DETENTION CELL Synonyms

• the state of being imprisoned

• the state of being a slave

• any small compartment

• (biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals

• a device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction

• a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement

• a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver

• small room in which a monk or nun lives

• a room where a prisoner is kept

• concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child

• the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them

• the state of being confined

• the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary)

• a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)

• lock up or confine, in or as in a jail

• jail in a local police station

• the act of locking something up to protect it

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

• a prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement

• a place on a baseball field where relief pitchers can warm up during a game

• a large cell where prisoners (people awaiting trial or sentence or refugees or illegal immigrants) are confined together temporarily

• a large cell where prisoners (people awaiting trial or sentence or refugees or illegal immigrants) are confined together temporarily