jail

Significado (Inglês)

1. 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.
2. Confinement in a jail.
3. 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).
4. In dodgeball and related games, the area where players who have been struck by the ball are confined.
5. A kind of sandbox for running a guest operating system instance.

prison

gaol

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

jail cell

stone-jug

put in jail

keep in prison

jail house

clap in prison

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Pronunciado como (IPA)

/d͡ʒeɪ(ə)l/

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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