Retention vs Reclaim - What's the difference?
retention | reclaim |
The act of retaining or something retained
* 1599 , , II. iv. 95:
The act or power of remembering things
A memory; what is retained in the mind
(medicine) The involuntary withholding of urine and faeces
(obsolete) That which contains something, as a tablet; a means of preserving impressions.
(obsolete) The act of withholding; restraint; reserve.
* 1599 , , V. i. 79:
(obsolete) A place of custody or confinement.
(legal) The right to withhold a debt, or of retaining property until a debt due to the person claiming the right is duly paid; a lien.
(senseid)To return land to a suitable condition for use.
To obtain useful products from waste; to recycle.
To return someone to a proper course of action, or correct an error; to reform.
* Milton
* Rogers
* Sir E. Hoby
To claim something back; to repossess.
To tame or domesticate a wild animal.
* Dryden
To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.
* Dryden
To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.
* Waterland
* Bain
(obsolete, rare) To draw back; to give way.
(obsolete, falconry) The calling back of a hawk.
(obsolete) The bringing back or recalling of a person; the fetching of someone back.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.x:
An effort to take something back, to reclaim something.
As nouns the difference between retention and reclaim
is that retention is retention while reclaim is (obsolete|falconry) the calling back of a hawk.As a verb reclaim is
(senseid)to return land to a suitable condition for use.retention
English
(wikipedia retention)Noun
(en noun)- No woman's heart / So big, to hold so much; they lack retention .
- (Shakespeare)
- His life I gave him, and did thereto add / My love without retention or restraint,
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- (Craig)
Anagrams
*reclaim
English
Verb
(en verb)- They, hardened more by what might most reclaim , / Grieving to see his glory took envy.
- It is the intention of Providence, in all the various expressions of his goodness, to reclaim mankind.
- Your error, in time reclaimed , will be venial.
- an eagle well reclaimed
- The headstrong horses hurried Octavius along, and were deaf to his reclaiming them.
- Scripture reclaims', and the whole Catholic church ' reclaims , and Christian ears would not hear it.
- At a later period Grote reclaimed strongly against Mill's setting Whately above Hamilton.
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- (Spenser)
Noun
(en noun)- The louing couple need no reskew feare, / But leasure had, and libertie to frame / Their purpost flight, free from all mens reclame [...].