prison

[pris·on]

A prison is a place where criminals and people waiting for trials are locked up. If you’ve been cooped up in the house, you might feel like you’re stuck inside prison walls. But if you’re not, go outside already.

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A place where persons are confined, or restrained of personal liberty; hence, a place or state o confinement, restraint, or safe custody.

Noun
a correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment

Noun
a prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement


n.
A place where persons are confined, or restrained of personal liberty; hence, a place or state o/ confinement, restraint, or safe custody.

n.
Specifically, a building for the safe custody or confinement of criminals and others committed by lawful authority.

v. t.
To imprison; to shut up in, or as in, a prison; to confine; to restrain from liberty.

v. t.
To bind (together); to enchain.


Prison

Pris"on (?; 277), n. [F., fr. L. prehensio, prensio, a seizing, arresting, fr. prehendre, prendere, to lay hold of, to seize. See Prehensile, and cf. Prize, n., Misprision.] 1. A place where persons are confined, or restrained of personal liberty; hence, a place or state o confinement, restraint, or safe custody.
Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name.
The tyrant '92olus, . . . With power imperial, curbs the struggling winds, And sounding tempests in dark prisons binds.
2. Specifically, a building for the safe custody or confinement of criminals and others committed by lawful authority. Prison bars, ∨ Prison base. See Base, n., 24. -- Prison breach. (Law) See Note under 3d Escape, n., 4. -- Prison house, a prison. Shak. -- Prison ship (Naut.), a ship fitted up for the confinement of prisoners. -- Prison van, a carriage in which prisoners are conveyed to and from prison.

Prison

Pris"on, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Prisoned ; p. pr. & vb. n. Prisoning.] 1. To imprison; to shut up in, or as in, a prison; to confine; to restrain from liberty.
The prisoned eagle dies for rage.
His true respect will prison false desire.
2. To bind (together); to enchain. [Obs.]
Sir William Crispyn with the duke was led Together prisoned.

A place where persons are confined, or restrained of personal liberty; hence, a place or state o confinement, restraint, or safe custody.

To imprison; to shut up in, or as in, a prison; to confine; to restrain from liberty.

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Usage Examples

I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison.

Detainee policy in this war is hard, it's complicated, but we must get it right. We would be better off as a nation if we could close Gitmo safely and start a new prison that he could use that the world would see as a better way to doing business.

I was in prison for a charge in Texas, murder one. Back in the '70s in Texas, I was there. I heard the shot. I was in the car.

I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.

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Other Usage Examples

I believe that being an actress or being involved in a movie has to be a life experience, otherwise why go for it? I have to change me, and I have to learn things, and I have to push me and my limits. By acting, I find a freedom inside of a prison in a way.

And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.

America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live up to them. But what I worry about are the 1 million black men in the prison system.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

His tenacity is unmatched in my opinion. Incredible how someone could have suffered that long and come back out of prison with such a good heart and positive things to say and do.

But you see, that's the gilded prison of fashion. We're riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely.

I mean, I was just one of the ones who got exposed, and because of the position I was in, where I was in my life, it went mainstream. A lot of people got out of it after my situation, not because I went to prison but because it was sad for them to see me go through something that was so pointless, that could have been avoided.

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