Definition of Rein

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Definition of Rein

Rein

The strap of a bridle, fastened to the curb or snaffle on each side, by which the rider or driver governs the horse.

Hence, an instrument or means of curbing, restraining, or governing; government; restraint.

To govern or direct with the reins; as, to rein a horse one way or another.

To restrain; to control; to check.

To be guided by reins.

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Rein Quotations

The people at the top of the league think they need to rein me in so I don't become another Michael Jordan, somebody they aren't able to mold and shape and make their puppet.
Dennis Rodman

In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race.
Charles Babbage

Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.
Anna Quindlen

With Altman, he does discuss everything with you, but then leaves you to it and gives you full rein and lets you improvise and create a character while the camera is rolling.
Vincent D'Onofrio

The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn.
Lucian Freud

Domestic discretionary spending on education and health care and the environment has been growing at 2 to 3 percent a year. He says we have to rein it in, but he ignores the spending category that is the big spike in the budget.
John Spratt

This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.
Amelia Barr

Certainly in cartooning I'm given huge free rein at the moment.
Jonathan Shapiro

I set about seeking a thread, a theme, a style, in the realm of legend. Something that might allow me to give free rein to my juvenile sense of romanticism and the beautiful image.
Leni Riefenstahl

So, without being cold, you really have to try to retain the capacity to help people without becoming too emotional or allowing your own emotions to have full rein.
Guy Green

Rein Translations

rein in French is frein
rein in Italian is freno
rein in Spanish is rienda, brida
rein in Swedish is tygel, tygla

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