retain
Bedeutung
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- Often followed by from: to hold back (someone or something); to check, to prevent, to restrain, to stop.
- Often followed by from: to hold back (someone or something); to check, to prevent, to restrain, to stop.
- Of a thing: to hold or keep (something) inside it; to contain.
- Of a thing: to hold or keep (something) inside it; to contain.
- To hold (something) secure; to prevent (something) from becoming detached or separated.
- To keep (something) in control or possession; to continue having (something); to keep back.
- To keep (something) in control or possession; to continue having (something); to keep back.
- To keep (something) in place or use, instead of removing or abolishing it; to preserve.
- To engage or hire (someone), especially temporarily.
- To engage or hire (someone), especially temporarily.
- To keep (someone) in one's pay or service; also, (chiefly historical) to maintain (someone) as a dependent or follower.
- To control or restrain (oneself); to exercise self-control over (oneself).
- To keep (someone) in custody; to prevent (someone) from leaving.
- To declare (a sin) not forgiven.
- To keep in control or possession; to continue having.
- To have the ability to keep something in the mind; to use the memory.
- Of a body or body organ: to hold back tissue or a substance.
- (obsolete) To refrain from doing something.
- (obsolete) To be a dependent or follower to someone.
- (obsolete) To continue, to remain.
Frequenz
Mit Bindestrich als
re‧tain
Ausgesprochen als (IPA)
/ɹɪˈteɪn/
Etymologie
From Late Middle English reteinen, retein (“to continue to keep, retain; to continue to possess; to possess; to contain; to draw back, retire; to hold back, restrain; to keep in mind, remember; to take back, repossess; to appoint; to engage in one’s service, employ, hire”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman reteiner, retenir [and other forms], Middle French retenir, and Old French retenir (“to keep back, retain; to keep, maintain, preserve; to possess; to engage in one’s service, employ; to detain; to hold back, restrain; to remember”) (modern French retenir), from Vulgar Latin *retinīre, from Latin retinēre, the present active infinitive of retineō (“to keep or hold back, detain, retain; to hold in check, stop; to hold fast, maintain; to keep in mind, remember”) (compare Late Latin retineō (“to keep engaged in one’s service”)), from re- (prefix meaning ‘again’) + teneō (“to grasp, hold; to hold fast, restrain; to possess; to keep in mind, remember”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to extend, stretch”)). Sense 1.10 (“to declare (a sin) not forgiven”) is derived from John 20:23 in the Bible, in Late Latin quorum retinueritis, retenta sunt, and in Koine Greek ἄν τινων κρατῆτε, κεκράτηνται: see the 1526 quotation. cognates * Catalan retenir * Italian retenere (obsolete), ritenere * Portuguese reter * Spanish retener
Verwandt mit Französisch
retenir
Verwandt mit Katalanisch
retenir
Verwandt mit Portugiesisch
reter
Verwandt mit Spanisch
retener
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