Arrest vs Abrest - What's the difference?
arrest | abrest |
A check, stop, an act or instance of something.
The condition of being stopped, standstill.
(legal) The act of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.
A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.
A device to physically arrest motion.
(nautical) The judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators.
(obsolete) Any seizure by power, physical or otherwise.
* Jeremy Taylor
(farriery) A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse.
(obsolete) To stop the motion of (a person or animal).
* Philips
(obsolete) To stay, remain.
To stop (a process, course etc.).
* 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 707:
* 1997 : Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault , page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody.
* Shakespeare
To catch the attention of.
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As a noun arrest
is arrest, confinement, detention.As an adverb abrest is
.arrest
English
Noun
(en noun)- The sad stories of fire from heaven, the burning of his sheep, etc., were sad arrests to his troubled spirit.
- (White)
Derived terms
* arrest warrant * cardiac arrest * house arrestVerb
(en verb)- Nor could her virtues the relentless hand / Of Death arrest .
- (Spenser)
- To try to arrest the spiral of violence, I contacted Chief Buthelezi to arrange a meeting.
- Knowledge replaced universal resemblance with finite differences. History was arrested and turned into tables …Western reason had entered the age of judgement.
- The police have arrested a suspect in the murder inquiry.
- I arrest thee of high treason.
- There is something about this picture—something bold and vigorous, which arrests the attention. I feel sure it would be highly popular.
Derived terms
* arrester, arrestor * arrestment * arrestingAnagrams
* * * * ----abrest
English
Adverb
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citation, passage=… was designed to provide you with the information you need to keep abrest of current opportunities … }}
citation, genre= , publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt , isbn=9780395924983 , page= , passage=This day saw an appearance of a spacious harbour abrest the Ship, haul'd our wind … }}
citation, genre= , publisher=Review and Herald Pub Assoc , isbn=9780828018746 , page=316 , passage=He read the words scribbled under the star: "Stand abrest qurtsbolder bring in line with hill … " }}
citation, genre= , publisher= , isbn=9789380064147 , page=3.8 , passage=Keeping abrest of technological developments requires a careful assessment … }}
