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Confine vs Lockup - What's the difference?

confine | lockup |

As nouns the difference between confine and lockup

is that confine is limit while lockup is a jail, prison.

As a verb confine

is to restrict; to keep within bounds; to shut or keep in a limited space or area.

confine

English

Verb

(confin)
  • To restrict; to keep within bounds; to shut or keep in a limited space or area.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Now let not nature's hand / Keep the wild flood confined ! let order die!
  • * Dryden
    • He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of rhyme.
  • To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; followed by on'' or ''with .
  • * Milton
    • Where your gloomy bounds / Confine with heaven
  • * Dryden
    • Betwixt heaven and earth and skies there stands a place / Confining on all three.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Limit.

    • Synonyms

    * (limit) border, bound, limit English heteronyms ----

    lockup

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang) A jail, prison.
  • :He's in lockup for 30 days for drunk and disorderly.
  • (UK, chiefly) A storage unit with a door secured by a padlock or deadbolt; a garage
  • :Joe keeps his other car in a lockup downtown.

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