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prohibition
English
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman and Old French prohibicion, from Latin prohibiti?.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?p???(h)??b???n/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?p?o?(h)??b???n/
- Rhymes: -???n
- Hyphenation: pro?hi?bi?tion
Noun
prohibition (countable and uncountable, plural prohibitions)
- An act of prohibiting, forbidding, disallowing, or proscribing something.
- A law prohibiting the manufacture or sale of alcohol.
- A period of time when specific socially disapproved consumables are considered controlled substances.
Synonyms
- forbode
Antonyms
- permission
Related terms
- prohibit
Translations
French
Etymology
First attested in Old French, borrowed from Latin prohibiti?
Pronunciation
Noun
prohibition f (plural prohibitions)
- prohibition
- (specifically) prohibition of alcohol
Related terms
- prohiber
Further reading
- “prohibition” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
prohibition From the web:
- what prohibition means
- what prohibition good for the economy
- what prohibition in 1920
- was prohibition bad
constraint
English
Etymology
From Middle English constreynt, constreynte, from Old French constreinte, past participle of constreindre (“to constrain”), from Latin c?nstring? (corresponding to the past participle c?nstrictus).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?n?st?e?nt/
- Rhymes: -e?nt
Noun
constraint (countable and uncountable, plural constraints)
- Something that constrains; a restriction.
- An irresistible force or compulsion.
- The repression of one's feelings.
- (mathematics) A condition that a solution to an optimization problem must satisfy.
- (databases) A linkage or other restriction that maintains database integrity.
Derived terms
- constraint satisfaction
Related terms
- constrain
- constrict
- restraint
Translations
Further reading
- constraint on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- in contrast
constraint From the web:
- what constraints
- what constraints means
- what constraints are there on the pursuit of knowledge
- what constraints are external to the body
- what constraints are there on the domain of the function
- what constraints exist on presidential power
- what constraints influence operant conditioning
- what constraints should there be on the government
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