· the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase

Synonym(s): modification, qualifying

Hypernym(s): grammatical_relation

· place limits on (extent or amount or access); "restrict the use of this parking lot"; "limit the time you can spend with your friends"

Synonym(s): restrict, trammel, bound, confine, throttle

· restrict or confine within limits; "I limit you to two visits to the pub a day"; "please confine your questions to the topic"; "our actions are circumscribed by our biology, personality, and by the social and cultural context into which we are born"

Synonym(s): circumscribe, confine_to

Hypernym(s): decrease, lessen, minify

· decide upon or fix definitely; "fix the variables"; "specify the parameters"

Synonym(s): specify, set, determine, define, fix

Hypernym(s): choose, take, select, pick_out

· restricting the scope or freedom of action

Synonym(s): confining, constraining, constrictive, restricting

· strictly limiting the reference of a modified word or phrase; "the restrictive clause in `Each made a list of the books that had influenced him' limits the books on the list to only those particular ones defined by the clause"