(v. t.) To restrain from proceeding; to stay or stop; to delay; as, we were detained by an accident.
(v. t.) To hold or keep in custody.
(n.) Detention.
Example Sentences:
(1) They had allegedly agreed that Younous would not be charged with any crime upon his arrival there and that he would not be detained in Morocco for longer than 72 hours.
(2) "We do not yet live in a society where the police or any other officers of the law are entitled to detain people without reasonable justification and demand their papers," Gardiner wrote.
(3) A number of asylum seekers detained in the family camp on Nauru have begun peaceful protests over conditions at the centre.
(4) Gwendolen Morgan, the lawyer at Bindmans dealing with the case, said: "We have grave concerns about the decision to use this draconian power to detain our client for nine hours on Sunday – for what appear to be highly questionable motives, which we will be asking the high court to consider.
(5) He was often detained and occasionally beaten when he returned to Minsk for demonstrations, but “if he thought it was professional duty to uncover something, he did that no matter what threats were made,” Kalinkina said.
(6) Another source inside the centre, quoted earlier on the Detained Voices blog, said detainees had banged on their doors throughout the lockdown.
(7) China's best-known artist Ai Weiwei has been detained at Beijing airport this morning and police have surrounded his studio in the capital.
(8) But under his government the security forces killed more than 2,000 people, and an estimated 25,000 people were detained without trial and often tortured.
(9) As for his detention following a possible conviction … although Mr Aswat would have access to mental health services regardless of which prison he was be detained in, his extradition to a country where he had no ties and where he would face an uncertain future in an as yet undetermined institution, and possibly be subjected to the highly restrictive regime in ADX Florence, would violate article 3 of the convention."
(10) Filmmaker John Greyson and medic Tarek Loubani were arrested during disturbances in Cairo on 16 August, and detained without charge ever since.
(11) Seventeen lightly wounded were detained in the EH and 4 underwent life-saving surgery there.
(12) No one has been able to contact him or his friend Wen Tao, who was detained on the same day.
(13) The Shah's secret police – Savak – became increasingly brutal, ultimately detaining without trial and torturing tens of thousands of Iranian citizens.
(14) In October 2014 an Aboriginal woman died while being detained for mandatory alcohol treatment .
(15) Social workers were branded as communists and detained till they confessed, often after coercive treatment.
(16) A Tamil asylum seeker, speaking on condition on anonymity, fears being re-detained or deported: We are scared to go and meet the government.
(17) He was first deemed medically unfit to be detained in October, but has remained in custody.
(18) He was returned to Kuala Lumpur where he was detained by Malaysian immigration officials.
(19) I will not find out the charge until I go to trial, so I just do not know.” Fowle, a 56-year-old equipment operator for the city of Moraine, Ohio, said he was originally detained at a large tourist hotel in Pyongyang and later moved to what he described as a suite-style room in a guest house, which he did not name.
(20) That’s in the normal range, but should it go to 37.5 you may be whisked off to a holding centre as a suspect Ebola case, where – even if your fever is flu or more likely here, malaria – you will be detained with people who really do have this dangerously contagious virus.
Detrain
Definition:
(v. i. & t.) To alight, or to cause to alight, from a railway train.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tissue samples were obtained from m. vastus lateralis using the biopsy technique before and after 19 weeks of training, and after four weeks of detraining.
(2) An additional ten subjects terminated training and acted as controls (detraining group).
(3) These results suggest that physical training increases insulin action, and that this effect could be reversed to the control levels within 38 h after detraining.
(4) The purpose of this study was to measure the effects of a 10 week training, 3 week detraining cycle upon heart, muscle and adipose tissue of the rat.
(5) Results indicate that changes in lipids stores associated with starvation and refeeding and exercise and detraining are not associated with similar changes in enzyme activity.
(6) Whether the differences in the post-pubertal groups due to a detraining effect in the post-pubertal control boys (as compared to the pre-pubertal control group) or to a continued high level of physical activity during and after the on-set of puberty in trained boys cannot be answered by this study.
(7) These may persist in diminishing degree for several weeks, but have to be weighed against the detraining effect produced by the repeated venesection required to obtain an adequate amount of stored blood for autologous reinfusion.
(8) Healthy males were examined before and after 12 weeks of accommodated resistance training (three week-1) and after 12 weeks of detraining.
(9) We conclude that the relatively high VO2max in the detrained Thoroughbred racehorse is dependent on the generation of a large C(a-v)O2, despite development of hypoxaemia and haemoglobin desaturation, during strenuous exercise.
(10) There were no significant changes in systolic diameter or function and left ventricular wall thicknesses were unchanged during training, but were thinned after 2 weeks subsequent detraining.
(11) Training-induced strength gains appear to decay during detraining, and maintenance training consisting of only one training session per week appears to be ineffective in preserving prior strength gains.
(12) The parallel findings of decreased in vivo insulin action and decreased insulin binding in young erythrocytes suggest that modulation of in vivo insulin response by detraining may be at least partially mediated by changes in insulin receptor number.
(13) They increased during detraining but not to levels seen in UT.
(14) Hormonal responses to insulin-induced hypoglycemia were studied in seven endurance-trained young male athletes at the onset and the termination of a 31- to 44-day period of detraining necessitated by a sports injury that required leg casting.
(15) A decrease in enzyme activity occurred after 5 weeks detraining.
(16) Half the number of subjects were restudied after a four-month detraining period.
(17) Similar to GLUT4, citrate synthase activity showed no change after 1 day or 1 week of training, increased 1.8-fold over controls after 6 weeks of training, but returned to control values after 7 days detraining.
(18) Whether this detraining is an inevitable factor associated with pregnancy or whether exercising throughout pregnancy can ameliorate the decline in aerobic capacity postpartum is uncertain.
(19) All the enzymes that responded to the first training protocol maintained their elevated activities over the detraining period except for the enzyme oxoglutarate dehydrogenase.
(20) While deficient exercise performance of sick children results from hypoactivity and detraining, it can also be caused by specific pathophysiological factors.