Definitions for detain
dɪˈteɪnde·tain

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. confine, detainverb

   deprive of freedom; take into confinement

2. stay, detain, delayverb

   stop or halt

   "Please stay the bloodshed!"

3. delay, detain, hold upverb

   cause to be slowed down or delayed

   "Traffic was delayed by the bad weather"; "she delayed the work that she didn't want to perform"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. detainverb

   Keep (someone) from proceeding by holding them back or making claims on their attention.

2. detainverb

   To put under custody.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To DETAINverb

   Etymology: detineo, Latin.

   1. To keep that which belongs to another.

   Detain not the wages of the hireling; for every degree of detention of it, beyond the time, is injustice and uncharitableness. Jeremy Taylor, Rule of living holy.

   2. To withold; to keep back.

   These doings sting him
   So venomously, that burning shame detains him
   From his Cordelia. William Shakespeare, King Lear.

   He has described the passion of Calypso, and the indecent advances she made to detain him from his country. William Broome.

   3. To restrain from departure.

   Let us detain thee until we shall have made ready a kid. Judg. xiii. 15.

   Had Orpheus sung it in the nether sphere,
   So much the hymn had pleas’d the tyrant’s ear,
   The wife had been detain’d to keep her husband there. Dry.

   4. To hold in custody.

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1. detain

   To detain is to keep or hold someone temporarily or to delay their movement or progress, often in legal circumstances, such as law enforcement keeping someone in custody while carrying out an investigation.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Detainverb

   to keep back or from; to withhold

2. Detainverb

   to restrain from proceeding; to stay or stop; to delay; as, we were detained by an accident

3. Detainverb

   to hold or keep in custody

4. Detainnoun

   detention

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Detain

   de-tān′, v.t. to hold from or back: to stop: to keep: to keep in custody.—ns. Detain′er, one who detains: (law) the holding of what belongs to another: a warrant to a sheriff to keep in custody a person already in confinement: Detain′ment (same as Detention). [O. Fr. detenir—L. detinēre—de, from, and tenēre, to hold.]

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1. danite

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of detain in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of detain in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of detain in a Sentence

1. Donald Trump:

   What I'm asking Congress to do is to give us a third option, which we have been requesting since last year, the legal authority to detain and promptly remove families together as a unit. We have to be able to do this. This is the only solution to the border crisis.

2. President Raimonds Vejonis:

   I don’t believe that we need to close borders because in reality these people who are involved in terrorism are already mainly European citizens. It means our security institutions need to work more carefully and intensively to recognize such individuals and detain them if necessary.

3. Jerry Brown:

   Let's be crystal clear on the scope of this mission, this will not be a mission to build a new wall. It will not be a mission to round up women and children or detain people escaping violence and seeking a better life. And National Guard will not be enforcing federal immigration laws.

4. Ali Noorani:

   Our federal prisons are set up to detain the worst of the worst. They should not be used for immigration purposes, federal prisons are for hardened criminals. They are not physically set up for immigrant landscapers looking for a job or fleeing violence.

5. Claude Arnold:

   Defenders of sanctuary policies say they protect immigrants from deportation and reduce illegal immigrants ’ fear of cops. But critics, including Homeland Security Department officials say releasing illegal immigrant criminals inside the U.S. is dangerous. Claude Arnold, a retired U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations, said sanctuary advocates claim immigration enforcement is the exclusive responsibility of the federal government, however enacting laws like the California Trust Act, which dictates how the federal government can enforce the law, contradicts those claims and can be devastating consequences. The murder of 32-year-old Kathlene Steinle’s in June 2015 by Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, is a prime example, Claude Arnold said. Steinle was shot dead while strolling on San Francisco’s Embarcadero with her father. The alleged shooter, a felon and five-time deportee, has pleaded not guilty to murder charges, claiming the shooting was an accident. Those responsible for releasing him not long before the shooting despite a federal request to detain him for deportation should also have consequences, Claude Arnold said. When sanctuary jurisdictions like San Francisco County release criminals that officials know are in the U.S. illegally, and those criminals commit heinous crimes, those responsible should be federally prosecuted.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=detain
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Detain
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=detain
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/detain
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=detain