different between incarceration vs incarcerate
incarceration
English
Etymology
From Old French incarceration, from Medieval Latin incarceratio
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
incarceration (countable and uncountable, plural incarcerations)
- The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment.
- (surgery, dated) strangulation, as in hernia.
- A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.
Derived terms
Related terms
- incarcerate
Translations
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incarcerate
English
Etymology
From Medieval Latin incarceratus, past participle of incarcerare (“to imprison”), from Latin in (“in”) + carcer (“a prison”), meaning "put behind lines (bars)" – Latin root is of a lattice or grid. Related to cancel (“cross out with lines”) and chancel (“area behind a lattice”).
See also carcerate and cancer.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?n?k??.s???e?t/
- (US) IPA(key): /?n?k??.s???e?t/
Verb
incarcerate (third-person singular simple present incarcerates, present participle incarcerating, simple past and past participle incarcerated)
- To lock away; to imprison, especially for breaking the law.
- 2013 September 23, Masha Gessen, "Life in a Russian Prison," New York Times (retrieved 24 September 2013):
- Tolokonnikova has also been an effective public speaker even while incarcerated, but she has spoken out on politics and freedom in general rather than prisoners’ rights.
- 2013 September 23, Masha Gessen, "Life in a Russian Prison," New York Times (retrieved 24 September 2013):
- To confine; to shut up or enclose; to hem in.
Usage notes
As a Latinate term, somewhat formal, compared to imprison.
Synonyms
- imprison
- jail
Derived terms
- incarceration
Related terms
- carceral
- carcerate
- decarcerate
Translations
Further reading
- incarcerate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- incarcerate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Italian
Verb
incarcerate
- second-person plural present of incarcerare
- second-person plural imperative of incarcerare
- feminine plural past participle of incarcerare
Anagrams
- accentrerai
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