detain
dɪˈteɪn
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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" -
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stop or halt "Please stay the bloodshed!" -
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detain
deprive of freedom; take into confinement
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Detention. -
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To hold or keep in custody. -
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To keep back or from; to withhold. "Detain not the wages of the hireling." -
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To restrain from proceeding; to stay or stop; to delay; as, we were detained by an accident. "Let us detain thee, until we shall have made ready a kid for thee."
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To keep back or away; withhold; specifically, to keep or retain unjustly. -
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To keep or restrain from proceeding; stay or stop: as, we were detained by the rain. -
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In law, to hold in custody. Synonyms To retard, delay, hinder, cheek, retain. -
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detain
Detention.
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Detain
de-tān′ to hold from or back: to stop: to keep: to keep in custody
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary F. détenir, L. detinere, detentum,; de, + tenere, to hold. See Tenable
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary O. Fr. detenir—L. detinēre—de, from, and tenēre, to hold.
Korea says it has detained a US citizen for unspecified crime, prepares to indict him. crescent-news.com
Korea says it has detained a US citizen for unspecified crime, prepares to indict him SEOUL, South Korea (AP). crescent-news.com
Law enforcement officials are vastly expanding their collection of DNA to include millions more people who have been arrested or detained but not yet convicted. nytimes.com
A state judge in Crowley has ordered the Vermilion Parish sheriff to provide records of immigrants detained since 2009 to a legal nonprofit. dsu.com
Shackled in handcuffs, Gabriel Carrillo was being detained in a small break room near the visitors' lobby in Men's Central Jail when, he says, a Sheriff's deputy knocked him to the floor with an uppercut. laweekly.com
Riley County police say a 14-year-old boy was detained after he was caught pleasuring himself in a public waiting room . ibw.com
Riley County police say a 14-year-old boy was detained after he was caught pleasuring himself in a public waiting room. ibw.com
Nazi-era war crime suspect detained. seattletimes.nwsource.com
Detained Iran Hikers' Families Write of Heartache. cbsnews.com
The families of the three American hikers apparently detained by Iranian authorities after mistakenly crossing the unmarked border from Iraqi Kurdistan into Iran have put out a statement calling for the hikers' release. cbsnews.com
China Detains 2 for Wuhan Pollution Rumor, Daily Reports. businessweek.com
Kassim Ahmad, forty-four, a leading Malaysian poet and writer of short stories, was arrested by the Malaysian government on November 3, 1976 and subsequently detained without trial under Malaysia's Internal Security Act. nybooks.com
Croatian police have detained managers of a local pharmaceutical company, its 27 employees and dozens of doctors suspected of corruption. thestate.com
BEIJING (AP) — Police detained a monk and his nephew in China's Sichuan province and accused them of instigating the self-immolations of eight ethnic Tibetans on the instructions of the Dalai Lama and his followers, state media said. chron.com
Police detained a monk and his nephew in China's Sichuan province and accused them of instigating the self-immolations of eight ethnic Tibetans on the instructions of the Dalai Lama and his followers, state media said. thestate.com
These details need not detain us, since we are seeking inspiration rather than philosophical precision.
Evaluating Defaults
This has been done in detain in , so we will only accentuate the main results here, referring the reader to the original paper for a thorough explanation.
A Random Matrix Approach to VARMA Processes
The finer details of the decoherence mechanism, and the work t hat remains to be done to fully understand them, need not detain us here.
How Classical Particles Emerge From the Quantum World
Whatever turns out to be the final configuration, being the star somehow rebalanced or destroyed, the unstable phase must be detained and the vacuum must evolve to some new stationary regime.
Particle creation due to tachyonic instability in relativistic stars
For this end, the reading of Sect. 2 is sufficient and the references cited may be consulted for more detains and proofs of some assertions.
Handbook of normal frames and coordinates
I need not detain you with a description of my voyage down Channel. "A Boy's Voyage Round the World" by
The vessels were detained by the Dutch at Java, and many of the seamen died in captivity. "The History of Tasmania, Volume I (of 2)" by
Every night it was necessary to land, and often the storm detained them for many hours. "The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago" by
Sir Henry, who is a violent man, and here has almost regal sway, determined to detain you till you surrendered up the child. "Japhet in Search of a Father" by
I believe I admonished the Senate two hours ago that time was very precious; and I shall not detain them myself. "A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention" by
Senta is about to run away to welcome him, but is detained by Erick, who tries to win her for himself. "The Standard Operaglass" by
Madeleine would have followed, but Maurice seized her hand detainingly. "Fairy Fingers" by
The squadron when collected was detained by contrary winds. "Sir Walter Ralegh" by
Detained at Calais till seven. "The Greville Memoirs" by
Detestable weather, of which the worst winter in Paris can give no idea, detained the French expedition for three weeks. "Celebrated Travels and Travellers" by
And spurn'd a tyrant's chain,
Let not thy strong oppressive force
A free-born mouse detain.
We dare not ask your longer stay;
And may winds and waves of ocean,
Waft you safely on your way.
And, stirred by hauntings, he must needs repair
To where the tomb was. Lo, it stood still wasting
In no man's care.
Dumbly to the dim transfigured breast,
Or with tragic gesture would detain us
From the age-long search for rest?
And at his hands my punishment implore,
Because I us'd their wages to detain,
And ruin'd such a number of the poor.
Which made the devil and his angels fall:
Lost him and them the joys that they were in,
And now in hell detains them bound in thrall.
