Incarcerate vs Intern - What's the difference?
incarcerate | intern | Synonyms |
To lock away; to imprison, especially for breaking the law.
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To confine; to shut up or enclose; to hem in.
To imprison somebody, usually without trial.
# To confine or hold (foreign military personnel who stray into the state's territory) within prescribed limits during wartime.
(computing) To internalize.
To work as an intern. Usually with little or no pay or other legal prerogatives of employment, for the purpose of furthering a program of education.
A student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field
A medical student or recent graduate working in a hospital as a final part of medical training
As verbs the difference between incarcerate and intern
is that incarcerate is to lock away; to imprison, especially for breaking the law while intern is to imprison somebody, usually without trial.As a noun intern is
a person who is interned, forceably or voluntarily.As an adjective intern is
internal.incarcerate
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(incarcerat)Life in a Russian Prison," New York Times (retrieved 24 September 2013):
- Tolokonnikova has also been an effective public speaker even while incarcerated , but she has spoken out on politics and freedom in general rather than prisoners’ rights.
Usage notes
As a Latinate term, somewhat formal, compared to imprison.Synonyms
* imprison * jailDerived terms
* incarcerationExternal links
* * ----intern
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Alternative forms
* interne (archaic)Etymology 1
From (etyl) , compareVerb
(en verb)- The US government interned thousands of Japanese-Americans during World War II.
- The Swiss government interned the Italian soldiers who had strayed onto Swiss territory.
- I'll be interning at Universal Studios this summer.