limit – English noun declension

English noun forms of limit

Noun: limit
Singularlimit
Plurallimits

Sample Sentences

  • There are several existing limits to executive power.
  • Two drinks is my limit tonight.
  • It is the conductor which communicates to the inhabitants of regions beyond its limit […] [1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, chapter 21, in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC:]
  • Ever he would wander, selfcompelled, to the extreme limit of his cometary orbit, beyond the fixed stars and variable suns and telescopic planets, astronomical waifs and strays, to the extreme boundary of space […] [1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 17]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:]
  • No limit / Not none that I can see / No limit / Not one, not one / Not one for you or me / No limit / Well, it can go until eternity, yeah / No limits to our love, girl [1978, Breakwater, “No Limit”, in Breakwater:]
  • At the time, there seemed to be no limit to the size of ever-larger private equity deals, with banks falling over each other to arrange financing on generous terms and to invest money from their own private equity arms. [2012 March 6, Dan McCrum, Nicole Bullock and Guy Chazan, Financial Times, “Utility buyout loses power in shale gas revolution”]
  • The sequence of reciprocals has zero as its limit.
  • Category theory defines a very general concept of limit.
  • the limit of a walk, of a town, or of a country
  • As eager of the chase, the maid / Beyond the forest's verdant limits strayed. [1713, [Alexander] Pope, Windsor-Forest. […], London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC:]
  • "Like many other large resorts, the town operated electric tramways, with open-topped cars. The journey down the steep incline to the harbour must have been exhilarating at times, testing the brakes on the vehicles to the limit." [2021 September 8, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Electric tramways at the heart of our seaside story”, in RAIL, number 939, page 59:]
  • The archdeacon hath divided it / Into three limits very equally. [c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:]
  • the dateless limit of thy dear exile [1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:]
  • The limit of your lives is out. [c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:]
  • I prithee, give no limits to my tongue. [c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:]
  • Englehorn looked at his employer in incredulous admiration. ‘You’re the limit,’ he declared. [1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 63:]

Etymology

From Middle English limit, from Old French limit, from oblique stem of Latin līmes, līmit- (“a cross-path or balk between fields, hence a boundary, boundary line or wall, any path or road, border, limit”). Displaced native Old English ġemǣre. Doublet of limes. See: Middle English Nouns 'limit', Latin Nouns 'līmes'.

Verbs referencing "limit"

Hungarian Nouns limit, German Nouns Limit, Irish Nouns limistéar, Finnish Nouns limiitti.