jail
IPA: dʒˈeɪɫ
noun
- A place or institution for the confinement of persons held against their will in lawful custody or detention, especially (in US usage) a place where people are held for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding.
- (uncountable) Confinement in a jail.
- (horse racing, uncountable) 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, usually uncountable) A kind of sandbox for running a guest operating system instance.
verb
- To imprison.
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Examples of "jail" in Sentences
- The bibulous man went into jail.
- The two spent the night in jail.
- The officer was jailed for the offence.
- The rabble was arrested and sent to the jail.
- All rebels were arrested and sent to the jail.
- At the time this was the safest jail in the state.
- It is the massacre of unarmed and helpless prisoners in jails.
- In some places, the Undersheriff is the prison warden of the county jail.
- The jail was run by Amazons, who were impregnating the prisoners and selling their babies.
- Police want a judge to jail a local vagrant for his inability to avoid police contact and remain arrest free.