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. Eric Adams:

   The interstate task force on illegal guns is an important first step. But we must also address bail reform and our pre-trial detention system, new York is the only state in the country that does not allow a judge to detain a defendant who poses an immediate threat to the community. Other states, as well as the federal government, allow judges to consider a defendant’s dangerousness.

2. Southaven Police Chief Tom Long:

   Officers attempted to detain the subject who began to resist and run from them again.

3. Thomas Homan:

   [it’s] decided to detain them and deport them. we're fixing the policy. People will still get due process.

4. Syahredzan Johan:

   Parliamentary immunity does not extend to alleged offences under the Sedition Act, but there's the more important argument that you need to detain her overnight, when all you wanted to do was record her statement.

5. Kirstjen Nielsen:

   Today, legal loopholes significantly hinder the Department's ability to appropriately detain and promptly remove family units that have no legal basis to remain in the country, this rule addresses one of the primary pull factors for illegal immigration and allows the federal government to enforce immigration laws as passed by Congress.

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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
   https://chat.openai.com
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