different between confined vs alone

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?fa?nd/

Verb

confined

1. simple past tense and past participle of confine

Adjective

confined (comparative more confined, superlative most confined)

1. Not free to move.
2. Limited; narrow; restricted.
3. In childbed.

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle English allone, from earlier all oon (“alone”, literally “all one”), contracted from the Old English phrase eall ?n (“entirely alone, solitary, single”), equivalent to al- (“all”) +? one. Cognate with Scots alane (“alone”), Saterland Frisian alleene (“alone”), West Frisian allinne (“alone”), Dutch alleen (“alone”), Low German alleen (“alone”), German allein (“alone”), Danish alene (“alone”), Swedish allena (“alone”). More at all and one. Regarding the different phonological development of alone and one, see the note in one.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??l??n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??lo?n/, enPR: ?-l?n?
• (Hong Kong) IPA^(key): /??lu?/
• Rhymes: -??n
• Hyphenation: a?lone

Adjective

alone (comparative more alone, superlative most alone)

1. By oneself, solitary.
   • 1611, King James Version, Genesis ii. 18

     It is not good that the man should be alone.

   • 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

     Alone on a wide, wide sea.

2. (predicatively, chiefly in the negative) Lacking peers who share one's beliefs, practices, etc.
3. (obsolete) Apart from, or exclusive of, others.
4. (obsolete) Mere; consisting of nothing further.
5. (obsolete) Unique; rare; matchless.

Derived terms

• alonely

Translations

Adverb

alone (not comparable)

1. By oneself; apart from, or exclusive of, others; solo.

   Synonyms: by one's lonesome, solitarily, solo; see also Thesaurus:solitarily

2. Without outside help.

   Synonyms: by oneself, by one's lonesome, singlehandedly; see also Thesaurus:by oneself

3. Focus adverb, typically modifying a noun and occurring immediately after it.
   1. Not permitting anything further; exclusively.

      Synonyms: entirely, solely; see also Thesaurus:solely
   2. Not requiring anything further; merely
   3. (by extension) Used to emphasize the size or extent of something by selecting a subset.
      • “[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons?! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”

Usage notes

• Unlike most focusing adverbs, alone typically appears after a noun phrase.

  Only the teacher knew vs. The teacher alone knew

Derived terms

• leave alone
• let alone
• stand-alone

Translations

Anagrams

• Enola, Leano, Leona, NOAEL, anole

Italian

Etymology

From Latin halo.

Noun

alone m (plural aloni)

1. halo
2. glow

Anagrams

• anelo, anelò