Object

• electron: When we confine the electrons like this, their properties can change dramatically.

• prisoner: During the Civil War the church was used to confine prisoners, and in 1657 it was declared ruinous.

• geometry: Experiments in magnetic fields up to 60 Tesla are used to study novel electronic states in confined geometries.

• mean: His interests were, however, by no means confined to the human side of science.

Converse of object

• escape: These works are becoming sculptural, the paper making an attempt to escape the confines of the frame.

Modifying Another Word

• exclusively: A quarter of a century ago the choice was confined almost exclusively to university or teachers ' training college.

• mainly: Luckily the damage was confined mainly to the rear bumper.

• mostly: The black grouse has been in serious decline over recent decades and it is now mostly confined to parts of the Scottish Highlands.

• solely: These records are almost solely confined to sessional matters.

• longer: No longer confined to working in the bedroom, wireless access to the internet has been made available in our hotels.

Adjective modifier

• cramped: You can see how Knighton escaped the cramped confines of the castle and expanded down the hill.

• narrow: They lived lives of constant service, within the narrow confines of a home.

• cozy: I went to the cozy confines of the Ice Factor in Kinlochleven, Big Softee!

• rigid: Most of the fantastically talented people I know were disasters within the rigid confines of schools and universities.

• safe: Q: Do we like to be scared within the safe confines of the movie theater?

Preposition: of

• classroom: Freed from the stifling confines of classrooms, I have taught myself to only pay for that which my heart seeks.