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Definition: DETAINING |
DETAININGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Detain |
Date "DETAINING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Crosswords: DETAINING |
| English words defined with "DETAINING": False imprisonment. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "DETAINING": riffle bars ♦ tenacity. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | I hope I am not detaining you. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Spain | The ombudsman has challenged before the Constitutional Court the legality of detaining applicants at the border. (references) |
Yemen | Some security officials attempt to influence press coverage by threatening, harassing, and detaining journalists. (references) | |
China | Police often used excessive force when detaining peaceful FLG protesters, including some who were elderly or who were accompanied by small children. (references) | |
Economic History | Burma | The government also periodically intervenes in the foreign exchange market by detaining currency brokers to prop up the Burmese kyat. (references) |
Human Rights | Congo | There were reports that these forces repeatedly failed to acknowledge detaining persons. (references) |
Barbados | After 24 hours, the detaining authority must submit a written report to the Deputy Commissioner. (references) | |
Political Economy | Western Sahara | An attorney for the youths also alleged that the judicial police investigating the affair committed several illegal acts by unlawfully entering homes of the accused and detaining them, torturing them during their detention, and forcing them under duress to sign police reports, which they were not allowed to read and which contained falsehoods. (references) |
Congo | Although a large number of private newspapers published criticism of the Government, the Government continued to restrict freedom of speech and of the press by harassing, arresting, and detaining newspaper editors and journalists, and by seizing individual issues of publications; however, the Government reduced its restrictions on private radio broadcasting. (references) | |
Travel | Mexico | Contracts and other business agreements entered into while an American visitor to Mexico is traveling on tourist rather than business status are not legal, and there have been rare instances of immigration authorities detaining visitors doing business while on tourist status, resulting in fines up to US$2,000. Immigration officials also have the authority to bar such travelers from obtaining visas in the future. (references) |
Women | Honduras | This law allows the Government to protect battered women through emergency measures, such as detaining an aggressor or separating him temporarily from the victim's home. (references) |
Eritrea | When the Government began detaining and returning Ethiopians to Ethiopia in 2000, authorities singled out young Ethiopian women, particularly prostitutes, barmaids, and waitresses, for detention and involuntary deportation; reportedly this was due, in part, to the fear that these women spread HIV/AIDS. (references) | |
Worker Rights | China | With some reported exceptions, authorities generally responded with minimal force and refrained from detaining large numbers of participants. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | TENACITY, n. A certain quality of the human hand in its relation to the coin of the realm. It attains its highest development in the hand of authority and is considered a serviceable equipment for a career in politics. The following illustrative lines were written of a Californian gentleman in high political preferment, who has passed to his accounting: Of such tenacity his grip That nothing from his hand can slip. Well-buttered eels you may o'erwhelm In tubs of liquid slippery-elm In vain -- from his detaining pinch They cannot struggle half an inch! 'Tis lucky that he so is planned That breath he draws not with his hand, For if he did, so great his greed He'd draw his last with eager speed. Nay, that were well, you say. Not so He'd draw but never let it go! |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "DETAINING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DETAINING" is used about 24 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 (-ing form) | 100% | 24 | 71,196 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "DETAINING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 扣留 (Detain). (various references) | |
French | détenant. (various references) | |
German | hindernd (hampering, handicapping, impeding), abhaltend (detainig). (various references) | |
Korean | 억류. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | etainingday.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "DETAINING" (pronounced dutā"ning) |
| 6 | -u t ā" n i ng | attaining, retaining. |
| 5 | -t ā" n i ng | abstaining, ascertaining, containing, entertaining, maintaining, obtaining, pertaining, staining, sustaining. |
| 4 | -ā" n i ng | campaigning, caning, chaining, complaining, constraining, disdaining, draining, explaining, feigning, gaining, ordaining, overtraining, raining, refraining, regaining, reigning, reining, remaining, restraining, retraining, straining, training, waning. |
| 3 | -n i ng | apportioning, abandoning, adjoining, adjourning, aligning, assigning, auctioning, auditioning, awakening, awning, ballooning, banning, bargaining, battening, beckoning, beginning, bemoaning, binning, blackening, bludgeoning, boning, branning, brightening, brining, broadening, Browning, burdening, burgeoning, burning, Canning, captioning, careening, cartooning, cautioning, championing, chaperoning, cheapening, christening, churning, cleaning, cloning, clowning, coarsening, cocooning, coining, combining, commissioning, concerning, conditioning, condoning, confining, conning, convening, Corning, couponing, crooning, crowning, cunning, cushioning, dampening, darkening, dawning, deadening, deafening, declining, decommissioning, deepening, defining, demeaning, Denning, designing, determining, dining, Dinning, discerning, disciplining, disheartening, disillusioning, divining, donning, Downing, droning, drowning, Dunning, Durning, earning, enjoining, enlightening, envisioning, evening, examining, fanning, fashioning, fastening, fattening, fawning, fining, finning, flattening, freshening, frightening, frowning, functioning, gardening, ginning, glistening, governing, greening, grinning, groaning, gunning, happening, hardening, hastening, headlining, heartening, heightening, honing, Horning, housecleaning, imagining, imprisoning, impugning, inning, intertwining, intervening, intoning, ironing, jawboning, jettisoning, joining, Kenning, leaning, learning, leavening, lengthening, lessening, lightening, lightning, likening, lining, listening, loaning, loosening, machining, maddening, malfunctioning, Manning, margining, meaning, mentioning, midmorning, mining, moaning, morning, motioning, mourning, opening, opining, orphaning, outlining, overrunning, overturning, owning, panning, pardoning, partitioning, penning, petitioning, phoning, pining, pinning, planning, poisoning, positioning, postponing, preening, preplanning, provisioning, pruning, quarantining, questioning, quickening, rationing, realigning, reasoning, reassigning, reawakening, reckoning, reclining, reconditioning, redefining, redesigning, redlining, reexamining, refining, rejoining, relearning, reopening, repositioning, rerunning, resigning, returning, rezoning, ripening, ruining, running, saddening, sanctioning, scanning, screening, seasoning, sectioning, sharpening, shining, shortening, shunning, sickening, signing, sinning, siphoning, slackening, softening, spanning, spawning, spinning, spurning, stationing, stiffening, stoning, straightening, streamlining, strengthening, stunning, summoning, sunning, sweetening, swooning, tanning, telephoning, thickening, thinning, threatening, tightening, toning, toughening, tuning, turning, twining, underlining, undermining, underpinning, unquestioning, unreasoning, vacationing, Vining, warning, weakening, weaning, whining, whitening, widening, wining, winning, worsening, yawning, yearning, zoning. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-i-i-n-n-t" | |
-1 letter: enditing, ideating, indigent. | |
-2 letters: anteing, antigen, deaning, denting, dieting, dinting, editing, gentian, ignited, indigen, inedita, tending. | |
-3 letters: aiding, anting, dating, dentin, detain, dieing, dining, eating, ending, gained, gaited, gannet, ginned, ignite, indent, indign, indite, ingate, innate, intend, intine, nidget, niding, tanged, tanned, tiding, tieing, tineid, tinged, tining, tinned. | |
-4 letters: agent, anent, anted, deign, digit. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-g-i-i-n-n-t" | |
+1 letter: datelining, depainting, destaining, detraining. | |
+2 letters: deaminating, delineating, denigrating, denigration, designating, designation, invaginated, undeviating. | |
+3 letters: antispending, delaminating, denigrations, denominating, deracinating, desalinating, designations, disentailing, guanethidine, intergrading, interlarding, nonirrigated. | |
+4 letters: administering, animadverting, credentialing, defibrinating, demagnetizing, demyelinating, disenchanting, disentangling, disheartening, disseminating, guanethidines, interpleading, masterminding, predominating, underpainting, undeviatingly. | |
+5 letters: counterraiding, credentialling, decaffeinating, decentralizing, dechlorinating, denaturalizing, depigmentation, disenthralling, disintegrating, disintegration, disorientating, indigenization, intergradation, intermediating, predesignating, predestinating, redintegrating, redintegration, subinfeudating, underpaintings, xenodiagnostic. | |
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