Shelter vs Bail - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between shelter and bail

is that shelter is a refuge, haven or other cover or protection from something while bail is security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial.

As verbs the difference between shelter and bail

is that shelter is to provide cover from damage or harassment; to shield; to protect while bail is to secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail.

shelter

English

Noun

(en noun)

A refuge, haven or other cover or protection from something.

* {{quote-book, year=1928, author=Lawrence R. Bourne

, title=Well Tackled! , chapter=7 citation , passage=The detective kept them in view. He made his way casually along the inside of the shelter until he reached an open scuttle close to where the two men were standing talking. Eavesdropping was not a thing Larard would have practised from choice, but there were times when, in the public interest, he had to do it, and this was one of them.}}

An institution that provides temporary housing for homeless people, battered women etc.

Derived terms

* bus shelter

Verb

(en verb)

To provide cover from damage or harassment; to shield; to protect.

* Dryden

Those ruins sheltered once his sacred head.

* Southey

You have no convents in which such persons may be received and sheltered .

To take cover.

During the rainstorm, we sheltered under a tree.

bail

English

(wikipedia bail)

Etymology 1

From the (etyl) verb .

Noun

(en noun)

Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial.

(legal, UK) Release from imprisonment on payment of such money.

(legal, UK) The person providing such payment.

A bucket or scoop used for removing water from a boat etc.

* Captain Cook

The bail of a canoe made of a human skull.

(obsolete) Custody; keeping.

* Spenser

Silly Faunus now within their bail .

Derived terms

* jump bail * out on bail

Verb

(en verb)

To secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail.

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(legal) To release a person under such guarantee.

(legal) To hand over personal property to be held temporarily by another as a bailment.

to bail''' cloth to a tailor to be made into a garment; to '''bail goods to a carrier

(nautical) To remove (water) from a boat by scooping it out.

to bail water out of a boat

* Capt. J. Smith

buckets to bail out the water

(nautical) To remove water from (a boat) by scooping it out.

to bail a boat

* R. H. Dana, Jr.

By the help of a small bucket and our hats we bailed her out.

To set free; to deliver; to release.

* Spenser

Ne none there was to rescue her, ne none to bail .

Derived terms

* bailment * bailor * bailee * bail out

Etymology 2

From a shortening of bail out, which from above.

Verb

(en verb)

(slang) To exit quickly.

With his engine in flames, the pilot had no choice but to bail .

* 2010 September, Jeannette Cooperman, "Bringing It Home", , ISSN 1090-5723, volume 16, issue 9, page 62:

The Teacher Home Visit Program takes a huge commitment—time, energy, patience, diplomacy. Quite a few schools have tried it and bailed .

(informal) To fail to meet a commitment.

Etymology 3

From (etyl) beyl, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

A hoop, ring or handle (especially of a kettle or bucket) .

* 2010 , John M. Findley, Just Lucky , page 78,

I reached across beneath the cow to attach a metal bail' to each end of the strap so that the '''bail''' hung about 5 inches below the cow's belly.While stroking and talking to the cow, I reached under and suspended the machine on the ' bail beneath the cow, with its four suction cups dangling to one side.

A stall for a cow (or other animal) (usually tethered with a semi-circular hoop) .

* 1953 , British Institute of Management, Centre for Farm Management, Farm Management Association, Farm Managememt , 1960, John Wiley, page 160,

More recently, the fixed bail , sometimes called the ‘milking parlour’, with either covered or open yards, has had a certain vogue and some very enthusiastic claims have been made for this method of housing.

* 2011 , Edith H. Whetham, Joan Thirsk, The Agrarian History of England and Wales , Volume 8: Volumes 1914-1939, page 191,

Ten men thus sufficed for the milking of three hundred cows in five bails , instead of the thirty men who would normally have been employed by conventional methods.

A hinged bar as a restraint for animals, or on a typewriter.

(chiefly, Australia, and, New Zealand) A frame to restrain a cow during milking or feeding.

* 2011 , Bob Ellis, Hush Now, Don't Cry , page 153,

But until he had poured enough milk into the vat above the separator, I drove unmilked cows into the bail' where he had previously milked and released one. He moved from one '''bail''' to the other to milk the next one I had readied. I drove each cow into the empty ' bail , chained her in, roped the outer hind leg then washed and massaged the udder and teats.

A hoop, ring, or other object used to connect a pendant to a necklace.

(cricket) One of the two wooden crosspieces that rest on top of the stumps to form a wicket.

(furniture) Normally curved handle suspended between sockets as a drawer pull. This may also be on a kettle or pail, as the wire bail handle shown in the drawing.

Verb

(en verb)

To secure the head of a cow during milking.

Etymology 4

From (etyl) baillier.

Verb

(en verb)

(rare) To confine.

(Australia, New Zealand) To secure (a cow) by placing its head in a bail for milking.

(Australia, New Zealand) To keep (a traveller) detained in order to rob them; to corner (a wild animal); loosely, to detain, hold up. (Usually with (up).)

* 2006 , Clive James, North Face of Soho , Picador 2007, p. 128:

The transition over the rooftop would have been quicker if Sellers had not been bailed up by a particularly hostile spiritual presence speaking Swedish.

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