different between confine vs sequester

English

Etymology

From Middle French confiner, from confins, from Medieval Latin confines, from Latin confinium, from Latin conf?nis.

Pronunciation

• (verb) enPR: k?nf?n?, IPA^(key): /k?n?fa?n/
• (noun)
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?nfa?n/
  • (US) enPR: kän?f?n, IPA^(key): /?k?nfa?n/
• Rhymes: -a?n

Verb

confine (third-person singular simple present confines, present participle confining, simple past and past participle confined)

1. (obsolete) To have a common boundary with; to border on. [16th–19th c.]
   • 1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford 2008, p. 467:

     ‘Why, Sir, to be sure, such parts of Sclavonia as confine with Germany, will borrow German words; and such parts as confine with Tartary will borrow Tartar words.’

2. (transitive) To restrict (someone or something) to a particular scope or area; to keep in or within certain bounds. [from 17th c.]
   • 1680, John Dryden, Ovid’s Epistles translated by several hands, London: Jacob Tonson, Preface,^[1]

     He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of rhyme.

Translations

Noun

confine (plural confines)

1. (chiefly in the plural) A boundary or limit.

Synonyms

• (limit): border, bound, limit

Derived terms

• confineless

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.fin/
• Homophones: confinent, confines

Verb

confine

1. first-person singular present indicative of confiner
2. third-person singular present indicative of confiner
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of confiner
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of confiner
5. second-person singular imperative of confiner

Italian

Etymology

From Latin conf?nis.

Noun

confine m (plural confini)

1. border, frontier
2. boundary

Synonyms

• limite

Related terms

• confinante
• confinare
• confinario
• confino

Latin

Adjective

c?nf?ne

1. nominative neuter singular of c?nf?nis
2. accusative neuter singular of c?nf?nis
3. vocative neuter singular of c?nf?nis

Portuguese

Verb

confine

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of confinar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of confinar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of confinar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of confinar

Spanish

Verb

confine

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of confinar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of confinar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of confinar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of confinar.

English

Etymology

From Old French sequestrer , from Late Latin sequestr? (“separate, give up for safekeeping”), from Latin sequester (“mediator, depositary”), probably originally meaning "follower", from Proto-Indo-European *sek?- (“follow”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /s??kw?s.t?/, /s??kw?s.t?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /s??kw?s.t?/, /s??kw?s.t?/
• Rhymes: -?st?(?)

Verb

sequester (third-person singular simple present sequesters, present participle sequestering, simple past and past participle sequestered)

1. To separate from all external influence; to seclude; to withdraw.
   • 1597, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie

     when men most sequester themselves from action

2. To separate in order to store.

3. To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
   • 1623, Francis Bacon, A Discourse of a War with Spain

     I had wholly sequestered my thoughts from civil affairs.

4. (chemistry) To prevent an ion in solution from behaving normally by forming a coordination compound
5. (law) To temporarily remove (property) from the possession of its owner and hold it as security against legal claims.
6. To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc.
   • c. 1694, Robert South, sermon XXIV

     It was his tailor and his cook, his fine fashions and his French ragouts, which sequestered him.

7. (transitive, US, politics, law) To remove (certain funds) automatically from a budget.

8. (international law) To seize and hold enemy property.
9. (intransitive) To withdraw; to retire.
10. To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.

Synonyms

• segregate

Derived terms

• sequestrable adjective
• sequestered adjective
• sequestrate verb
• sequestration noun
• sequestrator noun

Related terms

• sequel
• sequence
• sequacious
• segue

Translations

Noun

sequester (plural sequesters)

1. sequestration; separation
2. (law) A person with whom two or more contending parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy; one who mediates between two parties; a referee.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Bouvier to this entry?)

3. (medicine) A sequestrum.

Related terms

Translations

References

Anagrams

• requestes, sequestre