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Arrest vs Intern - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between arrest and intern

is that arrest is arrest, confinement, detention while intern is a person who is interned, forceably or voluntarily or intern can be a student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field.

As a verb intern is

to imprison somebody, usually without trial.

As an adjective intern is

(archaic) internal.

arrest

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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
  • The sad stories of fire from heaven, the burning of his sheep, etc., were sad arrests to his troubled spirit.
  • (farriery) A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse.
  • (White)

    Derived terms

    * arrest warrant * cardiac arrest * house arrest

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To stop the motion of (a person or animal).
  • * Philips
  • Nor could her virtues the relentless hand / Of Death arrest .
  • (obsolete) To stay, remain.
  • (Spenser)
  • To stop (a process, course etc.).
  • * 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 707:
  • To try to arrest the spiral of violence, I contacted Chief Buthelezi to arrange a meeting.
  • * 1997 : Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault , page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
  • Knowledge replaced universal resemblance with finite differences. History was arrested and turned into tables …Western reason had entered the age of judgement.
  • To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody.
  • The police have arrested a suspect in the murder inquiry.
  • * Shakespeare
  • I arrest thee of high treason.
  • To catch the attention of.
  • * 1919 : :
  • 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 * arresting

    Anagrams

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    intern

    English

    Alternative forms

    * interne (archaic)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) , compare

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who is interned, forceably or voluntarily.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To imprison somebody, usually without trial.
  • The US government interned thousands of Japanese-Americans during World War II.
  • # To confine or hold (foreign military personnel who stray into the state's territory) within prescribed limits during wartime.
  • The Swiss government interned the Italian soldiers who had strayed onto Swiss territory.
  • (computing) To internalize.
  • To work as an intern. Usually with little or no pay or other legal prerogatives of employment, for the purpose of furthering a program of education.
  • I'll be interning at Universal Studios this summer.
    Derived terms
    * internment * internee

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (archaic) Internal.
  • (Howell)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) interne 'inner, internal', from (etyl) internus "within, internal", from inter "between"; compare etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field
  • A medical student or recent graduate working in a hospital as a final part of medical training
  • Derived terms
    * internship

    Anagrams

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