Definition of restraint in English:

restraint

noun rɪˈstreɪntrəˈstreɪnt

1often restraintsA measure or condition that keeps someone or something under control.
控制，限制
decisions are made within the financial restraints of the budget
决定是在受预算经费限制的情况下做出的。
Example sentencesExamples
- Apart from budget restraints, McKean and Gaiman were otherwise free to be extremely inventive.
- He was legal head of the executive, but nearly all his functions were subject to external restraints and under constant supervision by a council elected at the Diet.
- Budgetary restraints dictated simple external works with good connections between the precinct, the river, and the two public parks.
- Strong extended family ties tend to exercise a restraint on deviant behavior, and family meetings are often called to settle problems before they become public.
- Financial restraints have denied him the chance to remove his lower legs and replace them with artificial limbs that would enable him to run and jump again.
- The wildness in these collaborations is about stretching the parameters of possibility within printmaking restraints.
- The composer chafed under programmatic restraints and felt more comfortable with formal design, a sign of the symphonist to come.
- Physical restraints of stage production limit the narrative range that would be available within a purely verbal medium such as the epic.
- Existing programs must be consolidated, downsized, or eliminated to meet current or reduced budget restraints.
- Making a film is like choosing a set of restraints, and then trying to express yourself within those restraints.
- Even voluntary export restraints, illegal under the new rules, began to resurface.
- Livestock farmers claim that calling a vet to livestock only happens in extreme emergencies anyway, because of the financial restraints on farming.
- I think it would be unrealistic if I quickly tried to make them friends within the time restraints of this story.
- We accept these restraints on our liberty, because they're needed in order to get adequate security.
- Safety, when construed as the prevention of evil, is achieved by imposing prior restraints on people's conduct.
- Erik's mannerisms were very much like one who was raised under both the disciplines of a soldier, but also the restraints of a gentleman.
- We need to understand your aims and expectations as well as any budget restraints you might have.
- Bracton imagined a divinely appointed ruler deputed as ‘vicar of God’, who was subject to no earthly restraints beyond his own wisdom.
- Society's methodical and systemic ideals stand challenged wherever individual freedom is put under any restraint.
- To the film's credit, it certainly makes the best of a small medium, doing the best it can within the limited time restraints.
1. 1.1mass noun The action of keeping someone or something under control.
  遏制，抑制
  a policy of restraint in public spending
  Example sentencesExamples
  Further, a certain measure of restraint was a condition of sanity amidst the new atmosphere of material abundance.
  The defendants in this case did not break into any computers - and saying that they did is bad for those who value liberty and prosecutorial restraint.
  Because cows were not separated from their groups for restraint and treatment, the chance of mixing groups was decreased.
  Synonyms
  restraining, holding back, keeping back, biting back, suppression, keeping in check, control, keeping under control, stifling, smothering, bottling up
2. 1.2mass noun Deprivation or restriction of personal liberty or freedom of movement.
  限制人身自由；限制活动自由
  he remained aggressive and required physical restraint
  他仍然具有攻击性，需要限制其行动自由。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The meeting noted that the Claimant frequently requires physical restraint and at times intra muscular medication.
  Throughout all of her songs, the same common feeling came through; loss of freedom, restraint, dominance, sorrow.
  Their official role in the courts encompassed analogous responsibilities, restraint of criminals and conservation of justice.
  And all this just involves the direct restraint on liberty.
  Synonyms
  constraint, check, control, restriction, limitation, curtailment
  rein, bridle, brake, damper, deterrent, hindrance, impediment, obstacle, retardant, inhibition
  informal clampdown, wet blanket
  confinement, captivity, custody, detention, imprisonment, internment, incarceration, constraint, committal, quarantine, arrest
  archaic duress
  rare detainment
3. 1.3 A device which limits or prevents freedom of movement.
  限制活动自由的设备
  car safety restraints
  保证汽车安全的限制性装置。
  Example sentencesExamples
  She manages to make a perfectly normal question sound like it's accompanied by a dagger and broken restraints.
  One of the white figures took off her arm restraints as another undid the leg restraints.
  Unable to move beyond the fixed boundaries imposed on her by the chain restraints, exercise was difficult.
  She fastened a few restraints to keep me from moving and told me to stay calm.
  What is the policy on using physical restraints or medications to control behavior?
  One of them flashed a signal to the nanoprocessor that controlled the bed and the restraints clicked off.
  The paramedics now have him turned over and he is in a neck restraint.
  With a sudden burst of energy and a well timed tug on her chains, Percephony was able to break her restraints.
  Her hands and legs were buckled down in restraints and her head as well, restricting her movements.
  All five seats now have three-point seat belts and are fitted with head restraints.
  I long to move - my whole body trembles with excitement - but the restraints on my legs and wrists keep me firmly in place.
  He says Earnhardt died because he was not wearing a head and neck restraint.
  This car has some of the best seats available at any price and Saab's active safety head restraints have become an industry standard.
  The NSC has produced a new booklet on Child Safety in Cars, designed to advise parents on selecting and fitting suitable restraints.
  He removed the lock pick and began to pick at the locks holding his restraints down.
  She tugged desperately at her restraints as memory came flooding back, but the chains seemed to be unbreakable.
  Tynra tugged at the restraints nailed to the dungeon wall.
  There were fewer staff, poorer conditions, and a greater resort to restraints such as strait-jackets to control unruly patients.
  Never place a rear facing child restraint in front of a passenger side air bag.
  A novel cover for a safety restraint device is disclosed.
  Synonyms
  belt, harness, strap
2mass noun Unemotional, dispassionate, or moderate behaviour; self-control.
克制，拘谨
he urged the protestors to exercise restraint
他敦促抗议者要克制。
Example sentencesExamples
- He was still very young, especially by Drow standards, but his smile had given way to an expression of restraint, and his little arms and legs had grown long and thick.
- Finally decorum and restraint are swept aside, and the voice explodes, white with anger.
- They're really bombarding the kids, and they're not perhaps willing to exercise any kind of restraint toward marketing on campuses?
- Because defense counsel had not been permitted to address the jury in trials, it had been understood that counsel for the prosecution would exercise restraint in their speeches.
- Their call on commercial banks to exercise restraint when extending credit may just be the first warning that they are preparing themselves for a marked decrease in demand from consumers in the States.
- You need to exercise care and restraint when you slip the CPU into the socket.
- Stone insisted that the judiciary should exercise restraint and recognize the need for the legislative and executive branches to respond to the Great Depression.
- Democratic, interest-group politics offered the right combination of freedom and restraint for beings so demonstrably divided against themselves.
- I urge restraint on honourable members so they respect the contribution of another member.
- Despite calls for investors to exercise patriotic restraint, the market opened with an avalanche of sell orders, driving the Dow to its largest point loss in history.
- The point was to emphasise, for better or worse, that you live well, you survive, when you learn restraint, self-discipline and separation.
- For four decades he has quietly been a voice of reason and restraint in a critical world prone to overstatement.
- Intensity is what she is after and you don't normally get that by pulling your punches, though of course understatement and restraint can sometimes be equally effective.
- We urged restraint and respect, putting relief for the families above all else.
- I always said manageable if we continued to pursue policies to promote economic growth and exercised responsible fiscal restraint.
- With so many different guest artists, it becomes increasingly difficult for Tricky to exercise restraint on their contributions.
- The hospitality industry has been urged to exercise restraint in effecting price increases to avoid discouraging tourists from coming to the country in preference to more affordable destinations.
- It took time before James realized that, while he was much richer than he had been in Scotland, he still needed to exercise restraint.
- They suggested that a failure to act would mean that the government would be able to extend the copyright term on future occasions, without judicial restraint.
- She admired Em's self-control and emotional restraint, yes, but Mona didn't want to be like Em.
- As general and president, he employed the power available to him but with moderation and restraint.
Synonyms
self-control, self-restraint, self-discipline, control, moderation, temperateness, abstemiousness, non-indulgence, prudence, judiciousness
reserve, self-restraint, self-control, self-possession, lack of emotion, sobriety, coldness, formality, aloofness, detachment, reticence, uncommunicativeness
1. 2.1 Understatement, especially of artistic expression.
  （尤指艺术表达中的）低调处理，克制
  with strings and piano, all restraint vanished
  弦乐器和钢琴一响，所有的温文尔雅都消失了。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Her poems are notable for a restraint of expression combined with a powerful and passionate content which distinguish her from many of her Georgian contemporaries.
  Musical, with a clear, refined technique and a demeanor that favors restraint over flashiness, he appears to many the embodiment of the high classicist.
  This tonal restraint also contributes to the antique look of the works, whose distressed and pocked surfaces appear to have weathered over time.
  Erith's extreme architectural restraint was typical of his work up to the mid 1950s.
  This restraint from easy sentiment sets the tone for the rest of the film.
  It is a splendid novel composed with a poised restraint and admirably captures the contrast between Henry James's vibrant fiction and the elusive, undramatic quality of his own life.
  The classical restraint and emotional detachment of Bronzino's work reveal a temperament quite unlike that of his master Pontormo.
  The next few tracks exercise more restraint but fortunately don't compromise any of the fire of the opening track.
  Leo A Daly appears to have balanced modern design, polished materials, and vibrant colors with just the right amount of formal restraint.
  Vigroux and Evett are both accomplished players, and have enough experience to recognize that good instrumental music is an exercise in restraint.
  Following the birth of his son, he gave himself over to a rapturous, sensual engagement with paint that seemed to fly in the face of his previous restraint.
  Its mawkish sentimentality and studied compositional restraint is typical of high Victorian genre painting shown at the Fair.
  The potential for spatial ambiguity - for drama, almost - enriches the loveliness of the objects and the muted restraint with which they are depicted.
  The design of new offices for a firm of lawyers in the southern Spanish city of Cadiz proclaims the virtues of elegant restraint, use of few materials, and manipulation of marvellous south light.
  Unencumbered by stylistic restraint, the paintings, prints and drawings present a visionary social realm, freed from the conventions of naturalist description.
  With its moonlit beams and gentle currents, Adventure is an addictive album, deftly illustrating that great emotional strength can be wrought from an attitude of restraint and levity.
  The sculptures, which can attain a rather large size, begin to feel like musical variations on a single theme: the beauty and restraint of a geometric idiom.
  This replaced the open emotional force and physical excitement of ‘hot’ jazz with deliberate understatement and restraint.
  The installation radiated elegance, precision and restraint, especially in its subtle use of color.
  The design is an exercise in restraint, from the unadorned raised back to the discreet rope moulded rim, to the gentle curve of the sabre supports that end on paw feet.
  Synonyms
  subtlety, mutedness, understatedness, taste, tastefulness, delicacy, delicateness, discretion, discrimination

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French restreinte, feminine past participle of restreindre 'hold back' (see restrain).

Rhymes

acquaint, ain't, attaint, complaint, constraint, distraint, faint, feint, paint, plaint, quaint, saint, taint

Definition of restraint in US English:

restraint

nounrəˈstreɪntrəˈstrānt

1often restraintsA measure or condition that keeps someone or something under control or within limits.
控制，限制
decisions are made within the financial restraints of the budget
决定是在受预算经费限制的情况下做出的。
Example sentencesExamples
- Making a film is like choosing a set of restraints, and then trying to express yourself within those restraints.
- To the film's credit, it certainly makes the best of a small medium, doing the best it can within the limited time restraints.
- We need to understand your aims and expectations as well as any budget restraints you might have.
- I think it would be unrealistic if I quickly tried to make them friends within the time restraints of this story.
- Budgetary restraints dictated simple external works with good connections between the precinct, the river, and the two public parks.
- The composer chafed under programmatic restraints and felt more comfortable with formal design, a sign of the symphonist to come.
- Physical restraints of stage production limit the narrative range that would be available within a purely verbal medium such as the epic.
- Even voluntary export restraints, illegal under the new rules, began to resurface.
- We accept these restraints on our liberty, because they're needed in order to get adequate security.
- The wildness in these collaborations is about stretching the parameters of possibility within printmaking restraints.
- Livestock farmers claim that calling a vet to livestock only happens in extreme emergencies anyway, because of the financial restraints on farming.
- Bracton imagined a divinely appointed ruler deputed as ‘vicar of God’, who was subject to no earthly restraints beyond his own wisdom.
- Safety, when construed as the prevention of evil, is achieved by imposing prior restraints on people's conduct.
- Erik's mannerisms were very much like one who was raised under both the disciplines of a soldier, but also the restraints of a gentleman.
- He was legal head of the executive, but nearly all his functions were subject to external restraints and under constant supervision by a council elected at the Diet.
- Strong extended family ties tend to exercise a restraint on deviant behavior, and family meetings are often called to settle problems before they become public.
- Financial restraints have denied him the chance to remove his lower legs and replace them with artificial limbs that would enable him to run and jump again.
- Apart from budget restraints, McKean and Gaiman were otherwise free to be extremely inventive.
- Existing programs must be consolidated, downsized, or eliminated to meet current or reduced budget restraints.
- Society's methodical and systemic ideals stand challenged wherever individual freedom is put under any restraint.
1. 1.1 The action of keeping someone or something under control.
  遏制，抑制
  Example sentencesExamples
  Further, a certain measure of restraint was a condition of sanity amidst the new atmosphere of material abundance.
  Because cows were not separated from their groups for restraint and treatment, the chance of mixing groups was decreased.
  The defendants in this case did not break into any computers - and saying that they did is bad for those who value liberty and prosecutorial restraint.
  Synonyms
  restraining, holding back, keeping back, biting back, suppression, keeping in check, control, keeping under control, stifling, smothering, bottling up
2. 1.2 Deprivation or restriction of personal liberty or freedom of movement.
  限制人身自由；限制活动自由
  he remained aggressive and required physical restraint
  他仍然具有攻击性，需要限制其行动自由。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Throughout all of her songs, the same common feeling came through; loss of freedom, restraint, dominance, sorrow.
  The meeting noted that the Claimant frequently requires physical restraint and at times intra muscular medication.
  Their official role in the courts encompassed analogous responsibilities, restraint of criminals and conservation of justice.
  And all this just involves the direct restraint on liberty.
  Synonyms
  constraint, check, control, restriction, limitation, curtailment
  confinement, captivity, custody, detention, imprisonment, internment, incarceration, constraint, committal, quarantine, arrest
3. 1.3 A device which limits or prevents freedom of movement.
  限制活动自由的设备
  car safety restraints
  保证汽车安全的限制性装置。
  Example sentencesExamples
  She tugged desperately at her restraints as memory came flooding back, but the chains seemed to be unbreakable.
  She manages to make a perfectly normal question sound like it's accompanied by a dagger and broken restraints.
  With a sudden burst of energy and a well timed tug on her chains, Percephony was able to break her restraints.
  One of them flashed a signal to the nanoprocessor that controlled the bed and the restraints clicked off.
  She fastened a few restraints to keep me from moving and told me to stay calm.
  The paramedics now have him turned over and he is in a neck restraint.
  All five seats now have three-point seat belts and are fitted with head restraints.
  He says Earnhardt died because he was not wearing a head and neck restraint.
  Unable to move beyond the fixed boundaries imposed on her by the chain restraints, exercise was difficult.
  One of the white figures took off her arm restraints as another undid the leg restraints.
  Never place a rear facing child restraint in front of a passenger side air bag.
  He removed the lock pick and began to pick at the locks holding his restraints down.
  What is the policy on using physical restraints or medications to control behavior?
  Her hands and legs were buckled down in restraints and her head as well, restricting her movements.
  This car has some of the best seats available at any price and Saab's active safety head restraints have become an industry standard.
  I long to move - my whole body trembles with excitement - but the restraints on my legs and wrists keep me firmly in place.
  A novel cover for a safety restraint device is disclosed.
  The NSC has produced a new booklet on Child Safety in Cars, designed to advise parents on selecting and fitting suitable restraints.
  There were fewer staff, poorer conditions, and a greater resort to restraints such as strait-jackets to control unruly patients.
  Tynra tugged at the restraints nailed to the dungeon wall.
  Synonyms
  belt, harness, strap
2Unemotional, dispassionate, or moderate behavior; self-control.
克制，拘谨
he urged the protesters to exercise restraint
他敦促抗议者要克制。
Example sentencesExamples
- The point was to emphasise, for better or worse, that you live well, you survive, when you learn restraint, self-discipline and separation.
- We urged restraint and respect, putting relief for the families above all else.
- He was still very young, especially by Drow standards, but his smile had given way to an expression of restraint, and his little arms and legs had grown long and thick.
- Intensity is what she is after and you don't normally get that by pulling your punches, though of course understatement and restraint can sometimes be equally effective.
- It took time before James realized that, while he was much richer than he had been in Scotland, he still needed to exercise restraint.
- As general and president, he employed the power available to him but with moderation and restraint.
- With so many different guest artists, it becomes increasingly difficult for Tricky to exercise restraint on their contributions.
- Stone insisted that the judiciary should exercise restraint and recognize the need for the legislative and executive branches to respond to the Great Depression.
- They're really bombarding the kids, and they're not perhaps willing to exercise any kind of restraint toward marketing on campuses?
- Because defense counsel had not been permitted to address the jury in trials, it had been understood that counsel for the prosecution would exercise restraint in their speeches.
- You need to exercise care and restraint when you slip the CPU into the socket.
- For four decades he has quietly been a voice of reason and restraint in a critical world prone to overstatement.
- I always said manageable if we continued to pursue policies to promote economic growth and exercised responsible fiscal restraint.
- The hospitality industry has been urged to exercise restraint in effecting price increases to avoid discouraging tourists from coming to the country in preference to more affordable destinations.
- Despite calls for investors to exercise patriotic restraint, the market opened with an avalanche of sell orders, driving the Dow to its largest point loss in history.
- She admired Em's self-control and emotional restraint, yes, but Mona didn't want to be like Em.
- They suggested that a failure to act would mean that the government would be able to extend the copyright term on future occasions, without judicial restraint.
- Finally decorum and restraint are swept aside, and the voice explodes, white with anger.
- Their call on commercial banks to exercise restraint when extending credit may just be the first warning that they are preparing themselves for a marked decrease in demand from consumers in the States.
- I urge restraint on honourable members so they respect the contribution of another member.
- Democratic, interest-group politics offered the right combination of freedom and restraint for beings so demonstrably divided against themselves.
Synonyms
self-control, self-restraint, self-discipline, control, moderation, temperateness, abstemiousness, non-indulgence, prudence, judiciousness
reserve, self-restraint, self-control, self-possession, lack of emotion, sobriety, coldness, formality, aloofness, detachment, reticence, uncommunicativeness
1. 2.1 Understatement, especially of artistic expression.
  （尤指艺术表达中的）低调处理，克制
  with strings and piano, all restraint vanished
  弦乐器和钢琴一响，所有的温文尔雅都消失了。
  Example sentencesExamples
  This replaced the open emotional force and physical excitement of ‘hot’ jazz with deliberate understatement and restraint.
  Unencumbered by stylistic restraint, the paintings, prints and drawings present a visionary social realm, freed from the conventions of naturalist description.
  Its mawkish sentimentality and studied compositional restraint is typical of high Victorian genre painting shown at the Fair.
  This restraint from easy sentiment sets the tone for the rest of the film.
  This tonal restraint also contributes to the antique look of the works, whose distressed and pocked surfaces appear to have weathered over time.
  Erith's extreme architectural restraint was typical of his work up to the mid 1950s.
  The installation radiated elegance, precision and restraint, especially in its subtle use of color.
  Leo A Daly appears to have balanced modern design, polished materials, and vibrant colors with just the right amount of formal restraint.
  Musical, with a clear, refined technique and a demeanor that favors restraint over flashiness, he appears to many the embodiment of the high classicist.
  The design is an exercise in restraint, from the unadorned raised back to the discreet rope moulded rim, to the gentle curve of the sabre supports that end on paw feet.
  Her poems are notable for a restraint of expression combined with a powerful and passionate content which distinguish her from many of her Georgian contemporaries.
  The classical restraint and emotional detachment of Bronzino's work reveal a temperament quite unlike that of his master Pontormo.
  The next few tracks exercise more restraint but fortunately don't compromise any of the fire of the opening track.
  It is a splendid novel composed with a poised restraint and admirably captures the contrast between Henry James's vibrant fiction and the elusive, undramatic quality of his own life.
  The sculptures, which can attain a rather large size, begin to feel like musical variations on a single theme: the beauty and restraint of a geometric idiom.
  The design of new offices for a firm of lawyers in the southern Spanish city of Cadiz proclaims the virtues of elegant restraint, use of few materials, and manipulation of marvellous south light.
  The potential for spatial ambiguity - for drama, almost - enriches the loveliness of the objects and the muted restraint with which they are depicted.
  Following the birth of his son, he gave himself over to a rapturous, sensual engagement with paint that seemed to fly in the face of his previous restraint.
  Vigroux and Evett are both accomplished players, and have enough experience to recognize that good instrumental music is an exercise in restraint.
  With its moonlit beams and gentle currents, Adventure is an addictive album, deftly illustrating that great emotional strength can be wrought from an attitude of restraint and levity.
  Synonyms
  subtlety, mutedness, understatedness, taste, tastefulness, delicacy, delicateness, discretion, discrimination

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French restreinte, feminine past participle of restreindre ‘hold back’ (see restrain).

词汇	restraint
释义	Definition of restraint in English: restraint noun rɪˈstreɪntrəˈstreɪnt 1often restraintsA measure or condition that keeps someone or something under control. 控制，限制 decisions are made within the financial restraints of the budget 决定是在受预算经费限制的情况下做出的。 Example sentencesExamples Apart from budget restraints, McKean and Gaiman were otherwise free to be extremely inventive. He was legal head of the executive, but nearly all his functions were subject to external restraints and under constant supervision by a council elected at the Diet. Budgetary restraints dictated simple external works with good connections between the precinct, the river, and the two public parks. Strong extended family ties tend to exercise a restraint on deviant behavior, and family meetings are often called to settle problems before they become public. Financial restraints have denied him the chance to remove his lower legs and replace them with artificial limbs that would enable him to run and jump again. The wildness in these collaborations is about stretching the parameters of possibility within printmaking restraints. The composer chafed under programmatic restraints and felt more comfortable with formal design, a sign of the symphonist to come. Physical restraints of stage production limit the narrative range that would be available within a purely verbal medium such as the epic. Existing programs must be consolidated, downsized, or eliminated to meet current or reduced budget restraints. Making a film is like choosing a set of restraints, and then trying to express yourself within those restraints. Even voluntary export restraints, illegal under the new rules, began to resurface. Livestock farmers claim that calling a vet to livestock only happens in extreme emergencies anyway, because of the financial restraints on farming. I think it would be unrealistic if I quickly tried to make them friends within the time restraints of this story. We accept these restraints on our liberty, because they're needed in order to get adequate security. Safety, when construed as the prevention of evil, is achieved by imposing prior restraints on people's conduct. Erik's mannerisms were very much like one who was raised under both the disciplines of a soldier, but also the restraints of a gentleman. We need to understand your aims and expectations as well as any budget restraints you might have. Bracton imagined a divinely appointed ruler deputed as ‘vicar of God’, who was subject to no earthly restraints beyond his own wisdom. Society's methodical and systemic ideals stand challenged wherever individual freedom is put under any restraint. To the film's credit, it certainly makes the best of a small medium, doing the best it can within the limited time restraints. 1.1mass noun The action of keeping someone or something under control. 遏制，抑制 a policy of restraint in public spending Example sentencesExamples Further, a certain measure of restraint was a condition of sanity amidst the new atmosphere of material abundance. The defendants in this case did not break into any computers - and saying that they did is bad for those who value liberty and prosecutorial restraint. Because cows were not separated from their groups for restraint and treatment, the chance of mixing groups was decreased. Synonyms restraining, holding back, keeping back, biting back, suppression, keeping in check, control, keeping under control, stifling, smothering, bottling up 1.2mass noun Deprivation or restriction of personal liberty or freedom of movement. 限制人身自由；限制活动自由 he remained aggressive and required physical restraint 他仍然具有攻击性，需要限制其行动自由。 Example sentencesExamples The meeting noted that the Claimant frequently requires physical restraint and at times intra muscular medication. Throughout all of her songs, the same common feeling came through; loss of freedom, restraint, dominance, sorrow. Their official role in the courts encompassed analogous responsibilities, restraint of criminals and conservation of justice. And all this just involves the direct restraint on liberty. Synonyms constraint, check, control, restriction, limitation, curtailment rein, bridle, brake, damper, deterrent, hindrance, impediment, obstacle, retardant, inhibition informal clampdown, wet blanket confinement, captivity, custody, detention, imprisonment, internment, incarceration, constraint, committal, quarantine, arrest archaic duress rare detainment 1.3 A device which limits or prevents freedom of movement. 限制活动自由的设备 car safety restraints 保证汽车安全的限制性装置。 Example sentencesExamples She manages to make a perfectly normal question sound like it's accompanied by a dagger and broken restraints. One of the white figures took off her arm restraints as another undid the leg restraints. Unable to move beyond the fixed boundaries imposed on her by the chain restraints, exercise was difficult. She fastened a few restraints to keep me from moving and told me to stay calm. What is the policy on using physical restraints or medications to control behavior? One of them flashed a signal to the nanoprocessor that controlled the bed and the restraints clicked off. The paramedics now have him turned over and he is in a neck restraint. With a sudden burst of energy and a well timed tug on her chains, Percephony was able to break her restraints. Her hands and legs were buckled down in restraints and her head as well, restricting her movements. All five seats now have three-point seat belts and are fitted with head restraints. I long to move - my whole body trembles with excitement - but the restraints on my legs and wrists keep me firmly in place. He says Earnhardt died because he was not wearing a head and neck restraint. This car has some of the best seats available at any price and Saab's active safety head restraints have become an industry standard. The NSC has produced a new booklet on Child Safety in Cars, designed to advise parents on selecting and fitting suitable restraints. He removed the lock pick and began to pick at the locks holding his restraints down. She tugged desperately at her restraints as memory came flooding back, but the chains seemed to be unbreakable. Tynra tugged at the restraints nailed to the dungeon wall. There were fewer staff, poorer conditions, and a greater resort to restraints such as strait-jackets to control unruly patients. Never place a rear facing child restraint in front of a passenger side air bag. A novel cover for a safety restraint device is disclosed. Synonyms belt, harness, strap 2mass noun Unemotional, dispassionate, or moderate behaviour; self-control. 克制，拘谨 he urged the protestors to exercise restraint 他敦促抗议者要克制。 Example sentencesExamples He was still very young, especially by Drow standards, but his smile had given way to an expression of restraint, and his little arms and legs had grown long and thick. Finally decorum and restraint are swept aside, and the voice explodes, white with anger. They're really bombarding the kids, and they're not perhaps willing to exercise any kind of restraint toward marketing on campuses? Because defense counsel had not been permitted to address the jury in trials, it had been understood that counsel for the prosecution would exercise restraint in their speeches. Their call on commercial banks to exercise restraint when extending credit may just be the first warning that they are preparing themselves for a marked decrease in demand from consumers in the States. You need to exercise care and restraint when you slip the CPU into the socket. Stone insisted that the judiciary should exercise restraint and recognize the need for the legislative and executive branches to respond to the Great Depression. Democratic, interest-group politics offered the right combination of freedom and restraint for beings so demonstrably divided against themselves. I urge restraint on honourable members so they respect the contribution of another member. Despite calls for investors to exercise patriotic restraint, the market opened with an avalanche of sell orders, driving the Dow to its largest point loss in history. The point was to emphasise, for better or worse, that you live well, you survive, when you learn restraint, self-discipline and separation. For four decades he has quietly been a voice of reason and restraint in a critical world prone to overstatement. Intensity is what she is after and you don't normally get that by pulling your punches, though of course understatement and restraint can sometimes be equally effective. We urged restraint and respect, putting relief for the families above all else. I always said manageable if we continued to pursue policies to promote economic growth and exercised responsible fiscal restraint. With so many different guest artists, it becomes increasingly difficult for Tricky to exercise restraint on their contributions. The hospitality industry has been urged to exercise restraint in effecting price increases to avoid discouraging tourists from coming to the country in preference to more affordable destinations. It took time before James realized that, while he was much richer than he had been in Scotland, he still needed to exercise restraint. They suggested that a failure to act would mean that the government would be able to extend the copyright term on future occasions, without judicial restraint. She admired Em's self-control and emotional restraint, yes, but Mona didn't want to be like Em. As general and president, he employed the power available to him but with moderation and restraint. Synonyms self-control, self-restraint, self-discipline, control, moderation, temperateness, abstemiousness, non-indulgence, prudence, judiciousness reserve, self-restraint, self-control, self-possession, lack of emotion, sobriety, coldness, formality, aloofness, detachment, reticence, uncommunicativeness 2.1 Understatement, especially of artistic expression. （尤指艺术表达中的）低调处理，克制 with strings and piano, all restraint vanished 弦乐器和钢琴一响，所有的温文尔雅都消失了。 Example sentencesExamples Her poems are notable for a restraint of expression combined with a powerful and passionate content which distinguish her from many of her Georgian contemporaries. Musical, with a clear, refined technique and a demeanor that favors restraint over flashiness, he appears to many the embodiment of the high classicist. This tonal restraint also contributes to the antique look of the works, whose distressed and pocked surfaces appear to have weathered over time. Erith's extreme architectural restraint was typical of his work up to the mid 1950s. This restraint from easy sentiment sets the tone for the rest of the film. It is a splendid novel composed with a poised restraint and admirably captures the contrast between Henry James's vibrant fiction and the elusive, undramatic quality of his own life. The classical restraint and emotional detachment of Bronzino's work reveal a temperament quite unlike that of his master Pontormo. The next few tracks exercise more restraint but fortunately don't compromise any of the fire of the opening track. Leo A Daly appears to have balanced modern design, polished materials, and vibrant colors with just the right amount of formal restraint. Vigroux and Evett are both accomplished players, and have enough experience to recognize that good instrumental music is an exercise in restraint. Following the birth of his son, he gave himself over to a rapturous, sensual engagement with paint that seemed to fly in the face of his previous restraint. Its mawkish sentimentality and studied compositional restraint is typical of high Victorian genre painting shown at the Fair. The potential for spatial ambiguity - for drama, almost - enriches the loveliness of the objects and the muted restraint with which they are depicted. The design of new offices for a firm of lawyers in the southern Spanish city of Cadiz proclaims the virtues of elegant restraint, use of few materials, and manipulation of marvellous south light. Unencumbered by stylistic restraint, the paintings, prints and drawings present a visionary social realm, freed from the conventions of naturalist description. With its moonlit beams and gentle currents, Adventure is an addictive album, deftly illustrating that great emotional strength can be wrought from an attitude of restraint and levity. The sculptures, which can attain a rather large size, begin to feel like musical variations on a single theme: the beauty and restraint of a geometric idiom. This replaced the open emotional force and physical excitement of ‘hot’ jazz with deliberate understatement and restraint. The installation radiated elegance, precision and restraint, especially in its subtle use of color. The design is an exercise in restraint, from the unadorned raised back to the discreet rope moulded rim, to the gentle curve of the sabre supports that end on paw feet. Synonyms subtlety, mutedness, understatedness, taste, tastefulness, delicacy, delicateness, discretion, discrimination Origin Late Middle English: from Old French restreinte, feminine past participle of restreindre 'hold back' (see restrain). Rhymes acquaint, ain't, attaint, complaint, constraint, distraint, faint, feint, paint, plaint, quaint, saint, taint Definition of restraint in US English: restraint nounrəˈstreɪntrəˈstrānt 1often restraintsA measure or condition that keeps someone or something under control or within limits. 控制，限制 decisions are made within the financial restraints of the budget 决定是在受预算经费限制的情况下做出的。 Example sentencesExamples Making a film is like choosing a set of restraints, and then trying to express yourself within those restraints. To the film's credit, it certainly makes the best of a small medium, doing the best it can within the limited time restraints. We need to understand your aims and expectations as well as any budget restraints you might have. I think it would be unrealistic if I quickly tried to make them friends within the time restraints of this story. Budgetary restraints dictated simple external works with good connections between the precinct, the river, and the two public parks. The composer chafed under programmatic restraints and felt more comfortable with formal design, a sign of the symphonist to come. Physical restraints of stage production limit the narrative range that would be available within a purely verbal medium such as the epic. Even voluntary export restraints, illegal under the new rules, began to resurface. We accept these restraints on our liberty, because they're needed in order to get adequate security. The wildness in these collaborations is about stretching the parameters of possibility within printmaking restraints. Livestock farmers claim that calling a vet to livestock only happens in extreme emergencies anyway, because of the financial restraints on farming. Bracton imagined a divinely appointed ruler deputed as ‘vicar of God’, who was subject to no earthly restraints beyond his own wisdom. Safety, when construed as the prevention of evil, is achieved by imposing prior restraints on people's conduct. Erik's mannerisms were very much like one who was raised under both the disciplines of a soldier, but also the restraints of a gentleman. He was legal head of the executive, but nearly all his functions were subject to external restraints and under constant supervision by a council elected at the Diet. Strong extended family ties tend to exercise a restraint on deviant behavior, and family meetings are often called to settle problems before they become public. Financial restraints have denied him the chance to remove his lower legs and replace them with artificial limbs that would enable him to run and jump again. Apart from budget restraints, McKean and Gaiman were otherwise free to be extremely inventive. Existing programs must be consolidated, downsized, or eliminated to meet current or reduced budget restraints. Society's methodical and systemic ideals stand challenged wherever individual freedom is put under any restraint. 1.1 The action of keeping someone or something under control. 遏制，抑制 Example sentencesExamples Further, a certain measure of restraint was a condition of sanity amidst the new atmosphere of material abundance. Because cows were not separated from their groups for restraint and treatment, the chance of mixing groups was decreased. The defendants in this case did not break into any computers - and saying that they did is bad for those who value liberty and prosecutorial restraint. Synonyms restraining, holding back, keeping back, biting back, suppression, keeping in check, control, keeping under control, stifling, smothering, bottling up 1.2 Deprivation or restriction of personal liberty or freedom of movement. 限制人身自由；限制活动自由 he remained aggressive and required physical restraint 他仍然具有攻击性，需要限制其行动自由。 Example sentencesExamples Throughout all of her songs, the same common feeling came through; loss of freedom, restraint, dominance, sorrow. The meeting noted that the Claimant frequently requires physical restraint and at times intra muscular medication. Their official role in the courts encompassed analogous responsibilities, restraint of criminals and conservation of justice. And all this just involves the direct restraint on liberty. Synonyms constraint, check, control, restriction, limitation, curtailment confinement, captivity, custody, detention, imprisonment, internment, incarceration, constraint, committal, quarantine, arrest 1.3 A device which limits or prevents freedom of movement. 限制活动自由的设备 car safety restraints 保证汽车安全的限制性装置。 Example sentencesExamples She tugged desperately at her restraints as memory came flooding back, but the chains seemed to be unbreakable. She manages to make a perfectly normal question sound like it's accompanied by a dagger and broken restraints. With a sudden burst of energy and a well timed tug on her chains, Percephony was able to break her restraints. One of them flashed a signal to the nanoprocessor that controlled the bed and the restraints clicked off. She fastened a few restraints to keep me from moving and told me to stay calm. The paramedics now have him turned over and he is in a neck restraint. All five seats now have three-point seat belts and are fitted with head restraints. He says Earnhardt died because he was not wearing a head and neck restraint. Unable to move beyond the fixed boundaries imposed on her by the chain restraints, exercise was difficult. One of the white figures took off her arm restraints as another undid the leg restraints. Never place a rear facing child restraint in front of a passenger side air bag. He removed the lock pick and began to pick at the locks holding his restraints down. What is the policy on using physical restraints or medications to control behavior? Her hands and legs were buckled down in restraints and her head as well, restricting her movements. This car has some of the best seats available at any price and Saab's active safety head restraints have become an industry standard. I long to move - my whole body trembles with excitement - but the restraints on my legs and wrists keep me firmly in place. A novel cover for a safety restraint device is disclosed. The NSC has produced a new booklet on Child Safety in Cars, designed to advise parents on selecting and fitting suitable restraints. There were fewer staff, poorer conditions, and a greater resort to restraints such as strait-jackets to control unruly patients. Tynra tugged at the restraints nailed to the dungeon wall. Synonyms belt, harness, strap 2Unemotional, dispassionate, or moderate behavior; self-control. 克制，拘谨 he urged the protesters to exercise restraint 他敦促抗议者要克制。 Example sentencesExamples The point was to emphasise, for better or worse, that you live well, you survive, when you learn restraint, self-discipline and separation. We urged restraint and respect, putting relief for the families above all else. He was still very young, especially by Drow standards, but his smile had given way to an expression of restraint, and his little arms and legs had grown long and thick. Intensity is what she is after and you don't normally get that by pulling your punches, though of course understatement and restraint can sometimes be equally effective. It took time before James realized that, while he was much richer than he had been in Scotland, he still needed to exercise restraint. As general and president, he employed the power available to him but with moderation and restraint. With so many different guest artists, it becomes increasingly difficult for Tricky to exercise restraint on their contributions. Stone insisted that the judiciary should exercise restraint and recognize the need for the legislative and executive branches to respond to the Great Depression. They're really bombarding the kids, and they're not perhaps willing to exercise any kind of restraint toward marketing on campuses? Because defense counsel had not been permitted to address the jury in trials, it had been understood that counsel for the prosecution would exercise restraint in their speeches. You need to exercise care and restraint when you slip the CPU into the socket. For four decades he has quietly been a voice of reason and restraint in a critical world prone to overstatement. I always said manageable if we continued to pursue policies to promote economic growth and exercised responsible fiscal restraint. The hospitality industry has been urged to exercise restraint in effecting price increases to avoid discouraging tourists from coming to the country in preference to more affordable destinations. Despite calls for investors to exercise patriotic restraint, the market opened with an avalanche of sell orders, driving the Dow to its largest point loss in history. She admired Em's self-control and emotional restraint, yes, but Mona didn't want to be like Em. They suggested that a failure to act would mean that the government would be able to extend the copyright term on future occasions, without judicial restraint. Finally decorum and restraint are swept aside, and the voice explodes, white with anger. Their call on commercial banks to exercise restraint when extending credit may just be the first warning that they are preparing themselves for a marked decrease in demand from consumers in the States. I urge restraint on honourable members so they respect the contribution of another member. Democratic, interest-group politics offered the right combination of freedom and restraint for beings so demonstrably divided against themselves. Synonyms self-control, self-restraint, self-discipline, control, moderation, temperateness, abstemiousness, non-indulgence, prudence, judiciousness reserve, self-restraint, self-control, self-possession, lack of emotion, sobriety, coldness, formality, aloofness, detachment, reticence, uncommunicativeness 2.1 Understatement, especially of artistic expression. （尤指艺术表达中的）低调处理，克制 with strings and piano, all restraint vanished 弦乐器和钢琴一响，所有的温文尔雅都消失了。 Example sentencesExamples This replaced the open emotional force and physical excitement of ‘hot’ jazz with deliberate understatement and restraint. Unencumbered by stylistic restraint, the paintings, prints and drawings present a visionary social realm, freed from the conventions of naturalist description. Its mawkish sentimentality and studied compositional restraint is typical of high Victorian genre painting shown at the Fair. This restraint from easy sentiment sets the tone for the rest of the film. This tonal restraint also contributes to the antique look of the works, whose distressed and pocked surfaces appear to have weathered over time. Erith's extreme architectural restraint was typical of his work up to the mid 1950s. The installation radiated elegance, precision and restraint, especially in its subtle use of color. Leo A Daly appears to have balanced modern design, polished materials, and vibrant colors with just the right amount of formal restraint. Musical, with a clear, refined technique and a demeanor that favors restraint over flashiness, he appears to many the embodiment of the high classicist. The design is an exercise in restraint, from the unadorned raised back to the discreet rope moulded rim, to the gentle curve of the sabre supports that end on paw feet. Her poems are notable for a restraint of expression combined with a powerful and passionate content which distinguish her from many of her Georgian contemporaries. The classical restraint and emotional detachment of Bronzino's work reveal a temperament quite unlike that of his master Pontormo. The next few tracks exercise more restraint but fortunately don't compromise any of the fire of the opening track. It is a splendid novel composed with a poised restraint and admirably captures the contrast between Henry James's vibrant fiction and the elusive, undramatic quality of his own life. The sculptures, which can attain a rather large size, begin to feel like musical variations on a single theme: the beauty and restraint of a geometric idiom. The design of new offices for a firm of lawyers in the southern Spanish city of Cadiz proclaims the virtues of elegant restraint, use of few materials, and manipulation of marvellous south light. The potential for spatial ambiguity - for drama, almost - enriches the loveliness of the objects and the muted restraint with which they are depicted. Following the birth of his son, he gave himself over to a rapturous, sensual engagement with paint that seemed to fly in the face of his previous restraint. Vigroux and Evett are both accomplished players, and have enough experience to recognize that good instrumental music is an exercise in restraint. With its moonlit beams and gentle currents, Adventure is an addictive album, deftly illustrating that great emotional strength can be wrought from an attitude of restraint and levity. Synonyms subtlety, mutedness, understatedness, taste, tastefulness, delicacy, delicateness, discretion, discrimination Origin Late Middle English: from Old French restreinte, feminine past participle of restreindre ‘hold back’ (see restrain).
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