Jail

Definition: Jail

Jail

Noun

1. A correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence).

Verb

1. Lock up in jail.

Date "jail" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Domain	Definition
Dream Interpretation	To see others in jail, you will be urged to grant privileges to persons whom you believe to be unworthy. To see negroes in jail, denotes worries and loss through negligence of underlings. For a young woman to dream that her lover is in jail, she will be disappointed in his character, as he will prove a deceiver. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
Multilingual Slang	Hungarian (sitt ). (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Jail

Synonyms: clink (n), jailhouse (n), slammer (n), gaol (v), immure (v), imprison (v), incarcerate (v), jug (v), lag (v), put away (v), put behind bars (v), remand (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Bad Man	Culprit, delinquent, crook, hoodlum, hood, criminal, thug, malefactor, offender, perpetrator, perp; disorderly person, misdemeanant; outlaw; scofflaw; vandal; felon; convict, prisoner, inmate, jail bird, ticket of leave man; multiple offender.
Escape	Verb: escape, scape; make one's escape, effect one's escape, make good one's escape; break jail; get off, get clear off, get well out of; echapper belle, save one's bacon, save one's skin; weather the storm; (safe); escape scot-free.
Prison	Noun: prison, prison house; jail, gaol, cage, coop, den, cell; stronghold, fortress, keep, donjon, dungeon, Bastille, oubliette, bridewell, house of correction, hulks, tollbooth, panopticon, penitentiary, guardroom, lockup, hold; round house, watch house, station house, sponging house; station; house of detention, black hole, pen, fold, pound; inclosure; isolation (exclusion); penal settlement, penal colony; bilboes, stocks, limbo, quod; calaboose, chauki, choky, thana; workhouse.
Prisoner	Jail bird, ticket of leave man, chevronne.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	I'm gonna kick your ass and then I'll take your ass to jail. (Rush Hour; writing credit: Jim Kouf) You're going to jail, Bart (Toy Story; writing credit: John Lasseter; Andrew Stanton) Don't threaten me with jail, Blanche, because it's not a threat (The Odd Couple; writing credit: Neil Simon) Happy New Year to you in jail! (It's a Wonderful Life; writing credit: Philip Van Doren Stern; Frances Goodrich) Can I finish? Okay so we're taken to jail. The other kids' fathers bail them out, mine left me there for two days (Rain Man; writing credit: Ronald Bass)
Lyrics	Fresh outta jail (California Love; performing artist: 2 PAC) Hugg'en on my mama from a jail cell (Dear Mama; performing artist: 2Pac) So many levels jail take you (Life Story; performing artist: Black Rob) And your husbands in jail (What's My Age Again?; performing artist: Blink-182) I've got to formulate a plot or I end up in jail or shot (Lose Yourself; performing artist: EMINEM)
Movie/TV Titles	Jail (1966) The Jail Break (1946) Hold 'Em Jail (1942) Jail Hostess (1942) Here's to the Good Old Jail (1938)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Let's Talk About When Your Parent Is in Jail (The Let's Talk Library) (reference) My Mom Went to Jail (reference) Seize the Book, Jail the Author: Johann Lorenz Schmidt and Censorship in Eighteenth-Century Germany (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Ernest Goes to Jail (reference) Jackson County Jail (reference) Macon County Jail (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Jail [LIVE] (reference) Live in Cook County Jail [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] [LIVE] (reference) What Jail Is Like [EP] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	U.S. Army. General Hospital, Hilton Head, S.C. : Jail & Hospital for Prisoners of War. Credit: National Library of Medicine.		Leper Colony : Jail and Leper detention place, Cuba. Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	Joseph Cinquez, the brave Congolese Chief, who prefers death to slavery, and who now lies in jail . . . Credit: Library of Congress.		John Brown. Meeting the slave-mother and her child on the steps of Charlestown jail on his way to execution. Credit: Library of Congress.
	I guess you better fish or cut bait, Captain. Jail or home, which?. Credit: Library of Congress.		Maximum penalty for disregarding blackout -- $300 fine and 90 days in jail. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Chinese Nationalist Party poster showing hands of man holding red cloth out of jail window. Credit: Library of Congress.		Chinese criminals in the viceroy's yamen, now used as a jail, Tien-Tsin, China. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Old jail, Portsmouth, N.H. Credit: Library of Congress.		The Jail, Lowell, Mass. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Play	Caption
	Jail cell bars sliding and locking shut.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
John Donne	Be your own palace, or the world is your jail.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Author	Date	Quotation
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.	1963	With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1962)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	The jail being in a bad condition, the police justice thought it best to take him to Arras, where the prison of the department is.
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	No, he never went to jail for it.
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Copyright violators receive jail sentences and fines. (references)
		Li and Guo had already spent more than 3 years in jail without sentencing. (references)
		The former state interior department director Esteban Mendoza Ramos received 26-1/2 years in jail. (references)
Children	Switzerland	The mother's jail term was extended by another 3 months for abandonment and negligent homicide. (references)
	Senegal	In 1999 the Government passed a law mandating longer jail terms of up to 10 years for convicted pedophiles. (references)
	Dominican Republic	In practice, juveniles are detained in excess of the time permitted by law and then are sent to jail rather than referred for rehabilitative services. (references)
Civil Liberties	Croatia	In May Kutle was released from jail after 15 months of detention. (references)
	Chad	Sheikh Marouf was released from prison after nearly 1 year in jail. (references)
	Qatar	The law provides for criminal penalties and jail sentences for libel. (references)
Economic History	Morocco	Punishments range from fines to jail sentences. (references)
	Spain	Most of their members are either in jail or abroad. (references)
	Argentina	Violation of this law is considered a felony and is punishable with up to 6 years in jail. (references)
Human Rights	Mexico	Riot police then stormed the jail. (references)
	Bahamas	One of every 200 citizens is in jail. (references)
	El Salvador	The two remained in jail at year's end. (references)
Minorities	Yugoslavia	On February 2, unknown assailants beat a Roma boy, Cuci Nikolic, and put him in a makeshift jail. (references)
	Brazil	A 1997 amendment to this law added prohibitions against, and jail terms for, the incitement of racial discrimination or prejudice and the dissemination of racially offensive symbols and epithets. (references)
	Canada	In July a court convicted a man (who was associated with a group that aims to eliminate the use of English in Quebec) of the bombings and sentenced him to 6 months in jail for weapons' possession and 1 month for the firebombing. (references)
Political Economy	Cuba	Prisoners died in jail due to lack of medical care. (references)
	Ecuador	More than one half of the detainees in jail have not been sentenced formally. (references)
	Armenia	During the year, 40 Jehovah's Witnesses were released from jail by the June amnesty. (references)
Political Rights	Iran	He became the first Majles member to serve a jail sentence. (references)
	Turkey	Erdogan, who was convicted and served a 1999 jail term for violations of Penal Code Article 312 ("inciting religious enmity") is barred by the Constitution from being a Member of Parliament. (references)
	Turkey	Former HADEP Secretary General Ahmet Turan Demir served 35 days in jail in August and September for his convictions under the Anti-Terror Law of promoting separatism, for a speech he gave in October 1999. His pretrial detention counted towards his 4-month sentence. (references)
Travel	Nepal	Convicted offenders can expect jail sentences and fines. (references)
	Nepal	Visitors arrested for drug offenses can expect to wait in jail for weeks before their cases are concluded. (references)
	Senegal	Penalties for possession, use or trafficking in illegal drugs are strict and convicted offenders can expect jail sentences and fines. (references)
Women	Kuwait	Procurers often receive stiff jail terms. (references)
	Togo	Both were released after serving 2 months in jail. (references)
	Barbados	The courts can sentence an offender to jail for breaching such an order. (references)
Worker Rights	Denmark	They received jail sentences of between 1 and 3 years. (references)
	Pakistan	Verifying these reports is difficult because of limited outside access to the jail. (references)
	Kazakhstan	The criminal code provides punishment of up to 3 years in jail for illegal involvement in prostitution. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	UNDERSTANDING, n. A cerebral secretion that enables one having it to know a house from a horse by the roof on the house. Its nature and laws have been exhaustively expounded by Locke, who rode a house, and Kant, who lived in a horse. His understanding was so keen That all things which he'd felt, heard, seen, He could interpret without fail If he was in or out of jail. He wrote at Inspiration's call Deep disquisitions on them all, Then, pent at last in an asylum, Performed the service to compile 'em. So great a writer, all men swore, They never had not read before. Jorrock Wormley
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Angela Ricci	I think he was heartbroken, the day that they dug up our yard, he was on the phone with me. He was still in jail. And he said, Angela, this is so sad, they're wasting their time. They have the wrong guy, you know.
Bob Schieffer	Now, what happened when Oswald was shot, I was assigned to go to the City Hall where they were going to take him, from the county jail to the City Hall. And, so I was at the other place when Oswald was shot.
Cary Goldstein	Well, exactly. We believe that, you know, rather than have Earle sit and rot in the jail cell with lots of time to think about, do I really want to do this, maybe I'll just tell them what they need to know about Robert, they bailed him.
Rush Limbaugh	Even throwing people in jail won't maintain government limits on speech.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Jail" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 87.90% of the time. "Jail" is used about 1,214 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)	87.9%	1,067	7,034
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	11.93%	145	26,217
Lexical Verb (base form)	0.08%	1	339,140
Noun (proper)	0.08%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	1,214	N/A

Expressions using "jail": be in jail ♦ break jail ♦ clap smb. in jail ♦ get three years in jail ♦ go to jail ♦ jail bird ♦ jail cell ♦ jail delivery ♦ Jail delivery commission ♦ jail fever ♦ jail house ♦ Jail liberties ♦ Jail limits ♦ Jail lock ♦ putrid jail or hospital fever ♦ rot in jail ♦ throw into a jail ♦ throw smb. into jail ♦ To break jail. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "jail": jail-bait, jail-birds, jail-break, jail-breaker, jail-house, jail-like.
	Ending with "jail": Campbell-in-jail.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "jail"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		burgim (committal, confinement, Durance, duress, immurement, imprisonment, incarceration), burg (cage, calaboose, can, choky, clink, gaol, limbo, lockup, mill, Nick, pen, penitentiary, poky, prison, prison house, quod, stir). (various references)

Arabic		‏حبس (confine, confinement, constraint, crib, custody, duress, gaol, imprison, imprisonment, lockup, mewl, occlude, prison, sequester, sequestration, shut), ‏سجن (be imprisoned, can, clap, clink, confine, cooler, detain, detention, gaol, hatch, hock, immure, imprison, imprisonment, incarcerate, incarceration, intern, internment, jug, lock up, lockup, log cabin, mure, nick, penitentiary, pokey, prison, quod, send up, stir, throw), ‏عزل (cut off, depose, deposition, disengage, displacement, excommunicate, excommunication, gaol, insulate, isolate, isolation, recall, relegate, seclude, segregate, segregation, sequester, taboo). (various references)

Bulgarian		хвърлям в затвора (constrain, gaol, imprison), тъмница (dungeon, gaol), затвор (bastille, bondage, calaboose, can, choky, clink, confinement, duress, gaol, hold, jug, kitty, limbo, lock, lockup, mew, pen, penitentiary, pokey, pound, prison, prison house, quod, shop, shut off, shutter, shuttle, stockade, stopper), затварям (case, cicatrize, close, constrain, douse, enclose, gaol, hem, house, immure, imprison, incarcerate, latch, lock, lock up, mew, obturate, pen, prison, pull to, restrain, screw up, seal off, shut, shut away, shut in, shut up, stop, turn off). (various references)

Chinese		豻 , 犴 (chapped, cracked), 班房 , 監 (firm, hard, prison, solid, strong, supervisor, to inspect, to supervise), 监狱 (jailhouse, Prison). (various references)

Czech		vìznice (gaol), vìzení (confinement, gaol, lockup, pound, prison, prison house, retention, round house, roundhouse), uvìznit (confine, gaol, immure, imprison, incarcerate), kriminál (clink, gaol, Nick), žalář (dungeon, gaol, prison). (various references)

Danish		fængsel (gaol, prison). (various references)

Dutch		kerker (cell, gaol, prison), gevangenis (gaol, prison). (various references)

Esperanto		prizono (gaol, prison), malliberulejo (gaol, prison), malliberigi (imprison), malliberejo (gaol, prison). (various references)

Farsi		محبس (Calaboose, Dungeon, Gaol, Prison), حبس کردن (Grate, Incarcerate, Mew), حبس (Bail, Calaboose, Custody, Durante, Imprisonment, Lockup, Prison), زندان (Calaboose, Coop, Dungeon, Gaol, Grate, Presidio, Prison). (various references)

Finnish		vankila (joutua, nick, prison). (various references)

French		prison, geôle. (various references)

German		gefängnis (gaol, imprisonment, jail house, jailhouse, penitentiary, prison), Kerker (dungeon, dungeons, gaol, imprisonment, oubliette, prison), einsperren (bolt in, box up, caging, close up, confine, confinement, corral, impound, imprison, lock away, lock in, lock up, Nick, pen, pen in, pen up, put away, put inside, shut in, shut up, to corral, to lock up). (various references)

Greek		φυλακή (bagnio, brig, calaboose, clink, cooler, coop, gaol, hock, hoosegow, jail house, jug, prison, quod, stir). (various references)

Hebrew		לכלוא (corral, immure, imprison, incarcerate, lock up, put away, shut in), כלא (confinement, penitentiary, prison), בית כלא (penitentiary, prison), בית סוהר (prison), בית סהר (prison), צינוק (confinement, dungeon, lock up, oubliette, prison cell, solitary confinement). (various references)

Hungarian		tömlöc (cells, gaol), fogház (detention house, gaol, prison), fogda (cells, clink, guard house, lockup, prison, station house), fegyház (big house, gaol, penitentiary, zoo), dutyi (booby-hatch, calaboose, cells, jailhouse, jug, lockup, nick, quad, quod, zoo), börtön (can, cells, confine, coop, gaol, hold, hoosegow, jailhouse, jug, limbo, lockup, penitentiary, prison, prison house, quad, quod, stir, stockade). (various references)

Indonesian		penjara (brig, dungeon, prison, quod), membui (lock up), bui (prison). (various references)

Italian		prigione (bastille, calaboose, clink, coop, dungeon, gaol, imprisonment, prison, quod), carcere (can, gaol, oubliette, penitentiary, prison), incarcerare (gaol, imprison, incarcerate). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		鉄窓 (iron or steel-grilledwindow), 牢獄 (prison), 牢屋 (gaol), 人屋 (prison), 刑獄 (punishment). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ひとや (all night, one evening, one night, overnight, prison), ろうごく (prison), ろうや (gaol, old man, one's boss, one's father), けいごく (punishment), てっそう (iron or steel-grilledwindow). (various references)

Korean		감옥. (various references)

Manx		pryssoon (brig, gaol, glasshouse, lock up, penitentiary, prison), cur ayns pryssoon (gaol, imprison, incarcerate, intern), carchyr (imprisonment). (various references)

Norwegian		fengsle (captivate, grip, imprison), fengsel (gaol, prison). (various references)

Pig Latin		ailjay.(various references)

Portuguese		prisão (accouchement, apprehension, arrest, bastille, bond, cage, captivity, choky, confinement, constrained, custody, detention, duress, entanglement, ewer, gaol, jug, limbo, noose, pokey, prison, quad, quod), cadeia (cage, calaboose, catena, chain, choky, clink, cufflink, ewer, fetter, gaol, jug, network, orlop, penitentiary, pokey, prison, prison house, quad, quod, shackle, stockade, ward), cárcere (calaboose, prison). (various references)

Romanian		temniţã (cage, gaol, keep, prison), întemniţa (gaol, hold, immure, imprison, incarcerate, jug, lag, lock up, pound, prison, secure). (various references)

Russian		тюрьма (bastille, bridewell, calaboose, gaol, jug, lockup, pit, pound, prison, prison house, quod, slammer, stone-jug). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zatvor (calaboose, choky, clink, confinement, cooler, coop, lockup, obstipation, prison, prison house, quod, stir, stockade). (various references)

Spanish		prisión (arrest, confinement, gaol, imprisonment, prison), cárcel (calaboose, can, clamp, clink, gaol, lock up, prison, prison house, quod). (various references)

Swedish		sitta i fängelse, fängelse (bagnio, calaboose, can, clink, gaol, hold, imprisonment, jailhouse, jug, limbo, Nick, pen, penitentiary, prison, prison house). (various references)

Thai		เรือนจำ, จำคุก (gaol). (various references)

Turkish		tutuklamak (apprehend, arrest, bust, imprison, Nick, pick up, pull in, rap, seize, take into custody, take smb. in charge), kodes (bull pen, cage, can, choky, clink, cooler, gaol, hole, jug, pen, prison, quod, stir), kafes (bird cage, cage, coop, grating, grill, grille, hutch, lath, lattice, mew, pen, trellis), hapsetmek (bar, cage, confine, detain, immure, imprison, incarcerate, intern, lock up, mew, mew up, mure, pen, pen in, pen up, restrain, shut in, shut up), hapishane (bull pen, cage, can, choky, clink, cooler, coop, gaol, institution, Nick, pen, penal institution, penitentiary, pound, prison, quod, roundhouse, shop, stir, stockade, tank, ward), hapis (charge, confinement, duress, gaol, imprisonment, prison), cezaevi (calaboose, penal institution, penitentiary, prison, quod, roundhouse, stockade). (various references)

Ukrainian		ув'язнювати (confine, constrain, dungeon, embar, gaol, immure, imprison, incarcerate, pound, prison, quod), ув'язнення (confinement, constraint, custody, duress, duresse, gaol, imprisonment, incarceration, ward), в'язниця (bandhouse, cage, calaboose, can, choky, clink, dump, gaol, limbo, penitentiary, pound, prison, quod, slammer, ward). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	carcer, carcere, carcerem, carceribus, carceris, carcerum, phylaca. (various references)
Dutch	700-Modern	hok. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "jail": jailbait, jailbird, jailbirds, jailbreak, jailbreaks, jailed, jailer, jailers, jailhouse, jailhouses, jailing, jailor, jailors, jails. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Jail" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ajai, Aji, ajia, ajil, jaal, jaap, jabi, jaci, jacl, jael, Jagielo, jagir, jahl, jaid, jaif, jaig, jaile, Jaim, jaio, jaip, jair, jait, jaix, jaiz, Jaji, jale, Jaleh, jali, jalk, jaly, jami, janil, Janl, jaoil, jaol, Jaonli, jari, jasic, Jasir, jauk, jault, jauz, jawi, jawl, jaxil, Jayl, Jazi, Jazia, Jeal, jei, jeli, jeol, jeul, Jhal, jia, jiad, jial, jiam, Jiamil, Jiao, jias, Jiaxi, Jii, jil, jila, jild, jilk, jiln, jilo, jilq, jiul, joal, joid, joil, joir, joiv, joli, jui, ju-i, juil, jul, ljacil, ljacll, yail. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "jail" (pronounced jā"l)
2	-ā" l	ail, ale, assail, avail, bail, bale, braille, Carrell, curtail, dale, derail, detail, entail, exhale, fail, flail, frail, gale, grail, hail, Hale, impale, stale, surveil, tail, tale, inhale, kail, kale, mail, maile, male, nail, pail, pale, prevail, quail, quale, rail, sail, sale, scale, shale, snail, trail, tramell, travail, unveil, Vail, Vale, veil, wail, Wale, whale.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-i-j-l"
	-1 letter: ail.
	-2 letters: ai, al, la, li.
	Words containing the letters "a-i-j-l"
	+1 letter: jails.
	+2 letters: jailed, jailer, jailor, jezail, jingal, jovial.
	+3 letters: jailers, jailing, jailors, jalapic, jalapin, javelin, jawlike, jawline, jazzily, jezails, jingall, jingals.
	+4 letters: cajoling, jadishly, jailbait, jailbird, jalapins, jalopies, jalousie, janglier, jangling, japingly, jauntily, javelina, javelins, jawlines, jazzlike, jingalls, joinable, jovially, jovialty, jubilant, jubilate, judicial, majolica, quillaja.
	+5 letters: jacklight, jailbirds, jailbreak, jailhouse, jaloppies, jalousies, jangliest, jarringly, javelinas, javelined, joviality, jubilance, jubilated, jubilates, juridical, juvenilia, majolicas, quillajas.
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Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
jail	1,276	county jail pierce roster	96
los angeles county jail	382	county jail mecklenburg	95
cook county jail	338	county fulton jail	92
county jail	293	jail inmate	90
orange county jail	278	cell jail	85
la county jail	249	county jail inmate	82
county jail mahoning	182	county jail pima	79
county jail maricopa	170	county dekalb jail	78
jail babe	156	jail madison street	77
county jail pierce	153	county jail marion	76
county fresno jail	150	jail cam	74
broward county jail	150	san diego jail	74
county hillsborough jail	142	jail bait	72
san diego county jail	136	county denton jail	72
oklahoma county jail	122	dallas county jail	70
county jail mccracken	108	florida jail	68
harris county jail	106	county jail umatilla	66
letter from the birmingham jail	105	county dade jail	63
county jail polk	100	washington county jail	61
county jail pinellas	99	county jail shelby	59
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.


"Old Historic Jail in downtown" by Mike Swope Commentary: "Old Historic Jail through peephole in door in downtown Mulvane, Kansas."	"Inside old jail house" by Kevin Blomqvist Commentary: "Inside the old jail house in karlskrona."
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

Jail

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Angela Ricci

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