different between detain vs forhold

English

Etymology

From Old French detenir. Cognate with Italian detenere, Portuguese deter, Romanian de?ine, and Spanish detener.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??te?n/
• Rhymes: -e?n

Verb

detain (third-person singular simple present detains, present participle detaining, simple past and past participle detained)

1. (transitive) To keep someone from proceeding by holding them back or making claims on their attention.
2. (transitive) To put under custody.
3. (transitive) To keep back or from; to withhold.
   • 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living

     Detain not the wages of the hireling.

4. (transitive) To seize goods for official purposes.

Derived terms

• detainee

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• -tadine, Danite, Tienda, indate, nidate, tienda

English

Etymology

From Middle English forholden, forhalden, forhealden, from Old English forhealdan (“to forsake, fall away from, rebel against, let go, defile, pollute, withhold, misuse, abuse”); equivalent to for- +? hold. Cognate with Dutch verhouden (“to relate”), Low German vorholden (“to detain”), German verhalten (“to control, restrain”), Danish forholde (“to relate”), Norwegian forholde (“to deal”).

Verb

forhold (third-person singular simple present forholds, present participle forholding, simple past forheld, past participle forheld or forholden)

1. (transitive) To detain; hold up; hold back; retain; withhold; limit.
   • 1682, Thomas Comber, An historial Vindication of the divine Right of Tithes:

     King Alfred, his Son, when he made the League Guthran King of the Danes, An.878. made a Law to lay pecuniary Mulcts on all English or Danes, who should detain or forhold their Tithes, the Dane being to forfeit Twenty shillings, […]

   • 1912, United States Congress, Congressional edition - Page 721:

     " […] When the subject of contract is lawful, not public in its character, and the exercise of it is purely private and personal to the parties it can not be forholden or limited by the legislature."

Anagrams

• Holford

Danish

Etymology

From the verb forholde, ultimately from Middle Low German vorholden.

Noun

forhold n (singular definite forholdet, plural indefinite forhold)

1. relation
2. relationship
3. proportion
4. condition
5. ratio

Inflection

Synonyms

• relation
• holdning
• proportion, størrelsesforhold

Derived terms

Verb

forhold

1. imperative of forholde

References

• “forhold” in Den Danske Ordbog

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From German Verhältnis

Noun

forhold n (definite singular forholdet, indefinite plural forhold, definite plural forholda or forholdene)

1. relation; the manner in which two things may be associated.
2. relationship; a romantic or sexual involvement.
3. proportion; the relation of one part to another or to the whole with respect to magnitude, quantity, or degree.
4. condition; the state or quality of something, e.g. værforhold: weather conditions
5. a ratio

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

forhold

1. imperative of forholde

References

• “forhold” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From German Verhältnis

Noun

forhold n (definite singular forholdet, indefinite plural forhold, definite plural forholda)

1. relation; the manner in which two things may be associated.
2. relationship; a romantic or sexual involvement.
3. proportion; the relation of one part to another or to the whole with respect to magnitude, quantity, or degree.
4. condition; the state or quality of something.
5. a ratio

Derived terms

References

• “forhold” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.