arrest

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A check; a stop; an act or instance of arresting something. countable,uncountable
  2. The condition of being stopped, standstill. countable,uncountable
    — cardiac arrest, respiratory arrest
  3. The process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc. countable,uncountable
    — State police made a total of 15 drug-related arrests across the city.
  4. A confinement, detention, as after an arrest. countable,uncountable
  5. A device to physically arrest motion. countable,uncountable
  6. The judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators. countable,uncountable
  7. Any seizure by power, physical or otherwise. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — The sad stories of fire from heaven, the burning of his sheep, etc., […] were sad arrests to his troubled spirit.
  8. A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse countable,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To stop the motion of (a person, animal, or body part). obsolete,transitive
    — An vncouth paine torments my grieued ſoule, And death arreſts the organe of my voyce.
  2. To stay, remain. intransitive,obsolete
    — A white Starre[…]whiche to every mans sighte did lighte and arrest apon the Standard of Albry.
  3. To stop or slow (a process, course etc.). transitive
    — To try to arrest the spiral of violence, I contacted Chief Buthelezi to arrange a meeting.
  4. To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody. transitive
    — The police have arrested a suspect in the murder inquiry.
  5. To catch the attention of. transitive
    — There is something about this picture—something bold and vigorous, which arrests the attention. I feel sure it would be highly popular.
  6. To undergo cardiac arrest. intransitive
    — Realizing the mistake immediately from the outline of the RCA on the fluoroscope screen, he rapidly removed the catheter – just as his patient arrested.

词形变化

arrests plural arrests present,singular,third-person arresting participle,present arrested participle,past arrested past

词源

词源 1
From Middle English arest (noun) and aresten (verb), from Old French areste (noun) and arester (“to stay, stop”, verb), from Vulgar Latin *arrestō, from Latin ad- (“to”) + restō (“to stop, remain behind, stay back”), from re- (“back”) + stō (“to stand”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand”), equivalent to ad- + rest. Compare French arrêter (“to stop”).
词源 2
From Middle English arest (noun) and aresten (verb), from Old French areste (noun) and arester (“to stay, stop”, verb), from Vulgar Latin *arrestō, from Latin ad- (“to”) + restō (“to stop, remain behind, stay back”), from re- (“back”) + stō (“to stand”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand”), equivalent to ad- + rest. Compare French arrêter (“to stop”).
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