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Component Semantics:
- Confine
- Definition: prevent an object from being moved out of its enclosure
- Required slot: object
- Restriction: a Tangible-Entity
- Required slot: location
- Restriction: is inside an enclosure
- Required slot: post-conditions
- Restriction: object is the object of a
Be-Confined whose location is the Place
inside the enclosure
- Primary slot: location
- Restriction: the Place inside the enclosure
- Primary slot: agent
- Inherited from: Obstruct
- Restriction: causes object to be Confined
- WordNet 1.6 Synsets: confine#3, confine#4
- WordNet 1.6 Synsets: enclose#2, hold_in#1
In order to Confine an object to an enclosure, it must already be
inside the enclosure. The resulting state Be-Confined can be
"undone" by Release'ing the object
Other Senses:
- confine2
- Definition: restrain
- Transitivity: transitive
- confine3
- Definition: limit
- Transitivity: transitive
- confine4
- Definition: deprive of freedom
- Transitivity: intransitive/transitive
Reference: WordNet1.6
- WNconfine#1
- Equivalent: confine3
- WNconfine#2
- Equivalent: confine3
- WNconfine#3
- Equivalent: confine1
- WNconfine#4
- Equivalent: confine1
- WNconfine#5
- Equivalent: confine4
- WNconfine#6
- Equivalent: confine2