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Definition of jail in English: jail(British gaol) noun dʒeɪldʒeɪl A place for the confinement of people accused or convicted of a crime. 监狱 he spent 15 years in jail 他在监狱里蹲了15年。 as modifier a jail sentence Example sentencesExamples - Others will call for gun control, for prosecuting minors as adults, for building new juvenile detention facilities and jails.
- It shows that prisoner discipline is the worst in any Scottish jail and that violence among inmates is rife.
- MSPs and prison officers say Fairweather's findings show that Scotland's jails are tinderboxes.
- It runs 56 correctional institutions and detention centres, including four Australian gaols.
- In February the United States reached a benchmark of 2 million individuals in its prisons and jails.
- Bulgaria's overcrowded jails are more likely to serve as universities of crime than places of rehabilitation.
- Venter denied that a concept such as solitary confinement existed in South African jails.
- He had been at this particular gaol for several months, and had watched her grow in all the lawless skills there were.
- It has also raised the ire of prison officers who said drugs were not acceptable outside jails and should not be tolerated inside either.
- Last year the number of inmates in the nation's prisons and jails reached nearly 1,932,000, a record number.
- One of the comments most commonly made in this context was that Scotland was a more law-abiding country than England, as evidenced by the prison reformer John Howard having found fewer criminals in its gaols.
- Other suggestions include all-women police stations, separate jails and lock-ups for women.
- The people who ran the men's home would bargain with judges to get convicts who were drug addicts out of the jails and into the home.
- David Brown says the Royal Commission helped end the violence against prisoners which existed in some jails.
- Ten thousand people work in the jails of Kuzbass, jails packed with over thirty thousand inmates.
- He put dissidents, or those suspected of a scintilla of disloyalty, into stinking jails which were often death centres.
- At the association's annual conference Mike Newell, right, called for reform to reduce the number of inmates entering jails.
- Kerik reduced crime in the city's jails by 95 per cent and ensured crime rates continued to decline.
- He was imprisoned in Gloucester gaol, despite the Lord Lieutenant's concerns that it was ‘not fit for a man of his quality.’
- At my hearing, I was sentenced to twelve months imprisonment in a maximum security jail.
Synonyms prison, penal institution, place of detention, lock-up, place of confinement, guardhouse, correctional facility, detention centre young offender institution, youth custody centre North American penitentiary, jailhouse, boot camp, stockade, house of correction informal the clink, the slammer, inside, stir, the jug, the big house, the brig, the glasshouse British informal the nick North American informal the can, the pen, the cooler, the joint, the pokey, the slam, the skookum house, the calaboose, the hoosegow British informal, dated chokey, bird, quod historical pound, roundhouse British historical approved school, borstal, bridewell Scottish historical tollbooth French, historical bastille North American historical reformatory
verb dʒeɪldʒeɪl [with object]Put (someone) in jail. 拘禁，把…投入监狱 the driver was jailed for two years 司机被拘禁两年。 Example sentencesExamples - But they decided that, well for a start she's not likely to do it again, and that no useful purpose would be spent by jailing her.
- At the age of 17, he was jailed for a year for affray after being involved in a riot.
- As well as jailing him for three years, she also ordered he forfeit £165 he had with him when he was arrested, and that the heroin be destroyed.
- In another case a man from Auxerre was jailed for keeping women captive in the basement of his home.
- Rob Ross, defending, said his client accepted he faced another custodial sentence, but urged the court to consider not jailing him.
- There was one young lifer she remembers in particular who was jailed for murder.
- Fining Allwn a paltry £2,000 instead of gaoling him, Judge Bertrand Richards observed: ‘The victim was guilty of a great deal of contributory negligence.’
- As well as jailing him for two years he ordered Adams' licence should be extended by three years when he is released.
- Anti-drink drive campaigners today blasted magistrates for not jailing a mum who drove off with her young son after knocking back a bottle of wine.
- He said he was jailed in January for shoplifting offences and stayed off drugs when he was released.
- Since Labour took office in 1997 an additional 6,000 have been gaoled, making the numbers imprisoned per head of population the highest in Europe after Portugal.
- She said that she also feared her son would be taken into care if she were jailed for the offences.
- What do people think about a Government that lets mafia criminals wander around free while jailing poor people for theft?
- As well as jailing him for eight weeks magistrates imposed another driving ban, which runs out at the same time as his current disqualification.
- Judge Robert Moore asked Walker to sit down in the dock as he outlined his reasons for jailing him for five years.
- What is the point of jailing a dangerous man for life twice over and then allowing possible parole after only 5 ½ years?
- He was jailed for life for wounding with intent to resist arrest but was cleared of attempted murder.
- He was jailed three times for repeatedly flouting a court order banning him from the estate.
- New evidence proved the man he was jailed for kicking to death had never received a kick.
- In 1980 he was jailed for three years for financing a plot to counterfeit gold coins.
Synonyms imprison, put in prison, send to prison, incarcerate, lock up, take into custody, put under lock and key, put away, intern, confine, detain, hold prisoner, hold captive, hold, put into detention, constrain, immure, put in chains, put in irons, clap in irons British detain at Her Majesty's pleasure informal send down, put behind bars, put inside British informal bang up
OriginMiddle English: based on Latin cavea (see cage). The word came into English in two forms, jaiole from Old French and gayole from Anglo-Norman French gaole (surviving in the spelling gaol), originally pronounced with a hard g, as in goat. The words jail and cage (Middle English) both go back to Latin cavea ‘hollow, cave, cell’, from cavus ‘hollow’ the source of cave. In Late Latin the -ea at the end of cavea softened to a ‘ya’ or ‘ja’ sound, which explains the sound changes between the source and the forms we use. Jail arrived in medieval English in two forms, from Old French jaiole and Anglo-Norman gaole, which survives in the old-fashioned British spelling gaol.
Rhymesail, ale, assail, avail, bail, bale, bewail, brail, Braille, chain mail, countervail, curtail, dale, downscale, drail, dwale, entail, exhale, fail, faille, flail, frail, Gael, Gail, gale, Grail, grisaille, hail, hale, impale, kale, mail, male, webmail, nonpareil, outsail, pail, pale, quail, rail, sail, sale, sangrail, scale, shale, snail, stale, swale, tail, tale, they'll, trail, upscale, vail, vale, veil, surveil, wail, wale, whale, Yale Definition of jail in US English: jail(British gaol) nounjāldʒeɪl A place for the confinement of people accused or convicted of a crime. 监狱 he served 15 months in jail as modifier a jail sentence Example sentencesExamples - Kerik reduced crime in the city's jails by 95 per cent and ensured crime rates continued to decline.
- The people who ran the men's home would bargain with judges to get convicts who were drug addicts out of the jails and into the home.
- Others will call for gun control, for prosecuting minors as adults, for building new juvenile detention facilities and jails.
- He was imprisoned in Gloucester gaol, despite the Lord Lieutenant's concerns that it was ‘not fit for a man of his quality.’
- He had been at this particular gaol for several months, and had watched her grow in all the lawless skills there were.
- Last year the number of inmates in the nation's prisons and jails reached nearly 1,932,000, a record number.
- It shows that prisoner discipline is the worst in any Scottish jail and that violence among inmates is rife.
- One of the comments most commonly made in this context was that Scotland was a more law-abiding country than England, as evidenced by the prison reformer John Howard having found fewer criminals in its gaols.
- Ten thousand people work in the jails of Kuzbass, jails packed with over thirty thousand inmates.
- At the association's annual conference Mike Newell, right, called for reform to reduce the number of inmates entering jails.
- It has also raised the ire of prison officers who said drugs were not acceptable outside jails and should not be tolerated inside either.
- Bulgaria's overcrowded jails are more likely to serve as universities of crime than places of rehabilitation.
- David Brown says the Royal Commission helped end the violence against prisoners which existed in some jails.
- In February the United States reached a benchmark of 2 million individuals in its prisons and jails.
- Venter denied that a concept such as solitary confinement existed in South African jails.
- He put dissidents, or those suspected of a scintilla of disloyalty, into stinking jails which were often death centres.
- It runs 56 correctional institutions and detention centres, including four Australian gaols.
- At my hearing, I was sentenced to twelve months imprisonment in a maximum security jail.
- Other suggestions include all-women police stations, separate jails and lock-ups for women.
- MSPs and prison officers say Fairweather's findings show that Scotland's jails are tinderboxes.
Synonyms prison, penal institution, place of detention, lock-up, place of confinement, guardhouse, correctional facility, detention centre
verbjāldʒeɪl [with object]usually be jailedPut (someone) in jail. 拘禁，把…投入监狱 the driver was jailed for two years 司机被拘禁两年。 Example sentencesExamples - Judge Robert Moore asked Walker to sit down in the dock as he outlined his reasons for jailing him for five years.
- Since Labour took office in 1997 an additional 6,000 have been gaoled, making the numbers imprisoned per head of population the highest in Europe after Portugal.
- Fining Allwn a paltry £2,000 instead of gaoling him, Judge Bertrand Richards observed: ‘The victim was guilty of a great deal of contributory negligence.’
- As well as jailing him for three years, she also ordered he forfeit £165 he had with him when he was arrested, and that the heroin be destroyed.
- But they decided that, well for a start she's not likely to do it again, and that no useful purpose would be spent by jailing her.
- In another case a man from Auxerre was jailed for keeping women captive in the basement of his home.
- There was one young lifer she remembers in particular who was jailed for murder.
- Rob Ross, defending, said his client accepted he faced another custodial sentence, but urged the court to consider not jailing him.
- He was jailed three times for repeatedly flouting a court order banning him from the estate.
- Anti-drink drive campaigners today blasted magistrates for not jailing a mum who drove off with her young son after knocking back a bottle of wine.
- New evidence proved the man he was jailed for kicking to death had never received a kick.
- What is the point of jailing a dangerous man for life twice over and then allowing possible parole after only 5 ½ years?
- At the age of 17, he was jailed for a year for affray after being involved in a riot.
- He said he was jailed in January for shoplifting offences and stayed off drugs when he was released.
- She said that she also feared her son would be taken into care if she were jailed for the offences.
- He was jailed for life for wounding with intent to resist arrest but was cleared of attempted murder.
- As well as jailing him for two years he ordered Adams' licence should be extended by three years when he is released.
- In 1980 he was jailed for three years for financing a plot to counterfeit gold coins.
- What do people think about a Government that lets mafia criminals wander around free while jailing poor people for theft?
- As well as jailing him for eight weeks magistrates imposed another driving ban, which runs out at the same time as his current disqualification.
Synonyms imprison, put in prison, send to prison, incarcerate, lock up, take into custody, put under lock and key, put away, intern, confine, detain, hold prisoner, hold captive, hold, put into detention, constrain, immure, put in chains, put in irons, clap in irons
OriginMiddle English: based on Latin cavea (see cage). The word came into English in two forms, jaiole from Old French and gayole from Anglo-Norman French gaole (surviving in the spelling gaol), originally pronounced with a hard g, as in goat. |