jail
Significado (Inglés)
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- A place or institution for the confinement of persons held against their will in lawful custody or detention, especially (in US usage) a place where people are held for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding.
- Confinement in a jail.
- The condition created by the requirement that a horse claimed in a claiming race not be run at another track for some period of time (usually 30 days).
- In dodgeball and related games, the area where players who have been struck by the ball are confined.
- A kind of sandbox for running a guest operating system instance.
Conceptos
carcel
cárce
cárcel común
tiro penal
penalti córner
celda de castigo
Sinónimos
bastile
put in prison
put behind bars
be jailed
put prison
house of detention
police-station
bolt in
commit to prison
go to prison
prison house
detention house
stone-jug
put in jail
keep in prison
jail house
clap in prison
Frecuencia
Pronunciado como (IPA)
/d͡ʒeɪ(ə)l/
Etimología (Inglés)
From Middle English gayole, gaylle, gaille, gayle, gaile, via Old French gaiole, gayolle, gaole, from Medieval Latin gabiola, for Late Latin caveola, a diminutive of Latin cavea (“cavity, coop, cage”). Doublet of caveola and related to cage. More at cajole.
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