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Detain vs Holdback - What's the difference?

detain | holdback |

As a verb detain

is keep (someone) from proceeding by holding them back or making claims on their attention.

As a noun holdback is

restraint (act or result of holding back, device that restrains).

detain

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • 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
    • Detain not the wages of the hireling.

    holdback

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • restraint (act or result of holding back, device that restrains)
  • The projection or loop, on the thill of a vehicle, to which a strap of the harness is attached, to hold back a carriage when going downhill, or in backing.
  • The strap or part of the harness so used.
    • (Webster 1913)