confinement

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of confining or the state of being confined. countable,uncountable
    — “A Navy Sailor has been placed in pretrial confinement in connection with the death of Seaman Resendiz. Charges under the Uniform Code of Military Justice are pending,” NCIS told CNN in a statement Thursday.
  2. Lying-in, time of giving birth. countable,dated,uncountable
    — In confinement ladies are attended, not by the ordinary doctors, but by women especially devoted to the calling, who regard their profession as honorable and humanitary.
  3. lockdown countable,uncountable

词形变化

confinements plural

词汇关系

衍生词
anticonfinement bioconfinement confinement loaf confinement time deconfinement energy confinement time expected date of confinement nanoconfinement nonconfinement postconfinement preconfinement reconfinement self-confinement solitary confinement unconfinement

词源

Borrowed from French confinement. By surface analysis, confine + -ment.
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