Lockdown vs Curfew - What's the difference?
lockdown | curfew |
(in an institution, such as a prison or school ) The confinement of people in their own rooms (or cells) as a security measure after a disturbance
(US) A contrivance to fasten logs together in rafting.
Any regulation requiring people to be off the streets and in their homes by a certain time.
* 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "
The time when such restriction begins.
A signal indicating this time.
A fireplace accessory designed to bank a fire by completely covering the embers.
(historical) A regulation in feudal Europe by which fires had to be covered up or put out at a certain fixed time in the evening, marked by the ringing of an evening bell.
The evening bell, which continued to be rung in many towns after the regulation itself became obsolete.
*, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.95:
As nouns the difference between lockdown and curfew
is that lockdown is (in an institution, such as a prison or school ) the confinement of people in their own rooms (or cells) as a security measure after a disturbance while curfew is any regulation requiring people to be off the streets and in their homes by a certain time.lockdown
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(wikipedia lockdown) (en noun)curfew
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Alternative forms
* cover-few (obsolete)Noun
(wikipedia curfew) (en noun)Hurricane Sandy," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):
- Localities across New Jersey imposed curfews to prevent looting. In Monmouth, Ocean and other counties, people waited for hours for gasoline at the few stations that had electricity. Supermarket shelves were stripped bare.
- I have my lodging neere unto a tower, where both evening and morning a very great bell doth chime Ave marie'' and ''Cover-few , which jangling doth even make the tower to shake.
