What's the difference between encage and imprison?

Encage


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To confine in a cage; to coop up.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Depending on the encagement conditions, residual activities were in the range of 18% to 96% with higher values in the presence of cofactors.
  • (2) The fast relaxing protons are attributed to water molecules encaged within two or more haemoglobin molecules which associate for times long enough on the PMR time-scale.
  • (3) A feasibility study aimed at stabilization of L-lactate-dehydrogenase, L-malate-dehydrogenase, alcohol-dehydrogenase and diaphorase by the recently described method of enzyme 'encagement' was conducted.
  • (4) At the end of the treatment, the mice were encaged with males and their reproductive capacity was recorded over a 19-week period.
  • (5) In turn each CAB was encaged by a discontinuous rim that costained with antibodies to vinculin and talin.
  • (6) They, like other vertebrates have highly sensitive sensory organs which react to stress through transport, encaging, pollution, and other similar factors.
  • (7) The charity has over the years taken a strong position against Israel's illegal settlement construction at the same time as it has worked to deliver much-needed goods and services to the encaged population in the occupied Palestinian territories .
  • (8) Encagement conditions were optimized for each of the four enzymes, so as to achieve the highest thermal stability combined with highest catalytic activity.
  • (9) That is the view of every Assange defender with a platform that I know of, including me (one can certainly find anonymous internet commenters, or the occasional named one, making actual, horrific rape apologist claims, but one can find stray advocates saying anything; imputing those views to Assange defenders generally would be like claiming that all Assange critics want to see him illegally shot in the head or encaged for life because some prominent American and other commentators have called for this ).

Imprison


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To put in prison or jail; To arrest and detain in custody; to confine.
  • (v. t.) To limit, restrain, or confine in any way.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Under any other circumstances, a penalty of life imprisonment could be imposed on both the woman undergoing the abortion and anyone assisting her – even if the abortion is sought because of a fatal foetal impairment, for example, or because the pregnancy is the result of rape.
  • (2) This time, as a journalist covering the event, I was arrested on the high seas, briefly imprisoned and interrogated on Mururoa itself while the tests continued.
  • (3) And so, through Trove’s archived newspapers, I’ve found Harry – the mission boy who saw the Japanese at Caledon Bay imprison women, girls and old men in the trepang smokehouse, before raping the women in the bush.
  • (4) My idea in Orientalism was to use humanistic critique to open up the fields of struggle, to introduce a longer sequence of thought and analysis to replace the short bursts of polemical, thought-stopping fury that so imprison us.
  • (5) Harnessing its greatest asset – its authors – PEN is planning to publish an open letter to each of the five imprisoned writers every day this week, in the run up to the 33rd annual Day of the Imprisoned Writer on 15 November.
  • (6) For a time, his father was imprisoned and the family banished from Prague.
  • (7) The Meikhtila district chairman, Tin Maung Soe, said one Buddhist man was sentenced to five years' imprisonment on Thursday for causing grievous harm in connection with the killing of two Muslim men.
  • (8) Data were obtained from 41 survivors of imprisonment by the Japanese during World War II.
  • (9) The "consultation" and "informed consent" the reports insist must take place before the project goes ahead are a sick joke in a region in which dissent is ruthlessly crushed and people are imprisoned and tortured simply for speaking their own language.
  • (10) If somebody who has participated in fighting in a foreign civil war returns to Australia, they can be arrested, they could be charged with an offence which carries a maximum penalty of imprisonment for 25 years.
  • (11) The policies of zero tolerance equip local and federal law-enforcement with increasingly autocratic powers of coercion and surveillance (the right to invade anybody's privacy, bend the rules of evidence, search barns, stop motorists, inspect bank records, tap phones) and spread the stain of moral pestilence to ever larger numbers of people assumed to be infected with reefer madness – anarchists and cheap Chinese labour at the turn of the 20th century, known homosexuals and suspected communists in the 1920s, hippies and anti-Vietnam war protesters in the 1960s, nowadays young black men sentenced to long-term imprisonment for possession of a few grams of short-term disembodiment.
  • (12) But while the imprisoned activists and their supporters are fervently hoping that the Queen of Pop will use her Russian platform (Olimpiyskiy stadium, which is a pretty big one) to make a strong statement in their support, so far all she's been able to muster in public is a remark that she's "sorry that they've been arrested".
  • (13) He said he did not oppose the criminalisation of homosexuality but said imprisonment and the death penalty are too harsh.
  • (14) These had such a chilling effect on the provision of abortion that the number carried out by medical staff collapsed in the face of warnings about long terms of imprisonment for those deemed to have broken the law .
  • (15) The number of those imprisoned rose dramatically in 2015, nearly doubling after Sisi’s administration assumed power.
  • (16) She told the court she would not be broken by imprisonment, even if she had to spend 15 or 20 years behind bars, and issued a number of defiant statements from detention.
  • (17) The other seven Australians in the group were sentenced to life imprisonment in Indonesia.
  • (18) So while she is not directly responsible for Sieh's imprisonment, there's not a lot of incentive to get him out either.
  • (19) Originally a member of Yasser Arafat's Fatah, in 1982 he was imprisoned.
  • (20) Guardian Australia has been told some of the men imprisoned were taken from the Manus centre’s secret solitary confinement cells, the Chauka isolation unit.

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