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Detained

Detain \De*tain"\ (d[-e]*t[=a]n"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Detained; p. pr. & vb. n. Detaining.] [F. d['e]tenir, L. detinere, detentum; de + tenere to hold. See Tenable.]

  1. To keep back or from; to withhold.

    Detain not the wages of the hireling.
    --Jer. Taylor.

  2. 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.
    --Judges xiii. 15.

  3. To hold or keep in custody.

    Syn: To withhold; retain; stop; stay; arrest; check; retard; delay; hinder.

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detained

vb. (en-past of: detain)

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Detained (Star Trek: Enterprise)

"Detained" is the twenty-first episode (production #121) of the television series Star Trek: Enterprise. It is noteworthy for reuniting Scott Bakula with Dean Stockwell for the first time since the series Quantum Leap.

Captain Archer and Ensign Mayweather are detained by the Tandarans in a Suliban internment camp. Learning of the Suliban's persecution by the Tandarans, Archer enlists the aid of Enterprise and his crew.

Detained (film)

Detained is a 1924 silent comedy film starring Stan Laurel.

Detained (novel)

Detained is a 2015 political thriller written by Don Brown. It was initially released in April, 2015.

Detained

Detained may refer to Detention (imprisonment)

  • Detained (film), a 1924 silent starring Stan Laurel
  • "Detained" (Star Trek: Enterprise), an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise
  • Detained (novel), a 2015 novel by Don Brown

Usage examples of "detained".

A few years later, when Sarah came onto Clark Air Base in the Philippines to entertain the troops there, Colonel Adair had her detained.

By contrast, in the months following the most devastating terrorist attack in world history, in which 3,000 Americans were killed, John Ashcroft detained 766 non-citizens, many on immigration violations.

Grimani and informed him that you have not left the fort, and that you are even now detained in it, and that the plaintiff is at liberty, if he chooses, to send commissaries to ascertain the fact.

The day of her departure, wishing to cause her an agreeable surprise, I left Rome before them and waited for them at the place where I thought they would put up for the night, but the advocate, having been detained by several engagements, was detained in Rome, and they only reached the place next day for dinner.

But some unexpected mishap might have detained him, and I could not go and fetch her myself at her house, even if I had feared nothing else than to miss them on the road.

The wall had to be dismantled, of course, but that alone would not have detained him, for Lord Alexandros had left a couple of biremes and crews for his use.

In the all-important early month at least four or five thousand Boers were detained by them when their presence elsewhere would have been fatal.

He explained that he too had been detained at several checkpoints, and like Murdick he was not angry with the guards, but rather with the aliens who made the checkpoints necessary.

Quelf says that you have been detained for your own protection, but if the halfgod is offended, your guards might be ordered to destroy you.

In this mood of mere poetical susceptibility, I visited the ancient keep of the castle, where James the First of Scotland, the pride and theme of Scottish poets and historians, was for many years of his youth detained a prisoner of state.

Meanwhile the Mahometan authorities at Nablus were so conscious of having acted unlawfully in conspiring to disturb the faith of the beautiful infidel, that they hesitated to take any further steps, and the girl was still detained in the mosque.

Stoker was alone m the pulpit, the Rev. Doctor Pemberton having been detained by slight indisposition.

To answer that question, Kirstin had detained Zeke Choy once again, questioning him extensively on the subject of Phousita's personality.

Uncle Gideon, reassured by Bibbs's explanation, would have returned to finish his quotation from Bildad the Shuhite, but Bibbs detained him, and after a little argument persuaded him to descend to the dining-room whither Bibbs followed, after closing the door of his father's room.

Apart from the catnapper, who I was pleased to see had been detained, there seemed to be no one left inside.