jail

As nouns the difference between jail and imprisonment

is that jail is a place for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody or detention, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding while imprisonment is a confinement in a place, especially a prison or a jail, as punishment for a crime.

As a verb jail

is to imprison.

As nouns the difference between jail and cell

is that jail is a place for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody or detention, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding while cell is a single-room dwelling for a hermit.

As verbs the difference between jail and cell

is that jail is to imprison while cell is to place or enclose in a cell.

As nouns the difference between arrest and jail

is that arrest is a check, stop, an act or instance of arresting something while jail is a place for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody or detention, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding.

As verbs the difference between arrest and jail

is that arrest is to stop the motion of (a person or animal) while jail is to imprison.

As nouns the difference between jail and ringolevio

is that jail is a place for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody or detention, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding while ringolevio is (us) a children's game, a variation of tag, where each side has a designated "jail" to hold captured players from the other team.

As a verb jail

is to imprison.

As verbs the difference between jail and rejail

is that jail is to imprison while rejail is to jail again.

As a noun jail

is a place for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody or detention, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding.

As nouns the difference between jail and jailbreaker

is that jail is a place for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody or detention, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding while jailbreaker is one who breaks out of jail.

As a verb jail

is to imprison.

As nouns the difference between jail and bastille

is that jail is a place for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody or detention, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding while bastille is a castle tower, or fortified building; a small citadel or fortress.

As a verb jail

is to imprison.

As a proper noun Bastille is

a prison in France, the storming of which in 1789 CE began the French Revolution.

As a noun jail

is a place for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody or detention, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding.

As a verb jail

is to imprison.

As an adjective jailless is

without a jail or jails.

As a noun jail

is a place for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody or detention, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding.

As a verb jail

is to imprison.

As an adjective jailable is

(of an offence) for which one may be jailed.

As nouns the difference between jail and jailkeeper

is that jail is a place for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody or detention, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding while jailkeeper is one who keeps a jail; a jailer.

As a verb jail

is to imprison.