Detain vs Hamper - What's the difference?
detain | hamper |
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
A large basket, usually with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles or small animals; as,
* a hamper of wine
* a clothes hamper
* an oyster hamper , which contains two bushels
To put into a hamper.
To put a hamper or fetter on; to shackle; to ensnare; to inveigle; hence, to impede in motion or progress; to embarrass; to encumber.
* Blackmore:
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A shackle; a fetter; anything which impedes.
(nautical) Articles]] [[ordinary, ordinarily indispensable, but in the way at certain times.
In lang=en terms the difference between detain and hamper
is that detain is to keep back or from; to withhold while hamper is to put a hamper or fetter on; to shackle; to ensnare; to inveigle; hence, to impede in motion or progress; to embarrass; to encumber.As verbs the difference between detain and hamper
is that detain is keep (someone) from proceeding by holding them back or making claims on their attention while hamper is to put into a hamper or hamper can be to put a hamper or fetter on; to shackle; to ensnare; to inveigle; hence, to impede in motion or progress; to embarrass; to encumber.As a noun hamper is
a large basket, usually with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles or small animals; as, or hamper can be a shackle; a fetter; anything which impedes.detain
English
Verb
(en verb)- Detain not the wages of the hireling.
hamper
English
(wikipedia hamper)Etymology 1
From (etyl) hamper, contracted from hanaper, hanypere, from (etyl) hanaper, (etyl) hanapier, .Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- ''Competition pigeons are hampered for the truck trip to the point of release where the race back starts
Etymology 2
From (etyl) hamperen, . More at (l).Verb
(en verb)- Hampered nerves.
- A lion hampered in a net.
- They hamper and entangle our souls.