Detain vs Confine - What's the difference?
detain | confine |
Keep (someone) from proceeding by holding them back or making claims on their attention.
To put under custody.
To keep back or from; to withhold.
* Jeremy Taylor
To restrict; to keep within bounds; to shut or keep in a limited space or area.
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; followed by on'' or ''with .
* Milton
* Dryden
In transitive terms the difference between detain and confine
is that detain is to keep back or from; to withhold while confine is to restrict; to keep within bounds; to shut or keep in a limited space or area.As verbs the difference between detain and confine
is that detain is keep (someone) from proceeding by holding them back or making claims on their attention while confine is to restrict; to keep within bounds; to shut or keep in a limited space or area.As a noun confine is
limit.detain
English
Verb
(en verb)- Detain not the wages of the hireling.
confine
English
Verb
(confin)- Now let not nature's hand / Keep the wild flood confined ! let order die!
- He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of rhyme.
- Where your gloomy bounds / Confine with heaven
- Betwixt heaven and earth and skies there stands a place / Confining on all three.