Contain and Limit

Contain

Contain verb - To have within.

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Limit and contain are semantically related. in restrain topic. In some cases you can use "Limit" instead a verb "Contain".

Nearby Words: container, containing, containment, containable

Limit verb - Place limits on (extent or access).

Usage example: limit the time you can spend with your friends

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Contain and limit are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Contain" instead a verb "Limit".

power	contain power	limit power
amount	contain amount	limit amount
number	contain number	limit number
characters	contain characters	limit characters
Other words: items, numbers, jokes, powers, examples, tropes.

Before the sixty card limit was introduced, decks could contain an unlimited amount of cards, with the only restriction being that they must contain at least 40 cards.

Source: Tabletop Game / Yu-Gi-Oh!
While there is no limit on ships, fleets have a limit on how many ships they contain (doesn't prevent you from stacking several fleets on top of each other though).

Source: Video Game / Galactic Civilizations
Nowadays the top teams often contain the best players from France, Austria, Finland, Poland, the Czech Republic... which would have gone way over any limit for "European" players of the early 1990s.

Source: Early Installment Weirdness / Real Life

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