Detain vs Prisoner - What's the difference?
detain | prisoner |
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 person incarcerated in a prison, while on trial or serving a sentence.
Any person held against their will.
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*:Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile?; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.
As a verb detain
is keep (someone) from proceeding by holding them back or making claims on their attention.As a noun prisoner is
a person incarcerated in a prison, while on trial or serving a sentence.detain
English
Verb
(en verb)- Detain not the wages of the hireling.