Synonym: custody, detainment, hold. Similar words: pretentious, pretentiousness, intention, attention, abstention, distention, contention, pay attention. Meaning: [dɪ'tenʃn] 
n. 1. a state of being confined (usually for a short time) 2. a punishment in which a student must stay at school after others have gone home.
n. 1. a state of being confined (usually for a short time) 2. a punishment in which a student must stay at school after others have gone home. 
Random good picture Not show
151. The verdict against the seven Bahai leaders was harsh, even by Iranian standards, and came after almost two years of arbitrary detention in Tehran's notorious Evin prison.
152. For a convict sentenced to criminal detention, the detention house shall execute the sentence.
153. A wrongful detention or a false imprisonment and a misjudged criminal case often have something to do with each other, but indeed they are quite different in concepts.
154. It is the key work of custody to control prisoners' trend , prevent the happenings of all kinds of accidents and develop protracted and effective mechanism in detention house.
155. We should establish distributary detention system, separated arresting system, judicial investigation system to detention and separated system of investigation organs and detention house.
156. He was in detention in connection with the bribery affair.
157. So many reasons induce demand information deviation, the detention of transfer time and the customer demand fluctuation is the most primary factor.
158. The military junta would then quietly extend Suu Kyi's detention well beyond next year's planned elections, they feared.
159. I was an interrogator at the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
160. Such an offence shall be punished by detention in prison or at hard labour.
161. He evaded about 20 reporters waiting for him outside the detention centre.
162. He was originally sentenced to three years in a youth detention centre,[www.Sentencedict.com] reduced on appeal to 194 days' detention and an 18-month supervision order on release.
163. She prefers to stay in detention rather than be released and go into exile.
164. a sentence of 12 months' detention in a young offender institution.
165. The short detention time is aggravated by improper chewing of food.
166. The detention time in the intestine is too short to complete hydrolysis.
167. It is while they are in secret detention in barracks operated by the DRS that detainees are most at risk of torture and other ill-treatment .
168. Some patients claimed that the treating sexologist had explicitly told them that surgical castration was the only available option to them and that refusal would mean lifelong detention.
169. They have been held in detention since the end of June.
170. "We will close the Guantanamo Bay detention camp and determine how to deal with those who are held there, " said President Obama.
171. He talked of beginning to leave Iraq, and rejected a "false" choice between safety and democratic ideals, referring to the torture and detention policies of the grey-haired Mr Bush sitting nearby.
172. HAUNTING Chinese poems speaking of pain are still visible on the faded walls of the old detention centre on Angel Island in San Francisco Bay.
173. You wish to make a motion to lift the order of detention?
174. The fifth part mainly elaborates the importance and the necessity of the in-step supervision in the detention house's commuting sentences.
More similar words: pretentious, pretentiousness, intention, attention, abstention, distention, contention, pay attention, intentionally, detente, pay attention to, a bone of contention, sententiously, constitutional convention, contentious, mention, invention, convention, prevention, not to mention, ventilation, aforementioned, intervention, conventional, identification, unconventional, deterrent, potential, attentive, surface tension.