Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
LIMITED
limited
(adjective) including only a part
limited
(adjective) not unlimited; “a limited list of choices”
limited, special
(adjective) having a specific function or scope; “a special (or specific) role in the mission”
limited
(adjective) small in range or scope; “limited war”; “a limited success”; “a limited circle of friends”
limited
(adjective) not excessive
limited, modified
(adjective) mediocre
circumscribed, limited
(adjective) subject to limits or subjected to limits
express, limited
(noun) public transport consisting of a fast train or bus that makes only a few scheduled stops; “he caught the express to New York”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
limited
simple past tense and past participle of limit
Adjective
limited (comparative more limited, superlative most limited)
With certain (often specified) limits placed upon it.
Of numbers, amounts, data: poor, small, felt to be insufficient.
Synonyms
• finite
Antonyms
• endless
• infinite
• unlimited
Noun
limited (plural limiteds)
(rail) An express train that only halts at a limited number of stops.
Anagrams
• delimit, melitid
Source: Wiktionary
Lim"it*ed, a.
Definition: Confined within limits; narrow; circumscribed; restricted; as, our views of nature are very limited. Limited company, a company in which the liability of each shareholder is limited by the number of shares he has taken, so that he can not be called on to contribute beyond the amount of his shares. [Eng.] Mozley & W.
LIMIT
Lim"it, n. Etym: [From L. limes, limitis: cf. F.limite; -or from E. limit, v. See Limit, v. t.]
1. That which terminates, circumscribes, restrains, or confines; the bound, border, or edge; the utmost extent; as, the limit of a walk, of a town, of a country; the limits of human knowledge or endeavor. As eager of the chase, the maid Beyond the forest's verdant limits strayed. Pope.
2. The space or thing defined by limits. The archdeacon hath divided it Into three limits very equally. Shak.
3. That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent. The dateless limit of thy dear exile. Shak. The limit of your lives is out. Shak.
4. A restriction; a check; a curb; a hindrance. I prithee, give no limits to my tongue. Shak.
5. (Logic & Metaph.)
Definition: A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic a differentia.
6. (Math.)
Definition: A determinate quantity, to which a variable one continually approaches, and may differ from it by less than any given difference, but to which, under the law of variation, the variable can never become exactly equivalent. Elastic limit. See under Elastic.
– Prison limits, a definite, extent of space in or around a prison, within which a prisoner has liberty to go and come.
Syn.
– Boundary; border; edge; termination; restriction; bound; confine.
Lim"it, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Limited; p. pr. & vb. n. Limiting.] Etym: [F. limiter, L. limitare, fr. limes, limitis, limit; prob. akin to limen threshold, E. eliminate; cf. L. limus sidelong.]
Definition: To apply a limit to, or set a limit for; to terminate, circumscribe, or restrict, by a limit or limits; as, to limit the acreage of a crop; to limit the issue of paper money; to limit one's ambitions or aspirations; to limit the meaning of a word. Limiting parallels (Astron.), those parallels of latitude between which only an occultation of a star or planet by the moon, in a given case, can occur.
Lim"it, v. i.
Definition: To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region; as, a limiting friar. [Obs.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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