"constraining" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more constraining",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most constraining",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "constraining (comparative more constraining, superlative most constraining)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "85 8 8",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "84 8 8",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "88 6 6",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "constrainingly"
        },
        {
          "word": "unconstraining"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "That constrains."
      ],
      "id": "en-constraining-en-adj-BZKjZVQ1"
    }
  ],
  "word": "constraining"
}

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "verb form"
      },
      "expansion": "constraining",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              311,
              323
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2025 April 16, Pip Dunn, “The future is orange....”, in RAIL, number 1033, page 53:",
          "text": "But the design of the '730s' wasn't just about the seating formation. The Metro-style walkthrough interior was chosen because it is much more spacious than the '323s', where the interconnecting doors between carriages, narrow central aisle, and cramped areas by the passenger doors had been deemed particularly constraining.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "constrain"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "present participle and gerund of constrain"
      ],
      "id": "en-constraining-en-verb-cLj-PVol",
      "links": [
        [
          "constrain",
          "constrain#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "gerund",
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "constraining"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "constrainings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "constraining (countable and uncountable, plural constrainings)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              57,
              70
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1996, Mike Michael, Constructing Identities: The Social, the Nonhuman and Change:",
          "text": "In contrast to the (to be sure, productive) shapings and constrainings of human identities in the sociotechnical network, here we have an expansion of identity.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The act by which something is constrained."
      ],
      "id": "en-constraining-en-noun-bLstSgJO",
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "constraining"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English non-lemma forms",
    "English nouns",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "English verb forms",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "constrainingly"
    },
    {
      "word": "unconstraining"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more constraining",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most constraining",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "constraining (comparative more constraining, superlative most constraining)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "That constrains."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "constraining"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English non-lemma forms",
    "English nouns",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "English verb forms",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "verb form"
      },
      "expansion": "constraining",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              311,
              323
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2025 April 16, Pip Dunn, “The future is orange....”, in RAIL, number 1033, page 53:",
          "text": "But the design of the '730s' wasn't just about the seating formation. The Metro-style walkthrough interior was chosen because it is much more spacious than the '323s', where the interconnecting doors between carriages, narrow central aisle, and cramped areas by the passenger doors had been deemed particularly constraining.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "constrain"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "present participle and gerund of constrain"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "constrain",
          "constrain#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "gerund",
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "constraining"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English non-lemma forms",
    "English nouns",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "English verb forms",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "constrainings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "constraining (countable and uncountable, plural constrainings)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              57,
              70
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1996, Mike Michael, Constructing Identities: The Social, the Nonhuman and Change:",
          "text": "In contrast to the (to be sure, productive) shapings and constrainings of human identities in the sociotechnical network, here we have an expansion of identity.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The act by which something is constrained."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "constraining"
}