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Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.
Irving Babbitt

Meaning of "constrained" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CONSTRAINED

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CONSTRAINED

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Constrained is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES CONSTRAINED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Constraint

A constraint is something that plays the part of a physical, social or financial restriction. It is a derived form of the intransitive verb form constrained. Constraint may refer to: ▪ Theory of Constraints, in business management ▪ Loading gauge or structure gauge ▪ A constraint on constrained writing, in literature ▪ For example, Oulipian constraints...

Definition of constrained in the English dictionary

The definition of constrained in the dictionary is embarrassed, unnatural, or forced.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CONSTRAINED


close-grained
ˌkləʊsˈɡreɪnd
drained
dreɪnd
engrained
ɪnˈɡreɪnd
hairbrained
ˈhɛəˌbreɪnd
harebrained
ˈhɛəˌbreɪnd
house-trained
ˈhaʊstreɪnd
ingrained
ɪnˈɡreɪnd
mistrayned
mɪsˈtreɪnd
overstrained
ˌəʊvəˈstreɪnd
pot-trained
ˈpɒtˌtreɪnd
restrained
rɪˈstreɪnd
scatterbrained
ˈskætəˌbreɪnd
sprained
spreɪnd
strained
streɪnd
trained
treɪnd
unconstrained
ˌʌnkənˈstreɪnd
undrained
ʌnˈdreɪnd
unrestrained
ˌʌnrɪˈstreɪnd
unstrained
ʌnˈstreɪnd
untrained
ʌnˈtreɪnd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CONSTRAINED

constrain
constrainable
constrainedly
constrainer
constraint
constrict
constricted
constricting
constriction
constrictive
constrictively
constrictiveness
constrictor
constringe
constringence
constringency
constringent
construability
construable
construal

WORDS THAT END LIKE CONSTRAINED

bird-brained
bloodstained
coarse-grained
combined
contained
curtained
fine-grained
foreordained
highly trained
pained
preordained
self-contained
stained
state-maintained
sustained
sweat-stained
tear-stained
unexplained
unmaintained
unstained
well-trained

Synonyms and antonyms of constrained in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «CONSTRAINED»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «constrained» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of constrained

Translation of «constrained» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CONSTRAINED

Find out the translation of constrained to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of constrained from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «constrained» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

受限
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

constreñida
570 millions of speakers

English

constrained
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

विवश
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مقيدة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

сдерживается
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

constrangido
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অপ্রতিভ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

contraint
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Dikekang
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

gezwungen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

拘束され
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

제약
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Dikuwatirake
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hạn chế
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கட்டுப்படுத்தப்படும்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मर्यादित
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

zoraki
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

costretto
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ograniczone
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

стримується
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

constrâns
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

περιορίζεται
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

beperk
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

begränsad
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

begrenset
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of constrained

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CONSTRAINED»

The term «constrained» is very widely used and occupies the 20.659 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CONSTRAINED» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about constrained

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10 QUOTES WITH «CONSTRAINED»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word constrained.
1
Lynn Abbey
I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published.
2
Julian Assange
I saw that publishing all over the world was deeply constrained by self-censorship, economics and political censorship, while the military-industrial complex was growing at a tremendous rate, and the amount of information that it was collecting about all of us vastly exceeded the public imagination.
3
Irving Babbitt
Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.
4
Steve Bisley
Writing a novel is easier than writing a memoir; you are not constrained by the truth.
5
John Carney
You're more constrained when you're wealthy. Or when you're making a bigger film and people complain about no budgets; but having a small amount of money to make a film means you're at your absolute freest to express yourself as an artist.
6
Chip Conley
I'd done my time in corporate America, from McDonald's making shakes to Morgan Stanley making deals and, yet, I felt awfully constrained by the uniform - not just my clothes, but how I felt I needed to conform - that a traditional job required me to wear.
7
David Conyers
The great thing about the Cthulhu shared-world setting is that no one owns the copyright, so I'm not constrained by publisher conventions, and anything I write belongs to me. Other authors who have started their careers by writing Cthulhu tales are Charles Stross, Ramsey Campbell and Brian Lumley, and look at how successful they have become.
8
Lawrence Eagleburger
In a time of constrained resources we will have to shift emphasis. but not necessarily from the traditional Political Officer to the traditional Economic Officer.
9
Jonathan Edwards
True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.
10
Raymond E. Feist
Mostly I'm writing about people, so I feel constrained to take with me my view of people, my curiosity about how people choose the things they do and why they come to certain decisions in a certain fashion and all the things that drive most writers.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CONSTRAINED»

Discover the use of constrained in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to constrained and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Generating Electricity in a Carbon-Constrained World
This is followed by self-contained chapters of case-studies from all over the world.
Fereidoon P. Sioshansi, 2009
2
Scheduling of Resource-Constrained Projects
Scheduling of Resource-Constrained Projects develops more efficient procedures, which can easily be integrated into software packages by incorporated programming languages, and thus should be of great interest for practitioners as well as ...
Robert Klein, 2000
3
Gender and Health: The Effects of Constrained Choices and ...
Chloe Bird and Patricia Rieker argue that to improve men's and women's health, individuals, researchers, and policymakers must understand the social and biological sources of the perplexing gender differences in illness and longevity.
Chloe E. Bird, Patricia P. Rieker, 2008
4
The Constrained Court: Law, Politics, and the Decisions ...
By showing how law and politics interact in the construction of American law, this book sheds new light on the unique role that the Supreme Court plays in the constitutional order.
Michael A. Bailey, Forrest Maltzman, 2011
5
Classical and Quantum Dynamics of Constrained Hamiltonian ...
This book is an introduction to the field of constrained Hamiltonian systems and their quantization, a topic which is of central interest to theoretical physicists who wish to obtain a deeper understanding of the quantization of gauge ...
Heinz J. Rothe, Klaus Dieter Rothe, 2010
6
Constrained Markov Decision Processes
This book provides a unified approach for the study of constrained Markov decision processes with a finite state space and unbounded costs.
Eitan Altman, 1999
7
Constrained Clustering: Advances in Algorithms, Theory, and ...
With contributions from industrial researchers and leading academic experts who pioneered the field, this volume delivers thorough coverage of the capabilities and limitations of constrained clustering methods as well as introduces new ...
Sugato Basu, Ian Davidson, Kiri Wagstaff, 2008
8
A Collection of Test Problems for Constrained Global ...
This collection includes problems arising in a variety of engineering applications, and test problems from published computational reports.
Christodoulos A. Floudas, Panos M. Pardalos, 1990
9
Models of Balance of Payments Constrained Growth: History, ...
This book extends Thirlwall's original model and adapts its implications to the current problems of the developed and emerging economies.
Elias Soukiazis, Pedro André Cerqueira, 2012
10
Constrained Control and Estimation: An Optimisation Approach
This book gives an introduction to the fundamental principles underlying constrained control and estimation. This subject has a long history in practice, particularly in the control of chemical processes and in channel equalisation in digital ...
Graham C. Goodwin, María M. Seron, José A. de Doná, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CONSTRAINED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term constrained is used in the context of the following news items.
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Growth of 2Q Dividends Constrained on Cheap Oil, Gas
Dividend growth held its own, in terms of dollars, but the number of companies boosting payouts is shrinking while the number of cuts is on the ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
2
'The Strain' Is One Series That Won't Be Constrained By The Source …
The Strain is one of many current television adaptations of literary works, but where The Strain differs from the likes of Game of Thrones or ... «The Inquisitr, Jul 15»
3
Redesigned Arduino board said to suit space constrained applications
The Arduino Yun WiFi microcontroller board has been redesigned in a more compact housing so that it can be used with a breadboard. This is ... «New Electronics, Jul 15»
4
Sacked DHB board 'constrained by its decision-making'
The Southern District Health Board - sacked last month - was constrained by focusing too much on budget constraints, the commissioner tasked ... «The Southland Times, Jul 15»
5
Poverty Plays Complex Role in Entrepreneurship for Indian Women
A new study in the Journal of Public Policy & Marketing says “yes” and sheds light on the way in which two kinds of constrained consumption ... «Eurasia Review, Jul 15»
6
Report shows that Apple watch is crashing..
Apple Watch wasn't available during either holiday season, and sales have remained strictly constrained by short supplies, a well established ... «Empire State Tribune, Jul 15»
7
One after another, Kazakhstan shuts down independent media outlets
This is a disturbing shift for a country that enjoyed some semblance of independent, if relatively constrained, media through the first two ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
8
Halifax reports house price surge in June
He added that while he expected prices to continue to rise this year, upward momentum would be “constrained by more stretched house prices ... «Financial Times, Jul 15»
9
Billionaire Schonfeld Lures Hedge-Fund Talent to Boost Wealth
His family office offers a home for top Wall Street portfolio managers as banks are constrained by new rules limiting trading for their own books. «Bloomberg, Jul 15»
10
US senate committee wants Twitter, Facebook to report 'terrorist' posts
In other words, since agency budgets are apparently constrained, the committee would like private providers to spot and report ... «The Register, Jul 15»

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