Arrest vs Book - What's the difference?
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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.
* 1919 : :
A collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material, pictures, etc.
A long work fit for publication, typically prose, such as a novel or textbook, and typically published as such a bound collection of sheets.
A major division of a long work.
A record of betting (from the use of a notebook to record what each person has bet).
A convenient collection, in a form resembling a book, of small paper items for individual use.
The script of a musical.
(usually, in the plural) Records of the accounts of a business.
A long document stored (as data) that is or will become a book; an e-book.
(legal) A colloquial reference to a book award, a recognition for receiving the highest grade in a class (traditionally an actual book, but recently more likely a letter or certificate acknowledging the achievement).
(whist) Six tricks taken by one side.
(poker slang) four of a kindWeisenberg, Michael (2000) [http://www.poker1.com/mcu/pokerdictionary/mculib_dictionary_info.asp The Official Dictionary of Poker]. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523
(sports) A document, held by the referee, of the incidents happened in the game.
(sports, by extension) A list of all players who have been booked (received a warning) in a game.
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To reserve (something) for future use.
To write down, to register or record in a book or as in a book.
(law enforcement) To record the name and other details of a suspected offender and the offence for later judicial action.
(sports) To issue with a caution, usually a yellow card, or a red card if a yellow card has already been issued.
(slang) To travel very fast.
To record bets as bookmaker.
(law student slang) To receive the highest grade in a class.
(slang) To leave.
(bake)
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In lang=en terms the difference between arrest and book
is that arrest is the act of arresting a criminal, suspect etc while book is six tricks taken by one side.In transitive terms the difference between arrest and book
is that arrest is to catch the attention of while book is to write down, to register or record in a book or as in a book.As nouns the difference between arrest and book
is that arrest is a check, stop, an act or instance of arresting something while book is a collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material, pictures, etc.As verbs the difference between arrest and book
is that arrest is to stop the motion of (a person or animal) while book is to reserve (something) for future use.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
* * * * ----book
English
(wikipedia book)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . (cognates)Cognate with (etyl) (m), . The sense development of beech'' to ''book'' is explained by the fact that smooth gray beech bark was commonly used as bookfell.J.P. Mallory, ''Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture , s.v. "beech" (London: Fitroy-Dearborn, 1997), 58.Noun
(en noun)- She opened the book to page 37 and began to read aloud.
- He was frustrated because he couldn't find anything about dinosaurs in the book .
- I have three copies of his first book .
- Genesis is the first book of the Bible.
- Many readers find the first book of ''A Tale of Two Cities'' to be confusing.
- I'm running a book on who is going to win the race.
- a book of stamps
- a book of raffle tickets
Synonyms
* (collection of sheets of paper bound together containing printed or written material) tome (especially a large book) * booklet * tome, volume * (script of a musical) libretto * (records of the accounts of a business) accounts, recordsDerived terms
* address book * audiobook * book account * book agent * book-answerer * book award * book-bearer * bookbinder * book-board * book-bosomed * book-bound * book-boy * book-burning * book canvasser * bookcase * book-cloth * book club * book concern * book-crab * book-credit * book-debt * book-edge gilder * book-edge marbler * book end, bookend * bookery * booketeria * book-farmer * book-folder * book-form * bookful * book-ghoul * book-gill * book hand * book-holder * bookhood * book-house * book-hunt * bookie * bookish * bookism * bookjacket * bookkeeper * bookkeeping * book-label * book-lare * book-law * book-lear * book-learned * book-learning * book-length * bookless * booklet * booklike * bookling * booklore * booklouse * book lung * bookly * bookmaker * bookmaking * bookman * bookmark, bookmarker * book match * book-mate * book-mindedness * book mite * bookmobile * book-muslin * book name * book-number * book-oath * book of first entry * book of original entry * Book of the Dead * book of the film * Book of God * book of lading * book of life * book of rates * book of reference * book of the living * book of words * book-packet * book piles * bookplate * book pocket * book-post * book-postage * book-press * book price * book prop * book-rate * book-read * bookrest * book-scorpion * bookseller * bookselling * bookshelf * bookshop * book-shy * booksie, booksy * book-slide * book-society * book-stack * bookstall * book-stamp * bookstand * bookstore * book support * booksy * book-table * book token * book trade * book-tray * book-trough * book type * book value * bookwards * book-ways * bookwise * bookwork * book-world * bookworm * book-wright * booky * bring to book * burn book * by the book * casebook * closed book * close the books * coffee-table book * comic book * cookbook * cookery book * cook the books * copybook * coursebook * e-book * exercise book * the Good Book * guidebook * handbook * hymn book * in anyone's book * in my book * in someone's bad books * in someone's good books * in the books * know like a book * logbook * make book * matchbook * notebook * off the books * on the books * open book * passbook * pension book * phrasebook * pocket-book, pocketbook * prayer book * ration book * reading book * read like a book * reference book * rough book * scrapbook * sketch book * songbook * storybook * suit one's book * take a leaf out of someone's book * talk like a book * textbook * throw the book at * without book * wordbook * workbook * yearbookSee also
* incunable * scroll * tome * volumeVerb
(en verb)- I want to book a hotel room for tomorrow night
- I can book tickets for the concert next week.
- They booked that message from the hill
- The police booked him for driving too fast.
- He was really booking , until he passed the speed trap.
- The top three students had a bet on which one was going to book their intellectual property class.
- He was here earlier, but he booked .