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jailbird
English
Etymology
jail +? bird, circa 1600. Compare gallows bird.
Pronunciation
Noun
jailbird (plural jailbirds)
- A prisoner or an ex-prisoner
Related terms
- gallows bird
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jail
English
Alternative forms
- gaol (UK, Australia, Ireland, dated)
Etymology
From Middle English gayole, gaylle, gaille, gayle, gaile, via Old French gaiole, gayolle, gaole, from Medieval Latin gabiola, for Vulgar Latin *caveola, a diminutive of Latin cavea (“cavity, coop, cage”). Doublet of cage.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?e?l/
- Rhymes: -e?l
Noun
jail (countable and uncountable, plural jails)
- A place or institution for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody or detention, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding.
- (uncountable) Confinement in a jail.
- (horse racing) 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).
- In dodgeball and related games, the area where players who have been struck by the ball are confined.
- (computing, FreeBSD) A kind of sandbox for running a guest operating system instance.
Usage notes
- (place of confinement): Like many nouns denoting places where people spend time, jail requires no article after certain prepositions: hence in jail (“detained in a jail”), go to jail (“become detained in a jail”), and so on. The forms in a jail, go to a jail, and so on do exist, but tend to imply mere presence in the jail, rather than detention there.
- Until Monopoly popularised the spelling jail in the UK and Australia, gaol was the standard spelling in these countries.
- In the United States, there is a formal distinction between the terms jail and prison – the former refers to facilities run by local governments, the later refers to facilities run by the state and federal governments; however, this distinction is not always observed in informal usage. By contrast, in most of the rest of the English-speaking world, the two terms are synonymous.
Synonyms
- (place of confinement): slammer, hoosegow
Hypernyms
- (place of confinement): correctional facility, correctional institution
Coordinate terms
- (place of confinement): big house, prison
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Hindi: ??? (jel)
- ? Urdu: ???? (jel)
Translations
Verb
jail (third-person singular simple present jails, present participle jailing, simple past and past participle jailed)
- To imprison.
Synonyms
- imprison
- incarcerate
Translations
Anagrams
- jali
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