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Definition: DETAINED |
DETAINEDImperative & past participle1. Of Detain |
Date "DETAINED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Crosswords: DETAINED |
| English words defined with "DETAINED": abducted ♦ calypso, Circe ♦ Detinue ♦ Fully committed ♦ guardhouse ♦ kidnaped, kidnapped ♦ Replevin, Replevy ♦ writ of detinue. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "DETAINED": assistance to prisoners ♦ Bronchitis ♦ compulsory patient, correction officer ♦ dog warden ♦ Fair Havens ♦ Galatia ♦ Hair, Hairs ♦ POLICE OFFICER II ♦ services for prisoners, supervisor, education and custody. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Detained (1924) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Tied up at Calais, France, where she was detained from 1863 to the end of the Civil War. Credit: NAVY. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Magna Carta | 1215 | And if such are found in our land at the beginning of the war, they shall be detained, without injury to their bodies or goods, until information be received by us, or by our chief justiciar, how the merchants of our land found in the land at war with us are treated; and if our men are safe there, the others shall be safe in our land. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Prisoners of war and interned civilians who are awaiting disposal or undergoing sentence for offences other than those against discipline may be detained. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | It sought to free itself, but he was strong in his entreaty, and detained it. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Thenardier, described as an assassin, and detained under the charge of lying in wait by night with force and arms, was kept constantly in sight |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The boy's family was also detained. (references) | |
The other co-author of the letter, Shen Liangqing was briefly detained. (references) | ||
Between August and September, the ICRC visited 108 people detained in 22 prisons. (references) | ||
Children | Cameroon | Some children (particularly infants) are jailed with their detained mothers. (references) |
Uganda | The UPDF at times detained LRA child soldiers at Gulu military barracks for a few weeks or months. (references) | |
Greece | Street children were arrested and detained regularly by police prior to being placed in these programs. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Cuba | Leyva's wife also was detained briefly. (references) |
Chile | Between 20 and 60 persons were detained. (references) | |
Cuba | Dozens of reporters were detained repeatedly. (references) | |
Economic History | Zambia | A young man detained with the group was beaten while in police custody. (references) |
Poland | Virtually all Solidarity leaders and many affiliated intellectuals were arrested or detained. (references) | |
Georgia | In the fall of 2000, four former energy officials were detained and charged with mishandling state funds. (references) | |
Human Rights | Tanzania | They were detained and then released. (references) |
Bangladesh | Men and women are detained separately. (references) | |
Yugoslavia | The civilians were detained for 45 days. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Guatemala | In June four persons were detained in El Estor as suspects in a homicide case. (references) |
Mexico | Six persons were detained in connection with the May 1999 attack on indigenous rights leader Heriberto Pazos Ortiz in Oaxaca; two persons were released by "amparo," and four remained in custody at year's end. (references) | |
Minorities | China | Many Uighurs have been detained for listening to RFA. (references) |
Political Economy | Sudan | She was detained briefly and then released. (references) |
Albania | Police on at least one occasion beat and detained journalists. (references) | |
Sudan | Taban reportedly was arrested or detained five times during the year. (references) | |
Political Rights | Comoros | This coup was suppressed, and the leaders of the coup were detained. (references) |
Azerbaijan | Individual candidates were harassed, and some were beaten up or detained. (references) | |
Ethiopia | The NEB also called for the unconditional release of those detained for their affiliation with the SEPDC. (references) | |
Trade | Colombia | Shipments have been detained indefinitely by Colombian Customs because of improper tariff schedule classification, use of an improper address, or typing errors. (references) |
Travel | Sri Lanka | Non Sri-Lankan citizens of Tamil heritage have occasionally been detained during security operations. (references) |
Burma | Americans have been detained, arrested, tried and deported for distributing pro-democracy literature, photographing sites and activities, and visiting Burmese pro-democracy leaders. (references) | |
Women | Afghanistan | The women were detained for 2 days. (references) |
Equatorial Guinea | A 2000 study by CNDH found that as many as 20 persons were detained solely for failure to repay dowries. (references) | |
Paraguay | Most imprisoned women reportedly were detained for assault, including murder, committed following domestic violence. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Dominican Republic | Trafficking victims detained generally are deported. (references) |
Burma | Thirty workers were detained, many for up to 3 months. (references) | |
China | He was detained after illegally entering China from Nepal. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "DETAINED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 75.27% of the time. "DETAINED" is used about 565 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 75.27% | 426 | 13,430 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 19.08% | 108 | 31,306 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 5.3% | 30 | 63,341 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.35% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 565 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "DETAINED": be detained. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
detained | 11 |
arrest arrested cuffed detained handcuffed | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "DETAINED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | agterbly (be detained, be kept in, remain, stay, stay on). (various references) | |
Albanian | i vonuar (behindhand, belated, blunt, delayed, dilatory, late, latecomer, outstanding, overdue, slow, tardy), i ndaluar (blocked, contraband, fixed, forbidden, illegal, illicit, impermissible, prohibited, stayed, tabu, unallowed, unlawful, unstatutable, unwarranted), i arrestuar (detainee, detenu, prisoner, remand). (various references) | |
Arabic | محتجز (retaining), معتقل (arrested, internee, prisoner). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | задържан, арестуван (under arrest). (various references) | |
Chinese | 扣留 (Detain). (various references) | |
Czech | zadržený. (various references) | |
Danish | tilbageholdt koed (detained meat). (various references) | |
Dutch | tot nadere keuring aangehouden vlees (detained meat), nablýven (be detained, be kept in, remain, stay on), achterblýven (be detained, be kept in, remain, stay on). (various references) | |
Esperanto | postresti (be detained, be kept in, remain, stay on). (various references) | |
French | détinrent, détenues, détenue, détenu (detainee), détînmes, emprisonné (detainee). (various references) | |
Frisian | benefterbliuwe (be detained, be kept in, remain, stay on). (various references) | |
German | hinderte (hampered, stymied), abgehalten (kept from). (various references) | |
Greek | κρατούμενοσ (prisoner). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מעוכב (delayed, handicapped, stopped), עצור (consonant, forbidden, halt, imprisoned, repressed, restrained, shut in, whoa), נעצר (arrested, stopped). (various references) | |
Hungarian | visszatartott (pent, restrained), bezárt (pent, pent-up). (various references) | |
Italian | resti dietro (remain), carne trattenuta in osservazione (detained meat, retained meat). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 手間を取る (to be detained, to take time). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | てまをとる (to be detained, to take time). (various references) | |
Korean | 억류하는. (various references) | |
Manx | pryssoonit, lhiettit (inhibited, stayed, vetoed), cumrit (deterred, hindered). (various references) | |
Papiamen | resta (be detained, be kept in, remain, stay on). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | etainedday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | carne suspeita (detained meat). (various references) | |
Russian | задержанный (detainee), задерживаемый. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zadržan (stopped, weather bound), uhapšen (arrest: under arrest, imprisoned). (various references) | |
Spanish | detenido (prisoner), retenido (hold). (various references) | |
Swedish | uppehålla (delay, sustain). (various references) | |
Turkmen | eglenmek (be delayed). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | утримуваний, утриманий, затримуваний, затриманий (back, checked, delayed, detainee). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | 1 Samuel Chapter 21, Verse 7 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai edwken autw abimelec o iereuV touV artouV thV proqesewV oti ouk hn ekei artoV oti all' h artoi tou proswpou oi afhrhmenoi ek proswpou kuriou parateqhnai arton qermon h hmera elaben autouV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Erat autem ibi vir de servis Saul in die illa intus in tabernaculo Domini et nomen eius Doec Idumeus potentissimus pastorum Saul |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Forsothe there was ther a maner man of the seruauntis of Saul in that day with ynne in the tabernacle of the Lord; this fedde the mulis of Saul; and the name of hym Doech Ydume, moost myyti of the sheepherdis of Saul. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the LORD; and his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the chiefest of the herdmen that belonged to Saul. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the LORD; and his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the chief of the herdmen that belonged to Saul. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, kept back before the Lord; his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the strongest of Saul's runners. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | 1 Samuel Chapter 21, Verse 7 |
| Cebuano | Karon may usa ka tawo sa mga sulogoon ni Saul didto niadtong adlawa, nga gihawiran sa atubangan ni Jehova; ug ang iyang ngalan mao si Doeg, ang Edomhanon, ang labing gamhanan sa tanang mga magbalantay sa panon nga iya si Saul. |
| Croatian | Tada mu sveæenik dade svetoga kruha, jer nije bilo drugoga kruha ondje osim žrtvenoga, onoga koji se uklanjao ispred Jahve da se zamijeni toplim kruhom u dan kad se uzima. |
| Danish | Men den Dag var en Mand af Sauls Folk lukket inde der for HERRENs Åsyn, en Edomit ved Navn Doeg, den øverste af Sauls Hyrder. |
| Dutch | Daar was nu een man van de knechten van Saul, te dienzelven dage opgehouden voor het aangezicht des HEEREN, en zijn naam was Doeg, een Edomiet, de machtigste onder de herderen, die Saul had. |
| Finnish | Mutta siellä oli sinä päivänä eristettynä Herran edessä eräs Saulin palvelija, nimeltä Dooeg, edomilainen, Saulin paimenten päämies. |
| French | Là, ce même jour, un homme d`entre les serviteurs de Saül se trouvait enfermé devant l`Éternel; c`était un Édomite, nommé Doëg, chef des bergers de Saül. |
| German | Es war aber des Tages ein Mann drinnen versperrt vor dem HERRN aus den Knechten Sauls, mit Namen Doeg, ein Edomiter, der mächtigste unter den Hirten Sauls. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Hata, maka pada hari itu juga adalah di sana seorang dari pada segala hamba Saul tengah berbuat ibadat di hadapan hadirat Tuhan, maka namanya Dowej, seorang orang Edom, yaitu penghulu segala gembala Saul. |
| Italian | Il sacerdote gli diede il pane sacro, perché non c'era là altro pane che quello dell'offerta, ritirato dalla presenza del Signore, per essere sostituito con pane fresco nel giorno in cui si toglie. |
| Korean | 그 날 에 사 울 의 신 하 한 사 람 이 여 호 와 앞 에 머 물 러 있 었 는 데 그 는 도 엑 이 라 이 름 하 는 에 돔 사 람 이 요 사 울 의 목 자 장 이 었 더 라 |
| Maori | Na, i reira tetahi o nga tangata a Haora i taua ra, e whakawarea ana ki te aroaro o Ihowa, ko tona ingoa ko Roeke Eromi, ko te mea tino nui o nga kaitiaki hipi a Haora. |
| Norwegian | Men den dag var det en av Sauls tjenere som holdt sig inne der for Herrens åsyn; han hette Doeg og var fra Edom; han var den øverste av Sauls hyrder. |
| Portuguese | Ora, achava-se ali naquele dia um dos servos de Saul, detido perante o Senhor; e era seu nome Doegue, edomeu, chefe dos pastores de Saul. |
| Rumanian | Chiar kn ziua aceea, se afla acolo knchis knaintea Domnului un om dintre slujitorii lui Saul; era un Edomit, numit Doeg, cqpetenia pqstorilor lui Saul. |
| Spanish | Aquel día estaba presente allí, detenido delante de Jehovah, uno de los servidores de Saúl, cuyo nombre era Doeg el edomita, el principal de los pastores de Saúl. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Misspellings | |
"DETAINED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cetoniid, Debaene, Decaisnea, Demaine, detane, deteyned. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "DETAINED" (pronounced dutā"nd) |
| 5 | -u t ā" n d | attained, retained. |
| 4 | -t ā" n d | abstained, ascertained, contained, entertained, maintained, obtained, pertained, stained, sustained, unstained. |
| 3 | -ā" n d | arraigned, brained, campaigned, caned, chained, complained, constrained, craned, disdained, drained, explained, feigned, gained, grained, ingrained, maned, ordained, pained, planed, preordained, rained, refrained, regained, reigned, reined, remained, restrained, retrained, sprained, strained, trained, unconstrained, unexplained, unrestrained, untrained, waned. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-e-i-n-t" | |
-1 letter: endited, ideated. | |
-2 letters: aedine, anteed, deaden, deaned, denied, dented, detain, dieted, dinted, edited, endite, ideate, indeed, tended, teniae. | |
-3 letters: aided, anted, dated, diene, dined, eaten, enate, ended, entia, nided, teind, tenia, tided, tinea, tined. | |
-4 letters: adit, aide, ante, anti, date, dead, dean, deed, deet, dene, deni, dent, died, diet, dine, dint, dita, dite, edit. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-e-i-n-t" | |
+1 letter: datelined, depainted, destained, detrained. | |
+2 letters: deaminated, delineated, denigrated, designated, unmediated, unsteadied. | |
+3 letters: delaminated, denominated, depredating, depredation, deracinated, desalinated, disentailed, intergraded, interlarded, kindhearted, undedicated, unmedicated. | |
+4 letters: absentminded, administered, animadverted, credentialed, defibrinated, demagnetized, denticulated, depredations, desiderating, desideration, detailedness, disenchanted, disentangled, disheartened, disseminated, interpleaded, masterminded, postdeadline, predominated, rededicating, rededication, unaccredited, unadvertised, undefoliated, undesignated. | |
+5 letters: candlelighted, counterraided, credentialled, decaffeinated, decentralized, dechlorinated, denaturalized, dependability, desiderations, disenthralled, disintegrated, disorientated, endopeptidase, intermediated, kindheartedly, nonaccredited, predesignated, predestinated, rededications, redintegrated, subinfeudated, underinflated. | |
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