jail 
jail (jāl)
noun
- a building for the confinement of people who are awaiting trial or who have been convicted of minor offenses
- imprisonment
Etymology: ME jaile, gaile < OFr jaole, gaole, a cage, prison < LL caveola, dim. of L cavea, cage
transitive verb
to put or keep in or as in jail
jail
n.
Some well-known jails and prison camps include: Sing Sing, Devils' Island, Attica, San Quentin, Leavenworth, Alcatraz or the Rock*, Dartmoor or the Moor*, Newgate, Bridewell, Tower of London, Fleet, Marshalsea, Wormwood Scrubs, Holloway, Dannemora, Broadmoor, the Bastille, Belsen, Botany Bay, Andaman Islands.
jail
v.
Antonyms
n
Object
- killer: BBC News, ' Vampire ' killer jailed for life.
Converse of object
- overcrowd: But going into police cells was necessary in some parts of the country as overcrowded jails reached breaking point.
- spare: Under-age sex youth spared jail A teenager who had sex with an 11-year-old girl has been put on probation for three years.
- escape: Racist attacker after September 11 escapes 01-05-2002 A MAN who went on a racist wrecking spree just days after September 11 has escaped jail.
- face: In his country workers face jail for being a member of a union!
Adjective modifier
- Texan: It is anticipated they are likely to spend two years in a Texan jail, awaiting trial.
- Pakistani: Pakistan on its part denies their presence in any Pakistani jail.
- Turkish: One Kurdish girl had been tortured before in a Turkish jail.
Modifies a noun
- sentence: A six-year jail sentence was imposed in June 2003.
- breakoutstwin: Had no problem museum and the jail breakoutstwin cities.
- term: Short jail terms are more likely to deter first time offenders than 40 hours community service.
- cell: Hung himself in a jail cell a couple weeks ago.
Noun used with modifier
- county: Spent more than onto the floor the county jail.
Preposition: for
- perjury: The software has already led to one motorist being jailed for perjury.
- murder: Brett Clifton, 22, of Faversham, Kent, has been jailed for the murders of elderly couple Terry and Vera Martin.
- month: Her mother, Maria Brown, was jailed for 18 months for child cruelty.
- robbery: Kate ( not her real name ) served 15 months in jail for street robbery.
- offense: He was jailed for drug offenses in October 1967.
- assault: An Elmbridge man has been jailed for assault following his sentencing at crown court last week.
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned A man in a jail has moreroom, better food, and commonly bettercompany.
As long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little differencewhether youare committedtoa farm or the county jail.
Presently I shall be introduced as 'this venerable old gentleman'and the axe will fall when they raise meto the degreeof 'grandoldman'.Thatmeansonourcontinentany onewithsnow-whitehair whohaskeptoutof jailtill eighty.
Yet hope not life from grief or danger free, Nor think the doom of man reversed for thee: Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron and the jail.
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