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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ld \Ld.\ n. The abbreviation for {limited}, term appended to the name of a company that is organized to give its owners limited liability; also abbreviated {Ltd.} It corresponds to {Inc.} in the United States. [Chiefly British] [abbr.]
Syn: limited company, Ltd. [WordNet 1.5]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Limit \Lim"it\ (l[i^]m"[i^]t), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Limited}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Limiting}.] [F. limiter, L. limitare, fr. limes, limitis, limit; prob. akin to limen threshold, E. eliminate; cf. L. limus sidelong.] To apply a limit to, or set a limit for; to terminate, circumscribe, or restrict, by a limit or limits; as, to limit the acreage of a crop; to limit the issue of paper money; to limit one's ambitions or aspirations; to limit the meaning of a word.
{Limiting parallels} (Astron.), those parallels of latitude between which only an occultation of a star or planet by the moon, in a given case, can occur.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Limited \Lim"it*ed\ (l[i^]m"[i^]t*[e^]d), adjective Confined within limits; narrow; circumscribed; restricted; as, our views of nature are very limited.
{Limited company}, a company in which the liability of each shareholder is limited by the number of shares he has taken, so that he can not be called on to contribute beyond the amount of his shares. [Eng.] --Mozley & W.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
limited
adjective
1: small in range or scope; "limited war"; "a limited success"; "a limited circle of friends" [ant: {unlimited}]
2: subject to limits or subjected to limits [syn: {circumscribed}]
3: including only a part
4: mediocre [syn: {modified}]
5: not excessive
6: having a specific function or scope; "a special (or specific) role in the mission" [syn: {special}]
7: not unlimited; "a limited list of choices"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
183 Moby Thesaurus words for "limited": Amtrak, Lenten, Spartan, abstemious, angustifoliate, angustirostrate, angustisellate, angustiseptal, ascetic, austere, authoritative, baggage train, borne, bound, bounded, boxed in, cable railroad, chastened, choo-choo, circumscribed, close, close-fitting, cog railroad, cog railway, conditioned, confined, constrained, constricted, controlled, copyrighted, cramp, cramped, crowded, determinate, dinky, disciplined, dwarfed, dwarfish, el, electric, electric train, elevated, exiguous, expert, express, express train, feature, featured, finite, fixed, flier, freight, freight train, freighter, frugal, funicular, geographically limited, goods train, half-pint, hedged, hedged about, hedged in, hemmed in, hushed, icebound, impoverished, in control, in hand, incapacious, incommodious, ineffectual, insular, interurban, isthmian, isthmic, jejune, knee-high, knowledgeable, landlocked, lean, leavened, lightning express, little, local, localized, meager, mean, metro, milk train, minimal, miserly, mitigated, moderated, modified, modulated, monorail, narrow, near, niggardly, of a place, one-horse, paltry, parliamentary, parliamentary train, parochial, parsimonious, passenger train, patented, petite, piddling, pindling, pint-sized, poky, poor, precise, predetermined, prescribed, proscribed, provincial, puny, qualified, quelled, rack-and-pinion railroad, railroad train, rattler, reduced, reserved, restrained, restricted, restrictive, rolling stock, scant, scanty, scrawny, scrimp, scrimpy, seasoned, set, short, shuttle, shuttle train, skimp, skimpy, slender, slight, slim, small, smallish, snowbound, softened, spare, sparing, special, specialist, specialistic, specialized, stable, starvation, stingy, stinted, strait, straitened, streamliner, stunted, subdued, subsistence, subway, technical, tempered, thin, tight, topical, train, tube, two-by-four, underground, unnourishing, unnutritious, vernacular, watered, watery, way train, windbound
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