Probation vs Bail - What's the difference?
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A period of time when a person occupies a position only conditionally and may easily be removed for poor performance
A type of sentence where convicted criminals are allowed to continue living in the community but will automatically be sent to jail if they violate certain conditions
(archaic) The act of testing; proof
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Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial.
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(legal, UK) Release from imprisonment on payment of such money.
(legal, UK) The person providing such payment.
A bucket or scoop used for removing water from a boat etc.
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(obsolete) Custody; keeping.
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To secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail.
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(legal) To release a person under such guarantee.
(legal) To hand over personal property to be held temporarily by another as a bailment.
(nautical) To remove (water) from a boat by scooping it out.
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(nautical) To remove water from (a boat) by scooping it out.
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To set free; to deliver; to release.
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(slang) To exit quickly.
* 2010 September, Jeannette Cooperman, "Bringing It Home", , ISSN 1090-5723, volume 16, issue 9, page 62:
(informal) To fail to meet a commitment.
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A hoop, ring or handle (especially of a kettle or bucket) .
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A stall for a cow (or other animal) (usually tethered with a semi-circular hoop) .
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* 2011 , Edith H. Whetham, Joan Thirsk, The Agrarian History of England and Wales , Volume 8: Volumes 1914-1939,
A hinged bar as a restraint for animals, or on a typewriter.
(chiefly, Australia, and, New Zealand) A frame to restrain a cow during milking or feeding.
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A hoop, ring, or other object used to connect a pendant to a necklace.
(cricket) One of the two wooden crosspieces that rest on top of the stumps to form a wicket.
(furniture) Normally curved handle suspended between sockets as a drawer pull. This may also be on a kettle or pail, as the wire bail handle shown in the drawing.
(rare) To confine.
(Australia, New Zealand) To secure (a cow) by placing its head in a bail for milking.
(Australia, New Zealand) To keep (a traveller) detained in order to rob them; to corner (a wild animal); loosely, to detain, hold up. (Usually with (up).)
* 2006 , Clive James, North Face of Soho , Picador 2007, p. 128:
As nouns the difference between probation and bail
is that probation is a period of time when a person occupies a position only conditionally and may easily be removed for poor performance while bail is security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial.As a verb bail is
to secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail.probation
English
Noun
(en noun)- You'll be on probation for first six months. After that, if you work out, they'll hire you permanently.
- He got two years probation for robbery.
- And I shall proceed to consider the testimony of Experience, when I shall have first advertis'd You, that if Men were as perfectly rational as 'tis to be wish'd they were, this sensible way of Probation would be as needless as 'tis wont to be imperfect.
- And then it started like a guilty thing / Upon a fearful summons. I have heard, / The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, / Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat / Awake the god of day; and, at his warning, / Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air / The extravagant and erring spirit hies / To his confine: and of the truth herein / This present object made probation .
Derived terms
* probationary * probation officer * academic probationExternal links
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(wikipedia bail)Etymology 1
From the (etyl) verb .Noun
(en noun)- The bail of a canoe made of a human skull.
- Silly Faunus now within their bail .
Derived terms
* jump bail * out on bailVerb
(en verb)- to bail''' cloth to a tailor to be made into a garment; to '''bail goods to a carrier
- to bail water out of a boat
- buckets to bail out the water
- to bail a boat
- By the help of a small bucket and our hats we bailed her out.
- Ne none there was to rescue her, ne none to bail .
Derived terms
* bailment * bailor * bailee * bail outEtymology 2
From a shortening of bail out, which from above.Verb
(en verb)- With his engine in flames, the pilot had no choice but to bail .
- The Teacher Home Visit Program takes a huge commitment—time, energy, patience, diplomacy. Quite a few schools have tried it and bailed .
Etymology 3
From (etyl) beyl, from (etyl) .Noun
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- I reached across beneath the cow to attach a metal bail' to each end of the strap so that the '''bail''' hung about 5 inches below the cow's belly.While stroking and talking to the cow, I reached under and suspended the machine on the ' bail beneath the cow, with its four suction cups dangling to one side.
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- More recently, the fixed bail , sometimes called the ‘milking parlour’, with either covered or open yards, has had a certain vogue and some very enthusiastic claims have been made for this method of housing.
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- Ten men thus sufficed for the milking of three hundred cows in five bails , instead of the thirty men who would normally have been employed by conventional methods.
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- But until he had poured enough milk into the vat above the separator, I drove unmilked cows into the bail' where he had previously milked and released one. He moved from one '''bail''' to the other to milk the next one I had readied. I drove each cow into the empty ' bail , chained her in, roped the outer hind leg then washed and massaged the udder and teats.
Etymology 4
From (etyl) baillier.Verb
(en verb)- The transition over the rooftop would have been quicker if Sellers had not been bailed up by a particularly hostile spiritual presence speaking Swedish.