Crossword clues for confinement
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Confinement \Con*fine"ment\, n.
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Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion.
The mind hates restraint, and is apt to fancy itself under confinement when the sight is pent up.
--Addison. Restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by childbirth; lying-in.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, from French confinement (16c.; the Old French word was confinacion), from confiner (see confine). As a euphemism for "childbed" it dates from 1774 (the Middle English expression was Our Lady's bands).
Wiktionary
n. 1 the act of confining or the state of being confined 2 lying-in, time of giving birth
WordNet
Wikipedia
Confinement may refer to either
- With respect to humans:
- Civil confinement for psychiatric patients
- Solitary confinement, a strict form of imprisonment
- Term used to describe the time during which a woman is in childbirth.
- The traditional postnatal confinement of a woman after childbirth that is practiced by some Asian cultures
- The confinement of an animal specimen in a zoo
- In physics:
- Color confinement, the physical principle explaining the non-observation of color charged particles like free quarks
- Confinement of thermonuclear plasmas, as a necessary requirement to obtain fusion energy
- Confinement of liquids by pores or similar
Usage examples of "confinement".
A friend, resident on the frontiers of Assam, tells me that the full-grown adult pines and dies in confinement.
I played very meek and frightened, Blade, and then I wept and told Beata that confinement was killing me.
One or two bottles of this nervine and tonic used previous to confinement, will, in many cases, save hours of terrible suffering, besides regulating the system, and thus insuring a speedy recovery.
Released from their confinement after ten days, they had been left with just six guards while the rest had opted for Earthfall, whatever risks it involved.
Visigoths, breaking from their confinement, satiated their hunger and revenge by the repeated devastation of the fruitful country, which extends above three hundred miles from the banks of the Danube to the straits of the Hellespont.
Once again he struck me as being a strange mixture of personal hauntedness, complete confinement in his own panicky universe, and yet at the same time open to all kinds of experiences from the outer world.
They thought her safely in confinement, and all the time she had this simple holdout spell, courtesy of her visit to Devale and a sweaty night.
It should, however, be borne in mind that, owing to few animals breeding freely under confinement, few experiments have been fairly tried: for instance, the canary-bird has been crossed with nine other finches, but as not one of these nine species breeds freely in confinement, we have no right to expect that the first crosses between them and the canary, or that their hybrids, should be perfectly fertile.
The clock had now struck twelve, and every one in the house were in their beds, except the centinel who stood to guard Northerton, when Jones softly opening his door, issued forth in pursuit of his enemy, of whose place of confinement he had received a perfect description from the drawer.
Miss Sanderson, you are aware that half a dozen adult lunes in your backyard on a moon night does not comply with the laws of confinement?
He was the only inmate who was not a Japanese citizen, the only one who had never been sentenced, and the only one being held in solitary confinement with no record of misbehavior in prison.
The game of first memories had been skirmishing, a confinement of the answer by the phrasing of the question, small preemptions of spirit.
How needless was this confinement of our rations to corn meal, and especially to such wretchedly prepared meal, is conclusively shown by the Rebel testimony heretofore given.
There were times, she thought restively, when she felt as if she was in solitary confinement.
The dorsal streaks and spots were absent, but then he says the animal had been in confinement, and, as I have said before, this tends to make the dark parts disappear.