What does arrest mean?
Definitions for arrest
əˈrɛstar·rest
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word arrest.
Princeton's WordNet
apprehension, arrest, catch, collar, pinch, taking into custody(noun)
the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
"the policeman on the beat got credit for the collar"
arrest, check, halt, hitch, stay, stop, stoppage(verb)
the state of inactivity following an interruption
"the negotiations were in arrest"; "held them in check"; "during the halt he got some lunch"; "the momentary stay enabled him to escape the blow"; "he spent the entire stop in his seat"
collar, nail, apprehend, arrest, pick up, nab, cop(verb)
take into custody
"the police nabbed the suspected criminals"
check, turn back, arrest, stop, contain, hold back(verb)
hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
"Arrest the downward trend"; "Check the growth of communism in South East Asia"; "Contain the rebel movement"; "Turn back the tide of communism"
catch, arrest, get(verb)
attract and fix
"His look caught her"; "She caught his eye"; "Catch the attention of the waiter"
halt, hold, arrest(verb)
cause to stop
"Halt the engines"; "Arrest the progress"; "halt the presses"
Wiktionary
arrest(Noun)
A check, stop, an act or instance of arresting something.
Etymology: From arester, from *, from ad- + restare, from re- + stare, from steh₂-.
arrest(Noun)
The condition of being stopped, standstill.
Etymology: From arester, from *, from ad- + restare, from re- + stare, from steh₂-.
arrest(Noun)
The act of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.
Etymology: From arester, from *, from ad- + restare, from re- + stare, from steh₂-.
arrest(Noun)
A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.
Etymology: From arester, from *, from ad- + restare, from re- + stare, from steh₂-.
arrest(Noun)
A device to physically arrest motion.
Etymology: From arester, from *, from ad- + restare, from re- + stare, from steh₂-.
arrest(Verb)
To stop the motion of (a person or animal).
Etymology: From arester, from *, from ad- + restare, from re- + stare, from steh₂-.
arrest(Verb)
To stay, remain.
Etymology: From arester, from *, from ad- + restare, from re- + stare, from steh₂-.
arrest(Verb)
To stop (a process, course etc.).
Etymology: From arester, from *, from ad- + restare, from re- + stare, from steh₂-.
arrest(Verb)
To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody.
Etymology: From arester, from *, from ad- + restare, from re- + stare, from steh₂-.
arrest(Verb)
To catch the attention of.
Etymology: From arester, from *, from ad- + restare, from re- + stare, from steh₂-.
Webster Dictionary
Arrest(verb)
to stop; to check or hinder the motion or action of; as, to arrest the current of a river; to arrest the senses
Etymology: [OE. arest, arrest, OF. arest, F. arrt, fr. arester. See Arrest, v. t., Arrt.]
Arrest(verb)
to take, seize, or apprehend by authority of law; as, to arrest one for debt, or for a crime
Etymology: [OE. arest, arrest, OF. arest, F. arrt, fr. arester. See Arrest, v. t., Arrt.]
Arrest(verb)
to seize on and fix; to hold; to catch; as, to arrest the eyes or attention
Etymology: [OE. arest, arrest, OF. arest, F. arrt, fr. arester. See Arrest, v. t., Arrt.]
Arrest(verb)
to rest or fasten; to fix; to concentrate
Etymology: [OE. arest, arrest, OF. arest, F. arrt, fr. arester. See Arrest, v. t., Arrt.]
Arrest(verb)
to tarry; to rest
Etymology: [OE. arest, arrest, OF. arest, F. arrt, fr. arester. See Arrest, v. t., Arrt.]
Arrest(verb)
the act of stopping, or restraining from further motion, etc.; stoppage; hindrance; restraint; as, an arrest of development
Etymology: [OE. arest, arrest, OF. arest, F. arrt, fr. arester. See Arrest, v. t., Arrt.]
Arrest(verb)
the taking or apprehending of a person by authority of law; legal restraint; custody. Also, a decree, mandate, or warrant
Etymology: [OE. arest, arrest, OF. arest, F. arrt, fr. arester. See Arrest, v. t., Arrt.]
Arrest(verb)
any seizure by power, physical or moral
Etymology: [OE. arest, arrest, OF. arest, F. arrt, fr. arester. See Arrest, v. t., Arrt.]
Arrest(verb)
a scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse; -- also named rat-tails
Etymology: [OE. arest, arrest, OF. arest, F. arrt, fr. arester. See Arrest, v. t., Arrt.]
Freebase
Arrest
An arrest is the act of depriving a person of his or her liberty usually in relation to the purported investigation or prevention of crime and presenting to a procedure as part of the criminal justice system. The term is Anglo-Norman in origin and is related to the French word arrêt, meaning "stop". Arrest, when used in its ordinary and natural sense, means the apprehension of a person or the deprivation of a person's liberty. The question whether the person is under arrest or not depends not on the legality of the arrest, but on whether the person has been deprived of personal liberty of movement. When used in the legal sense in the procedure connected with criminal offences, an arrest consists in the taking into custody of another person under authority empowered by law, to be held or detained to answer a criminal charge or to prevent the commission of a criminal or further offence. The essential elements to constitute an arrest in the above sense are that there must be an intent to arrest under the authority, accompanied by a seizure or detention of the person in the manner known to law, which is so understood by the person arrested Police and various other bodies have powers of arrest. In some places, the power is more general; for example in England and Wales—with the notable exception of the Monarch, the head of state—any person can arrest "anyone whom he has reasonable grounds for suspecting to be committing, have committed or be guilty of committing an indictable offence", although certain conditions must be met before taking such action.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Arrest
ar-rest′, v.t. to stop: to seize: to catch the attention: to apprehend by legal authority.—n. stoppage: seizure by warrant.—adj. Arrest′able, liable to be arrested.—n. Arrestā′tion, the act of arresting: arrest.—adj. Arrest′ive, with a tendency to arrest.—n. Arrest′ment (law), detention of a person arrested till liberated on bail, or by security: (Scots law) the process which prohibits a debtor from making payment to his creditor until another debt due to the person making use of the arrestment by such creditor is paid. [O. Fr. arester—L. ad, to, restāre, to stand still.]
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
arrest
The suspension of an officer's duty, and restraint of his person, previous to trying him by a court martial. Seamen in Her Majesty's service cannot be arrested for debts under twenty pounds, and that contracted before they entered the navy. Yet it is held in law, that this affords no exemption from arrests either in civil or criminal suits.
Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
arrest
The temporary confinement of officers in barracks, quarters, or tents, pending trial by court-martial, or the consideration of their imputed offenses previous to deciding whether they shall or shall not be tried. (See Appendix, Articles of War, 65.) Private soldiers are usually placed under guard; by the custom of the service non-commissioned officers may be simply placed in arrest in quarters.
arrest
(Old Fr., now arret). A French phrase, similar in its import to the Latin word retinaculum; it consisted of a small piece of steel or iron, which was formerly used in the construction of fire-arms, to prevent the piece from going off. A familiar phrase among military men in France is, Ce pistolet est en arret, “this pistol is in arrest or is stopped.”
British National Corpus
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'arrest' in Nouns Frequency: #1721
Verbs Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'arrest' in Verbs Frequency: #458
Anagrams for arrest »
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of arrest in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of arrest in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of arrest in a Sentence
The government can't create this path and then arrest the people who are walking on it.
If you don't do it now, the arrest warrant will go next time, that is how it looks, like a warning.
What troubles me is that when you are vilified in the media, as has Mr. Harvey Weinstein, there is a rush to judgment, which is offensive to the concept of fairness and due process, there is a rush to arrest, there is pressure to arrest, and what we see is that happened in this case.
When interviewed after Fareed Mumuni arrest, Munther Omar Saleh said that Clarion Project The terror group planned to bomb a location, use a vehicle to run down police officers, and then use their weapons to attack others.
Our cardiac arrest results are very impressive, with our survival rates among the world’s best, about 30 % of people whose heart is in a shockable rhythm survive, which is a 10-fold increase compared to survival rates in 1995.
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Translations for arrest
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- تَوقيف, اعتقل, اعتقالArabic
- приковавам, задържане, арест, хващам, арестуване, аретир, спиране, арестувам, успокоител, спирам, задържамBulgarian
- arrestCatalan, Valencian
- zatknout, zadržet, zatčeníCzech
- arestioWelsh
- arrestere, bremse, anholde, standse, pågribe, stoppeDanish
- Verhaftung, Festnahme, verhaften, festnehmen, arretieren, ArrestGerman
- συλλαμβάνω, σύλληψηGreek
- arestoEsperanto
- parar, paro, arresto, detener, detenidoSpanish
- دستگیر کردن, توقیف, دستگیریPersian
- vangita, pysähtyminen, pidättäminen, pysähdys, pidätys, pysäyttää, pidättää, pysäyttäminen, esteFinnish
- arrestation, arrêterFrench
- coisc, gabhIrish
- letartóztat, elfog, megállítHungarian
- ձերբակալել, կալանք, ձերբակալությունArmenian
- arrestareItalian
- 検挙, 逮捕する, 捕えるJapanese
- დაყოვნება, დაპატიმრება, დატუსაღება, შეჩერებაGeorgian
- urutūMāori
- хүлээлгэхMongolian
- arrest, grijpen, vatten, aanhouden, stoppen, arresteren, in hechtenis nemen, oppakken, stilstand, arrestatie, stuiten, aanhoudingDutch
- areszt, aresztować, powstrzymać, przykuć, aresztowaniePolish
- deter, prisão, parar, prenderPortuguese
- arestare, opri, arest, aresta, deține, deținereRomanian
- арестовать, арест, арестовыватьRussian
- uhićenjeSerbo-Croatian
- stoppa, bromsa, fånga, gripaSwedish
- nasaSwahili
- จับตัว, ยั้ง, จับได้Thai
- tevkif etmek, tutuklamaTurkish
- گرفتاریUrdu
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