Detain vs Prolong - What's the difference?
detain | prolong |
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
(label) To extend in space or length.
(label) To lengthen in time; to extend the duration of; to draw out; to continue.
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=5, title= (label) To lengthen temporally; to put off to a distant time; to postpone.
As verbs the difference between detain and prolong
is that detain is keep (someone) from proceeding by holding them back or making claims on their attention while prolong is (label) to extend in space or length.detain
English
Verb
(en verb)- Detain not the wages of the hireling.
prolong
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Verb
(en verb)A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged . In the road Mr. Love and the driver favoured the company with a brief chanty running. “Got it?—No, I ain't, 'old on,—Got it? Got it?—No, 'old on sir.”}}
