Tra từ detain - Từ điển LongMan Dictionary

de‧tain/dɪˈteɪn/ verb [TRANSITIVE]
[date : 1400-1500; Language : Old French; Origin : detenir, from Latin detinere, from tenere 'to hold']
1. to officially prevent someone from leaving a place:
　 ▪ Two suspects have been detained by the police for questioning.
　 ▪ She was detained in hospital with a suspected broken leg.

2. [USUALLY PASSIVE]
formal to stop someone from leaving as soon as they expected SYN delay:
　 ▪ He was detained in Washington on urgent business.

verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
arrest/detain a suspect
▪ Detectives arrested the suspect after a five-day undercover operation.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
NOUN
charge
▪ The police now have up to ninety-six hours, i.e. four days and nights, to detain people without charge.
▪ After her husband's life sentence, Mrs Sisulu, 68, was detained without charge twice.
▪ In the 1970s he was detained without charge or trial for five years and tortured and held for long periods in leg-irons.
▪ Nearly all the political prisoners are detained without charges and never brought to trial.
▪ Since 1970 hundreds of Jehovah's Witnesses have been detained without charge or trial for up to five years.
▪ By 1984, it had crystallized into a firm time control on the police power to detain without charge.
hospital
▪ Her husband, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease, was detained in hospital and sedated pending geriatric assessment.
▪ Twenty-four passengers were still being detained in two Dublin hospitals last night with fractures, and one with spinal injuries.
▪ Five were detained in hospital, including two fascists, and one doctor saw between fifty and seventy victims.
▪ Only four people - two policemen and two civilians - were detained in hospital.
▪ All are detained in Darlington Memorial Hospital.
▪ A person can be detained in hospital for treatment on health grounds under section three of the Mental Health Act.
▪ Psychiatric reports were eventually obtained and recommended that he should be detained in hospital for treatment, not in prison.
▪ Wardens, Suninder Gogner and Christine Hoy-Taylor, were detained overnight in hospital and their condition yesterday was comfortable.
people
▪ It also said that 1,751 people had been detained without trial due to their political affiliation.
▪ A van full of immigrants arrived early this afternoon, the first people to be detained at the centre.
▪ A further 57 people were detained bringing the number interviewed to more than 1,000 since Operation Bumblebee began in January.
▪ Returnees were among 40 people detained in Muyinga province, in the northeast.
▪ Up to 8,000 people would be detained under the Tory crackdown, she claimed.
▪ Since 1981 hundreds of people have been detained under this law, some for more than eight years.
▪ Most of the defendants were among 21 people detained by police as they left the conference.
person
▪ The constable must not be exceeding his authority, such as detaining a person without a power of arrest.
police
▪ As an immediate response to the killing the police detained more than 200 people in the Zawiya al-Hamra district of Cairo.
▪ His body was found in the sports complex where police had taken those detained.
▪ The police detained Akaluka for his own protection.
▪ State officials said the visiting police helped state agents detain 12 people and recuperate 12 stolen cars.
▪ In another move to silence criticism, police on Thursday detained the paper's editor, Rudolf Zeman.
▪ His threat came after the former head of the secret police was detained in Belgrade.
▪ Su picked out eight or nine men, and the police detained them.
▪ One of the men had even helped to shift bales of hay before police arrived and detained the pair.
trial
▪ It also said that 1,751 people had been detained without trial due to their political affiliation.
▪ In the 1970s he was detained without charge or trial for five years and tortured and held for long periods in leg-irons.
▪ Since 1970 hundreds of Jehovah's Witnesses have been detained without charge or trial for up to five years.
▪ He was previously detained without trial from September 1989 until April 1990 when he was released uncharged.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I won't detain you for much longer, Miss Reid. There are just a few more questions that I need to ask you.
▪ Mr Jones should be here, but I'm afraid he's been unavoidably detained.
▪ Mrs. Flanagan was detained in Washington on urgent business.
▪ Police detained two suspects for questioning.
▪ The police are now allowed to detain terrorist suspects for as long as a week.
▪ Three men from the ship have been detained for questioning by the Harbour Authorities.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All are detained in Darlington Memorial Hospital.
▪ George had a tendency to be detained or shot at for sketching coastal installations in strategic areas.
▪ His body was found in the sports complex where police had taken those detained.
▪ Since 1981 hundreds of people have been detained under this law, some for more than eight years.
▪ The officer later detained the man after a struggle, but needed ten stitches to the wound.
▪ When Stephen reaches Winchester safely, the Earl of Gloucester will be released and his son detained.