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I have a nice little office, with a nice little window in it, but I do basically spend huge amounts of time in what you could consider solitary confinement.
Mary Roach

Meaning of "confinement" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CONFINEMENT

confinement  [kənˈfaɪnmənt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CONFINEMENT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Confinement is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CONFINEMENT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of confinement in the English dictionary

The definition of confinement in the dictionary is the act of confining or the state of being confined. Other definition of confinement is the period from the onset of labour to the birth of a child.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CONFINEMENT


alignment
əˈlaɪnmənt
alinement
əˈlaɪnmənt
assignment
əˈsaɪnmənt
consignment
kənˈsaɪnmənt
definement
dɪˈfaɪnmənt
designment
dɪˈzaɪnmənt
dessignment
dɪˈzaɪnmənt
enshrinement
ɪnˈʃraɪnmənt
entertainment
ˌɛntəˈteɪnmənt
entwinement
ɪnˈtwaɪnmənt
intertwinement
ˌɪntəˈtwaɪnmənt
malignment
məˈlaɪnmənt
misalignment
mɪsəˈlaɪnmənt
nonalignment
ˌnɒnəˈlaɪnmənt
overrefinement
ˌəʊvərɪˈfaɪnmənt
realignment
ˌriːəˈlaɪnmənt
reassignment
ˌriːəˈsaɪnmənt
refinement
rɪˈfaɪnmənt
repinement
rɪˈpaɪnmənt
resignment
rɪˈzaɪnmənt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CONFINEMENT

configurative
configurator
configure
confinable
confine
confineable
confined
confinedly
confinedness
confineless
confiner
confines
confirm
confirmability
confirmable
confirmand
confirmation
confirmational
confirmative
confirmator

WORDS THAT END LIKE CONFINEMENT

advertisement
agreement
announcement
apartment
arrangement
basement
element
enforcement
engagement
implement
improvement
infringement
management
measurement
movement
placement
replacement
requirement
retirement
statement
supplement

Synonyms and antonyms of confinement in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «CONFINEMENT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «confinement» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of confinement

Translation of «confinement» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CONFINEMENT

Find out the translation of confinement to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of confinement from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «confinement» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

关押
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

reclusión
570 millions of speakers

English

confinement
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कारावास
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الحبس
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

заключение
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

reclusão
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কারাবাস
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

détention
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pengasingan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Haft
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

監禁状態
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

감금
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Prasangka
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sự giam cầm
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சிறைவாசம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कैद
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kapatılma
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

reclusione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

poród
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

висновок
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

naștere
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

τοκετό
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

bevalling
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

förlossning
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

sperring
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of confinement

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CONFINEMENT»

The term «confinement» is quite widely used and occupies the 27.172 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CONFINEMENT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «confinement» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «confinement» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about confinement

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10 QUOTES WITH «CONFINEMENT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word confinement.
1
Nellie Bly
All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one's mind. After several months' confinement the thoughts of the busy world grow faint, and all the poor prisoners can do is to sit and ponder over their hopeless fate.
2
W. L. George
Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.
3
Tippi Hedren
Animal abuse is rampant in the U.S., right under everyone's eyes, for the entertainment of the public. The brutal confinement and pain of training methods of wild animals in the circus, the aquatic and theatrical shows, leads to retaliation by the animals. Eventually they find the right time to strike out, and they will.
4
Billie Holiday
In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it's the worst kind of hell for those who love you.
5
Frederica Mathewes-Green
Temptation coaxes us toward sin, and sin leads to sickness and death, and ultimately confinement in the realm of the evil one.
6
Thomas Mellon
It may seem a hard task to condemn fellow creatures to long years of confinement in prison, but it is not so hard if they clearly deserve it.
7
Geoff Mulgan
Many of the greatest composers and musicians do their best work in extreme confinement but we are seeing it in other fields - uses of technology to link people together in networks to solve problems and almost certainly we'll get better ideas than we would from them just doing it on their own.
8
Emmeline Pankhurst
Solitary confinement is too terrible a punishment to inflict on any human being, no matter what his crime. Hardened criminals in the men's prisons, it is said, often beg for the lash instead.
9
Mary Roach
I have a nice little office, with a nice little window in it, but I do basically spend huge amounts of time in what you could consider solitary confinement.
10
Robert Smithson
Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CONFINEMENT»

Discover the use of confinement in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to confinement and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Total Confinement: Madness and Reason in the Maximum ...
The inside look at supermax confinement alone is worth the price of admission, and the prose sometimes verges on poetry. This is meticulous scholarship."--Hans Toch, author of Living in Prison
Lorna Amarasingham Rhodes, 2004
2
Confinement (Book #1 in the Love and Madness series)
The focus of the story is Duffino, an attractive girl in her early 20s, sent to the mental hospital when she refuses to defend herself at trial for the highly publicized, gang-related murder of her boyfriend’s rival.
Gabriella Murray, 2010
3
Institutions of Confinement: Hospitals, Asylums, and Prisons ...
"A major interdisciplinary study of the development of hospitals, insane asylums, and prisons in North America and Western Europe, this book resulted from discussions between its two editors about their work on the history of hospitals, ...
Norbert Finzsch, Robert Jütte, 2003
4
The Confinement of the Insane: International Perspectives, ...
What was the role of families, communities and the medical profession in the confinement process? This volume therefore represents a landmark study in the history of psychiatry by examining asylum confinement in a global context.
Roy Porter, David Wright, 2003
5
An Introduction to the Confinement Problem
Addressing the confinement problem, this work deals with the behavior of non-abelian gauge theories, and the force which is mediated by gauge fields, at large distances.
Jeff Greensite, 2011
6
Supermax: Controlling Risk Through Solitary Confinement
This book examines the rise and proliferation of 'Supermaxes', large prisons dedicated to holding prisoners in prolonged and strict solitary confinement, in the United States since the late 1980s.
Sharon Shalev, 2013
7
An Introduction to Inertial Confinement Fusion
The reason for this is because, while there are many books devoted to special topics within the field, there is none that provides an overview of the field as a whole.
Susanne Pfalzner, 2006
8
Nuclear Fusion: Half a Century of Magnetic Confinement ...
The book features descriptive sections, in-depth explanations of certain physical and technical issues, scientific terms, and an extensive glossary that explains relevant abbreviations and acronyms.
C.M. Braams, P.E. Stott, 2002
9
Plasma Confinement
Graduate-level text examines the essential physics underlying international research in magnetic confinement fusion with accounts of fundamental concepts behind methods of confining plasma at or near thermonuclear conditions. 1992 edition.
R. D. Hazeltine, J. D. Meiss, 2003
10
Afterlives of Confinement
The social changes that did not occur, the inability to effectively mourn the losses of a now-hidden past, the homogenizing effects of market economies, and a yearning for the promises of true freedom are thematic currents underlying much ...
Susana Draper, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CONFINEMENT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term confinement is used in the context of the following news items.
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Column: Is solitary confinement cruel and unusual?
Uninvited, Kennedy seemed to set the table for an argument that solitary confinement, so widely used in the U.S., is cruel and unusual ... «Fredericksburg.com, Jul 15»
2
Photographs and Testimonies From Solitary Confinement, Pt. 2
These are jail stories from friends of mine that served time in solitary confinement. The main purpose for these stories is to share their personal ... «Brooklyn Reader, Jul 15»
3
Prisoner Wins £485000 Compensation Over Six-Day Erection While …
... a million pounds after his six-day erection was left untreated while he was locked up in solitary confinement. After winning the six-figure sum, ... «Yahoo News UK, Jul 15»
4
Assam Rifles officer held for confinement, rape
SHILLONG: Police have arrested an Assam Rifles officer for allegedly raping a woman for several weeks after confining her in a Government ... «The Shillong Times, Jul 15»
5
Mental-health service providers still rely on physical restraint …
Providers of mental-health services still rely on intervention techniques such as physical restraint and confinement to control some psychiatric ... «News-Medical.net, Jul 15»
6
China sets standards for confinement nannies amid booming …
Confinement nannies will now have to meet a set of standards, as the government tries to regulate the mainland's booming postnatal-care ... «South China Morning Post, Jul 15»
7
Irish Court Blocks Suspect's Extradition to U.S., Citing Risk of …
ireland high court An Irish court has blocked a U.S. extradition request because of the conditions of solitary confinement the accused could face ... «Solitary Watch, Jul 15»
8
David Sweat, Escaped Convict, Is Released From Hospital and …
If found guilty, he could be sentenced to solitary confinement and lose privileges like receiving packages, access to commissary, time on the ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
9
Editorial: Solitary Confinement Is Often an Injustice
“Violently insane,” the Supreme Court wrote in 1890 of prisoners who had experienced solitary confinement. “The edge of madness, perhaps ... «Valley News, Jul 15»
10
Inside Calif. juvenile hall, rare glimpse at solitary confinement cells
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. – Although solitary confinement for extended periods is considered one of the most psychologically damaging forms of punishment ... «Reveal, Jul 15»

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