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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun confinement has 4 senses
- confinement(n = noun.state) childbed, labor, labour, lying-in, parturiency, travail - concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours" has parts: uterine contraction, effacement, asynclitism, obliquity
- confinement(n = noun.act) Array - the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them; Array is a kind of restraint
- confinement(n = noun.state) Array - the state of being confined; "he was held in confinement" is a kind of subjection, subjugation
- confinement(n = noun.act) restriction - the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary); "the restriction of the infection to a focal area" is a kind of restraint
is a kind of birth, birthing, giving birth, parturition
is a part of gestation, maternity, pregnancy
has particulars: premature labor, premature labour
has particulars: imprisonment, internment, house arrest, commitment, committal, consignment
Derived form verb confine5
has particulars: constraint, restraint, captivity, immurement, imprisonment, incarceration, custody, detainment, detention, hold, solitary, solitary confinement
Derived form verb confine4
has particulars: classification, specification, stipulation, circumscription, constraint
CIDE DICTIONARY
confinement, n.
- Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion. [1913 Webster]"The mind hates restraint, and is apt to fancy itself under confinement when the sight is pent up." [1913 Webster]
- Restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by childbirth; lying-in. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
confinement, n.
1 the act or an instance of confining; the state of being confined.
2 the time of a woman's giving birth.
1 the act or an instance of confining; the state of being confined.
2 the time of a woman's giving birth.
THESAURUS
confinement
accouchement, beleaguerment, besetment, birth, birth throes, birthing, blessed event, blockade, blockading, boundary, bounds, childbearing, childbed, childbirth, circumscription, closeness, constraint, continence, cordoning, cramp, cramping, crowdedness, delivery, discipline, dismemberment, enclosure, envelopment, estrapade, galleys, genesis, giving birth, hair, hairbreadth, hairsbreadth, hard labor, hatching, having a baby, immurement, impalement, imprisonment, incapaciousness, incarceration, inclusion, incommodiousness, jailing, keelhauling, labor, limit, limitation, martyrdom, moderation, multiparity, narrow gauge, narrowness, nascency, nativity, nearness, parturition, penal servitude, picketing, prescription, proscription, qualification, quarantine, railriding, restrain, restraint, restrictedness, restriction, rock pile, siege, slenderness, stint, straitness, strappado, strictness, tar-and-feathering, the Nativity, the gantlet, the stork, tight squeeze, tightness, torment, torture, travailROGET THESAURUS
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Restraint
N restraint, hindrance, coercion, cohibition, constraint, repression, suppression, discipline, control, confinement, durance, duress, imprisonment, incarceration, coarctation, entombment, mancipation, durance vile, limbo, captivity, blockade, arrest, arrestation, custody, keep, care, charge, ward, restringency, curb, lettres de cachet, limitation, restriction, protection, monopoly, prohibition, prisoner, repressionist, restrained, constrained, imprisoned, pent up, jammed in, wedged in, under lock and key, under restraint, under hatches, in swaddling clothes, on parole, in custody, doing time, cohibitive, coactive, stiff, restringent, strait-laced, hidebound, barkbound, ice bound, wind bound, weather bound, cabined cribbed confined, in Lob's pound, laid by the heels.Production
N production, creation, construction, formation, fabrication, manufacture, building, architecture, erection, edification, coinage, diaster, organization, nisus formativus, putting together, establishment, workmanship, performance, achievement, flowering, fructification, inflorescence, bringing forth, parturition, birth, birth-throe, childbirth, delivery, confinement, accouchement, travail, labor, midwifery, obstetrics, geniture, gestation, assimilation, evolution, development, growth, entelechy, fertilization, gemination, germination, heterogamy, genesis, generation, epigenesis, procreation, progeneration, propagation, fecundation, impregnation, albumen, spontaneous generation, archegenesis, archebiosis, biogenesis, abiogenesis, digenesis, dysmerogenesis, eumerogenesis, heterogenesis, oogenesis, merogenesis, metogenesis, monogenesis, parthenogenesis, homogenesis, xenogenesis, authorship, publication, works, opus, oeuvre, biogeny, dissogeny, xenogeny, tocogony, vacuolization, edifice, building, structure, fabric, erection, pile, tower, flower, fruit, produced, producing, productive of, prolific, creative, formative, genetic, genial, genital, pregnant, enceinte, big with, fraught with, in the family way, teeming, parturient, in the straw, brought to bed of, puerperal, puerperous, digenetic, heterogenetic, oogenetic, xenogenetic, ectogenous, gamic, haematobious, sporogenous, sporophorous, architectonic, ex nihilo nihil, fiat lux, materiam superabat opus, nemo dat quod non habet.Circumscription
N circumscription, limitation, inclosure, confinement, circumvallation, encincture, envelope, container (receptacle), circumscribed, begirt, lapt, buried in, immersed in, embosomed, in the bosom of, imbedded, encysted, mewed up, imprisoned, landlocked, in a ring fence.
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