English-Thai Dictionary

confinement

N การ จำกัด  restriction limitation kan-jum-kad

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CONFINEMENT

n. 1. Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty by force or other obstacle or necessity; as the confinement of a debtor or criminal to a prison, or of troops to a besieged town.
2. Voluntary restraint; seclusion; as the confinement of a man to his house, or to his studies.
3. Voluntary restraint in action or practice; as confinement to a particular diet.
4. Restraint from going abroad by sickness, particularly by child-birth.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

CONFINEMENT

CONFINEMENT Con *fine "ment, n.

 

1. Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion. The mind hates restraint, and is apt to fancy itself under confinement when the sight is pent up. Addison.

 

2. Restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by childbirth; lying-in.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

confinement

con fine ment |kənˈfīnmənt kənˈfaɪnmənt | ▶noun 1 the action of confining, or the state of being confined: he was immediately released from his confinement. 2 dated the condition of being in childbirth: the pros and cons of home versus hospital confinement | my grandmother's last six confinements.

 

Oxford Dictionary

confinement

con |fine |ment |kənˈfʌɪnmənt | ▶noun [ mass noun ] 1 the action of confining or state of being confined: he was immediately released from his confinement. 2 dated the condition of being in childbirth: the pros and cons of home versus hospital confinement | [ count noun ] : my grandmother's last six confinements.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

confinement

confinement noun 1 solitary confinement: imprisonment, internment, incarceration, custody, captivity, detention, restraint; house arrest. 2 the confinement of an animal: caging, enclosure; quarantine. 3 dated she went to the hospital for her confinement: labor, delivery, birthing; birth, childbirth; formal parturition; archaic lying-in, childbed.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

confinement

confinement noun 1 he was being held in solitary confinement: imprisonment, internment, incarceration, custody, captivity, detention, restraint, arrest, house arrest; literary thraldom, thrall; archaic duress, durance. ANTONYMS liberty. 2 prolonged confinement of an animal is prohibited: penning, caging, locking up, walling in /up, enclosure, encirclement, surrounding, encompassment; quarantine; N. Amer. corralling; rare immurement. 3 she was admitted to hospital for her confinement: labour, (expected ) delivery, giving birth, birthing; birth, childbirth, nativity; technical parturition; archaic lying-in, accouchement, childbed, travail.

 

French Dictionary

confinement

confinement n. m. nom masculin Isolement.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

confinement

con f í ne ment 名詞 1 U 監禁 (する [される ]こと ), 監禁状態 .2 U C ｟かたく ｠出産 ; 出産の床につくこと .