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Definition: DETAINER |
DETAINERNoun1. A writ authorizing the keeper of a prison to continue to keep a person in custody. 2. The keeping possession of what belongs to another; detention of what is another's, even though the original taking may have been lawful. Forcible detainer is indictable at common law. 3. One who detains. |
Crosswords: DETAINER |
| English words defined with "DETAINER": Writ of detinue. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "DETAINER" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DETAINER" is used about 7 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "DETAINER": Forcible entry and detainer. 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. |
| Language | Translations for "DETAINER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Italian | detenzione (imprisonment, detention). (various references) | |
Manx | cumrailagh (a tedious person, hinderer, hindersome, loiterer). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | etainerday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | detentor (detent), embargo (seizure), custódia (charge, custody, keeping, safekeeping, safety, ward). (various references) | |
Romanian | detenţiune (confinement, detention, imprisonment, retention), reţinere a bunurilor sechestrate, mandat de depunere, arest (arrest, committal, custody, detention, imprisonment, pinch, prison). (various references) | |
Spanish | captador (detecting device, sensor). (various references) | |
Swedish | order (command, order, orders). (various references) | |
Turkish | tutukluluğun uzatılması, malını alıkoyma, gözetim altına alma. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | незаконне затримання майна. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "DETAINER": detainers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: retained. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-i-n-r-t" | |
-1 letter: antired, arenite, detrain, retinae, trained, trainee. | |
-2 letters: aedine, aeried, airted, anteed, ardent, dearie, denari, denier, derate, detain, dieter, earned, endear, endite, entera, entire, ideate, neared, neater, nereid, rained, ranted, ratine, redate, rediae, reedit, reined, rented, retain, retied, retina, retine, rident, teared, tender, teniae, tiered, tinder, tirade, triene, trined. | |
-3 letters: aerie, aider, aired, anted. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-i-n-r-t" | |
+1 letter: denigrate, detainers, detrained, entrained, gratineed, herniated, inearthed, intreated, irredenta, pertained, repainted, resinated, retrained, tailender. | |
+2 letters: adulterine, banistered, centigrade, credential, deaerating, deaeration, delineator, denigrated, denigrates, deracinate, derailment, dewatering, dishearten, endometria, federating, federation, germinated, hibernated, inbreathed, inebriated, ingathered, innervated, integrated, interacted, interfaced, intergrade, interlaced, interplead, irredentas, itinerated, orientated, pedantries, pedestrian, pretrained, reanimated, reanointed, reattained, reinflated, reinstated, reobtained, restrained, retreading, straitened, tailenders, terminated, unreadiest, unsteadier. | |
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