JAIL

jail, jailhouse, gaol, clink, slammer, poky, pokey

(noun) a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)

imprison, incarcerate, lag, immure, put behind bars, jail, jug, gaol, put away, remand

(verb) lock up or confine, in or as in a jail; “The suspects were imprisoned without trial”; “the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

jail (countable and uncountable, plural jails)

A place or institution for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody or detention, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding.

(uncountable) Confinement in a jail.

(horse racing) The condition created by the requirement that a horse claimed in a claiming race not be run at another track for some period of time (usually 30 days).

In dodgeball and related games, the area where players who have been struck by the ball are confined.

(computing, FreeBSD) A kind of sandbox for running a guest operating system instance.

Usage notes

• (place of confinement): Like many nouns denoting places where people spend time, jail requires no article after certain prepositions: hence in jail, go to jail, and so on. The forms in a jail, go to a jail, and so on do exist, but tend to imply mere presence in the jail, rather than detention there.

• Until Monopoly popularised the spelling jail in the UK and Australia, gaol was the standard spelling in these countries.

Synonyms

• (place of confinement): slammer, hoosegow

Hypernyms

• (place of confinement): correctional facility, correctional institution

Coordinate terms

• (place of confinement): big house, prison

Verb

jail (third-person singular simple present jails, present participle jailing, simple past and past participle jailed)

To imprison.

Synonyms

• imprison

• incarcerate

Anagrams

• jali

Source: Wiktionary

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Jail, n. Etym: [OE. jaile, gail, gayhol, OF. gaole, gaiole, jaiole, F. geôle, LL. gabiola, dim. of gabia cage, for L. cavea cavity, cage. See Cage.]

Definition: A kind of prison; a building for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding. [Written also gaol.] This jail I count the house of liberty. Milton. Jail bird, a prisoner; one who has been confined in prison. [Slang] - - Jail delivery, the release of prisoners from jail, either legally or by violence.

– Jail delivery commission. See under Gaol.

– Jail fever (Med.), typhus fever, or a disease resembling it, generated in jails and other places crowded with people; -- called also hospital fever, and ship fever.

– Jail liberties, or Jail limits, a space or district around a jail within which an imprisoned debtor was, on certain conditions, allowed to go at large. Abbott.

– Jail lock, a peculiar form of padlock; -- called also Scandinavian lock.

Jail, v. t.

Definition: To imprison. [R.] T. Adams (1614). [Bolts] that jail you from free life. Tennyson.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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