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limit  (limits plural & 3rd person present) (limiting present participle) (limited past tense & past participle )
1  n-count A limit is the greatest amount, extent, or degree of something that is possible. 
Her love for him was being tested to its limits...  
2  n-count A limit of a particular kind is the largest or smallest amount of something such as time or money that is allowed because of a rule, law, or decision. 
The three month time limit will be up in mid-June...  
3  n-count The limit of an area is its boundary or edge. 
...the city limits of Baghdad.  
4  n-plural The limits of  a situation are the facts involved in it which make only some actions or results possible. 
She has to work within the limits of a fairly tight budget...  
5  verb If you limit something, you prevent it from becoming greater than a particular amount or degree.  (=restrict) 
He limited payments on the country's foreign debt...  V n 
6  verb If you limit yourself to something, or if someone or something  limits you, the number of things that you have or do is reduced. 
It is now accepted that men should limit themselves to 20 units of alcohol a week...  V pron-refl to n/-ing 
♦  limiting  adj 
The conditions laid down to me were not too limiting.  
7  verb If something is limited to  a particular place or group of people, it exists only in that place, or is had or done only by that group. 
The protests were not limited to New York...  be V-ed to n/-ing 
8 
 →  age limit 
 →  limited 
9 If an area or a place is off limits, you are not allowed to go there. 
♦ off limits  phrase 
A one-mile area around the wreck is still off limits...  
10 If someone is over the limit, they have drunk more alcohol than they are legally allowed to when driving a vehicle. 
 (BRIT) 
♦ be over the limit  phrase 
If police breathalyse me and find I am over the limit I face a long ban...  
11 If you say the sky is the limit, you mean that there is nothing to prevent someone or something from being very successful. 
♦ the sky is the limit  phrase 
They have found that, in terms of both salary and career success, the sky is the limit.  
12 If you add within limits to a statement, you mean that it is true or applies only when talking about reasonable or normal situations. 
♦ within limits  phrase  (=within reason) 
In the circumstances we'll tell you what we can, within limits, of course, and in confidence.