bail

Significat

Noun

1. Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial.
2. Release from imprisonment on payment of such money.
3. The person providing such payment.
4. A bucket or scoop used for removing water from a boat etc.
5. A person who bails water out of a boat.
6. (obsolete) Custody; keeping.

Verb

1. To secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail.
2. To release a person under such guarantee.
3. To hand over personal property to be held temporarily by another as a bailment.
4. To remove (water) from a boat by scooping it out.
5. To remove water from (a boat) by scooping it out.
6. To set free; to deliver; to release.

Verb

1. (slang) To leave or exit abruptly.
2. (informal) To fail to meet a commitment (to a person).

Verb

To secure the head of a cow during milking.

Verb

1. To confine.
2. To secure (a cow) by placing its head in a bail for milking.
3. To keep (a traveller) detained in order to rob them; to corner (a wild animal); loosely, to detain, hold up.

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/beɪ(ə)l/

Etimologia

From Middle English baille, from the Old French verb bailler (“to deliver or hand over”) and noun bail (“lease”), from Latin bāiulāre, present active infinitive of bāiulō (“carry or bear”), from baiulus (“porter; steward”) (English: bailiff).

Sents

Shakur had been effective in raising bail funds for jailed Panthers .