jail

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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. countable,uncountable
    — serve time in jail
  2. Confinement in a jail. uncountable
    — He said Robins had not been in trouble with the law before and had no previous convictions. Jail would have an adverse effect on her and her three children as she was the main carer.
  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). uncountable
  4. In dodgeball and related games, the area where players who have been struck by the ball are confined. countable,uncountable
  5. A kind of sandbox for running a guest operating system instance. uncountable,usually
动词 v.
  1. To imprison.
    — It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.

词形变化

jails plural gaol alternative,UK,dated jails present,singular,third-person jailing participle,present jailed participle,past jailed past gaol alternative,UK,dated

词汇关系

近义词
big house borstal bridewell brig calaboose can chokey choky clink correctional facility correctional institution crowbar hotel detention centre dungeon gaol glasshouse graybar hotel guardhouse gulag hock hole honor farm hoosegow house of detention iron house jail jailhouse joint jug juvenile hall juvie lockup nigger university nick pen penal colony penitentiary pokey porridge prison prison camp prison farm prison hulk prison ship queer ken remand center roundhouse slammer slam stalag stir stockade tronk up the river workhouse Alcatraz Attica Bastille Dartmoor Devil's Island Folsom Hanoi Hilton Leavenworth Lefortovo Maze Pelican Bay San Quentin Sing Sing Tower
衍生词
air jail black jail county jail Facebook jail gay baby jail get-out-of-jail-free card get out of jail free card grippy sock jail horny jail in jail jailbait jail-bait jail bait jail bars jail-bird jail bird jailbird jailbreak jail break jailbreaker jail cell jaildom jailer jail fever jail fodder jailful jailhouse jailish jail juice jailkeeper jail khana jailless jaillike jail lock jailmate jailor jail purse jail school jail sentence Jailtacht jailtime jailward jailwards jailyard movie jail nonjail phone jail superjail under the jail unjail enjail
相关词
chain gang furlough parole prisoner imprison
部分词
bar cell cellblock death row gate solitary solitary confinement wall ward yard chaplain con convict corrections officer criminal detainee inmate jailbird jailer prison guard prison matron screw trusty turnkey warden warder wardress

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh₁-der.
Proto-Indo-European *ḱowh₁ós?
Proto-Italic *kawos
Latin cavus
Latin cavea
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Indo-European *-elós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Latin -ulus
Latin -ola
Late Latin caveola
Anglo-Norman jaiolebor.
Middle English gayole
English jail
Inherited from Middle English gayole, borrowed from Anglo-Norman jaiole, from Late Latin caveola, from Latin cavea (“cage”) + -ola (diminutive ending). Doublet of caveola and related to cage. More at cajole.
Fully displaced native Middle English quartern (“prison, jail, cell”), from Old English cweartern (“jail, prison”).
Partially displaced native Middle English lok, from Old English loc (“enclosure, pen; jail, prison”), whence lock; and Middle English carcern, from Old English carcern, from Latin carcer (“prison, jail”).
Compare these Old English words, all meaning “jail”: heaþor, heolstorloca (means also “jail cell”), clūstorloc, dung (also “dungeon”), hlinræced, nirwþ, nīedcleofa, hearmloca, and nearu.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh₁-der.
Proto-Indo-European *ḱowh₁ós?
Proto-Italic *kawos
Latin cavus
Latin cavea
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Indo-European *-elós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Latin -ulus
Latin -ola
Late Latin caveola
Anglo-Norman jaiolebor.
Middle English gayole
English jail
Inherited from Middle English gayole, borrowed from Anglo-Norman jaiole, from Late Latin caveola, from Latin cavea (“cage”) + -ola (diminutive ending). Doublet of caveola and related to cage. More at cajole.
Fully displaced native Middle English quartern (“prison, jail, cell”), from Old English cweartern (“jail, prison”).
Partially displaced native Middle English lok, from Old English loc (“enclosure, pen; jail, prison”), whence lock; and Middle English carcern, from Old English carcern, from Latin carcer (“prison, jail”).
Compare these Old English words, all meaning “jail”: heaþor, heolstorloca (means also “jail cell”), clūstorloc, dung (also “dungeon”), hlinræced, nirwþ, nīedcleofa, hearmloca, and nearu.
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