Detain vs Detent - What's the difference?
detain | detent |
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
That which locks or unlocks a movement; a catch, pawl, or dog; especially, in clockwork, the catch which locks and unlocks the wheelwork in striking.
* 1972 , Mayer et al., United States Patent 3760640 , abstract:
As verbs the difference between detain and detent
is that detain is keep (someone) from proceeding by holding them back or making claims on their attention while detent is the action of creating a detent mechanism to lock or unlock movement.As a noun detent is
that which locks or unlocks a movement; a catch, pawl, or dog; especially, in clockwork, the catch which locks and unlocks the wheelwork in striking.detain
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Verb
(en verb)- Detain not the wages of the hireling.
detent
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Noun
(wikipedia detent) (en noun)- A UHF tuner having 70 detent positions with fine tuning capability at all locations. Coarse tuning is accomplished via a toothed, detented disk and a spirally-extending rim having a follower lever operable therewith.
