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confinement Definition

con·fine·ment (kən fīn′mənt)

noun

a confining or being confined; specif.,

  1. imprisonment
  2. limitation; restriction; restraint
  3. childbirth; lying-in

confinement Synonyms

confinement

n.

  1. The state of being confined

    restriction, limitation, circumscription, constraint, repression, control, coercion, keeping, safekeeping, custody, quarantine, curb, bounding, bounds, trammels, check, closeness, bonds, detention, imprisonment, incarceration, immuration; see also captivity, chains, imprisonment 1, jail, restraint 2.

    Antonyms freedom*, release*, independence. *

  2. The period that accompanies childbirth

    lying-in, accouchement, childbed, delivery, parturition, childbirth, travail, labor, one's time*; see also childbirth, delivery 2.

confinement Usage Examples

Converse of object

include: Thus liberation and escape are core values of the culture, including liberation form confinement, cars, offices, schedules, relationships.

Converse of subject

punish: Hardly suitable for these vulnerable people who feel they are being punished by this confinement, on top of their other problems.

Adjective modifier

  • solitary: He had remained in solitary confinement in jail for a year.
  • strict: He had been brought up in pretty strict confinement in Stirling Castle.
  • temporary: During the incident, approved control techniques were used to move one detainee to temporary confinement.
  • close: I was too young then to be kept in such close confinement.
  • permanent: Permanent confinement to says the family threatening to create.
  • separate: This expansion had been made possible by the 1930 Prison Rules which had abolished separate confinement.

Modifies a noun

  • fusion: Culham Science Center is now the premier UK center for magnetic confinement fusion research, concentrating on the tokamak line of machines.
  • device: In magnetic confinement devices, this outward pressure is counterbalanced by magnetic forces.

Noun used with modifier

  • quantum: In addition we find that image states are also subject to quantum confinement.
  • plasma: Information provided covers: the nuclear fusion reaction, plasma confinement, conditions for a fusion reaction, and heating of plasma.
  • hospital: I am not prepared to accept hospital confinement solely on the basis of being under 38 weeks ' gestation.
  • home: Is there a legal right to a home confinement?

Preposition: in

  • cage: For up to 20 years the macaques had lived in solitary confinement in small cages.
  • prison: Mr Irving faces spending the Yule season in solitary confinement in a foreign prison.
  • cell: This is good news however six children remain in custody, held in solitary confinement in underground cells in the military base.

Preposition: of

  • prisoner: The boro prison is a small edifice for the temporary confinement of prisoners, who are subsequently sent to Lancaster castle.
  • animal: Zoo Check believes that the confinement of wild animals for human entertainment should be a thing of the past.

Preposition: for

month: Ali was held in solitary confinement for 4 months.