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Stranded vs Detained - What's the difference?

stranded | detained |

As verbs the difference between stranded and detained

is that stranded is past tense of strand while detained is past tense of detain.

As an adjective stranded

is abandoned or marooned.

stranded

English

Verb

(head)
  • (strand)

    • Adjective

    (head)
  • (of a person) abandoned or marooned.
  • (nautical, of a vessel) Run aground on a shore or reef.
  • (of a piece of wire) Made by combining or bundling thinner wires.
  • expenses or costs which have become unrecoverable or difficult to recover.
  • * With utility deregulation, undepreciated equipment which is now redundant may have to be allocated as stranded costs.

    • References

    * FM 55-501 Marine Crewman’s Handbook

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    detained

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (detain)

    • detain

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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
    • Detain not the wages of the hireling.