hints that sales had slipped. 🌳Confine means basically to keep someone or something within borders. Someone confined to a bedroom or a wheelchair is too ill or disabled to be anywhere else. A person under "house arrest" is confined to his or her house by the government. At a business meeting, the discussion may be confined to a single topic. A town may keep industrial development confined to one area by means of zoning. And someone confined to the state prison for 20 years has probably committed quite a serious crime. definitive 1、 Authoritative and final.
2、 Specifying perfectly or precisely.
🌱The team's brilliant research provided a definitive description of the virus and its strange mutation patterns. 🌳Something definitive is complete and final. A definitive example is the perfect example. A definitive answer is usually a strong yes or no. A definitive biography contains everything we'll ever need to know about someone. Ella Fitzgerald's famous 1950s recordings of American songs have even been called definitive—but no one ever wanted them to be the last. finite Having definite limits.
🌱Her ambitions were infinite, but her wealth was finite. 🌳It has come as a shock to many of us to realize that resources such as oil—and the atmosphere's ability to absorb greenhouse gases—are finite rather than unlimited. The debate continues as to whether the universe is finite or infinite and, if it's finite, how to think about what lies beyond it. Religion has always concerned itself with the question of the finite （that is, human life on earth） versus the infinite （God, eternity, and infinity）. But finite is mostly used in scientific writing, often with the meaning "definitely measurable." infinitesimal Extremely or immeasurably small.
🌱Looking more closely at the research data, he now saw an odd pattern of changes so infinitesimal that they hadn't been noticed before. 🌳Just as infinite describes something immeasurable （"without limit"）, infinitesimal describes something endlessly small. When Antonie van Leeuwenhoek invented the microscope in the 17th century, he was able to see organisms that had been thought too infinitesimally small to exist. But today's electron microscope allows us to see infinitesimal aspects of matter that even Leeuwenhoek could not have imagined.
2、 To hold （someone） in a location.
🌱He had heard the bad news from the CEO, but when he spoke to his employees he confined his remarks to a few hints that sales had slipped. 🌳Confine means basically to keep someone or something within borders. Someone confined to a bedroom or a wheelchair is too ill or disabled to be anywhere else. A person under "house arrest" is confined to his or her house by the government. At a business meeting, the discussion may be confined to a single topic. A town may keep industrial development confined to one area by means of zoning. And someone confined to the state prison for 20 years has probably committed quite a serious crime. definitive 1、 Authoritative and final.
2、 Specifying perfectly or precisely.
🌱The team's brilliant research provided a definitive description of the virus and its strange mutation patterns. 🌳Something definitive is complete and final. A definitive example is the perfect example. A definitive answer is usually a strong yes or no. A definitive biography contains everything we'll ever need to know about someone. Ella Fitzgerald's famous 1950s recordings of American songs have even been called definitive—but no one ever wanted them to be the last. finite Having definite limits.
🌱Her ambitions were infinite, but her wealth was finite. 🌳It has come as a shock to many of us to realize that resources such as oil—and the atmosphere's ability to absorb greenhouse gases—are finite rather than unlimited. The debate continues as to whether the universe is finite or infinite and, if it's finite, how to think about what lies beyond it. Religion has always concerned itself with the question of the finite （that is, human life on earth） versus the infinite （God, eternity, and infinity）. But finite is mostly used in scientific writing, often with the meaning "definitely measurable." infinitesimal Extremely or immeasurably small.
🌱Looking more closely at the research data, he now saw an odd pattern of changes so infinitesimal that they hadn't been noticed before. 🌳Just as infinite describes something immeasurable （"without limit"）, infinitesimal describes something endlessly small. When Antonie van Leeuwenhoek invented the microscope in the 17th century, he was able to see organisms that had been thought too infinitesimally small to exist. But today's electron microscope allows us to see infinitesimal aspects of matter that even Leeuwenhoek could not have imagined.
FIN comes from the Latin word for "end" or "boundary." Final describes last things, and a finale or a finish is an ending. (And at the end of a French film, you may just see the word "Fin.") But its meaning is harder to trace in some of the other English words derived from it.🌸