Air cell
() A cavity in the cellular tissue of plants, containing air only. |
Air cell
() A receptacle of air in various parts of the system |
Blanch holding
() A mode of tenure by the payment of a small duty in white rent (silver) or otherwise. |
Blench holding
() See Blanch holding. |
Cell
(n.) A very small and close apartment, as in a prison or in a monastery or convent |
Cell
(n.) A small religious house attached to a monastery or convent. |
Cell
(n.) Any small cavity, or hollow place. |
Cell
(n.) The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof. |
Cell
(n.) Same as Cella. |
Cell
(n.) A jar of vessel, or a division of a compound vessel, for holding the exciting fluid of a battery. |
Cell
(n.) One of the minute elementary structures, of which the greater part of the various tissues and organs of animals and plants are composed. |
Cell
(v. t.) To place or inclose in a cell. |
Custody
(n.) A keeping or guarding |
Custody
(n.) Judicial or penal safe-keeping. |
Custody
(n.) State of being guarded and watched to prevent escape |
Detention
(n.) The act of detaining or keeping back |
Detention
(n.) The state of being detained (stopped or hindered) |
Detention
(n.) Confinement |
Double-lock
(v. t.) To lock with two bolts |
Facility
(n.) The quality of being easily performed |
Facility
(n.) Ease in performance |
Facility
(n.) Easiness to be persuaded |
Facility
(n.) Easiness of access |
Facility
(n.) That which promotes the ease of any action or course of conduct |
Holding
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hold |
Holding
(n.) The act or state of sustaining, grasping, or retaining. |
Holding
(n.) A tenure |
Holding
(n.) That which holds, binds, or influences. |
Holding
(n.) The burden or chorus of a song. |
Lock
(n.) A tuft of hair |
Lock
(n.) Anything that fastens |
Lock
(n.) A fastening together or interlacing |
Lock
(n.) A place from which egress is prevented, as by a lock. |
Lock
(n.) The barrier or works which confine the water of a stream or canal. |
Lock
(n.) An inclosure in a canal with gates at each end, used in raising or lowering boats as they pass from one level to another |
Lock
(n.) That part or apparatus of a firearm by which the charge is exploded |
Lock
(n.) A device for keeping a wheel from turning. |
Lock
(n.) A grapple in wrestling. |
Lock
(v. t.) To fasten with a lock, or as with a lock |
Lock
(v. t.) To prevent ingress or access to, or exit from, by fastening the lock or locks of |
Lock
(v. t.) To fasten in or out, or to make secure by means of, or as with, locks |
Lock
(v. t.) To link together |
Lock
(v. t.) To furnish with locks |
Lock
(v. t.) To seize, as the sword arm of an antagonist, by turning the left arm around it, to disarm him. |
Lock
(v. i.) To become fast, as by means of a lock or by interlacing |
Lock-down
(n.) A contrivance to fasten logs together in rafting |
Lock hospital
() A hospital for the treatment of venereal diseases. |
Lock step
() A mode of marching by a body of men going one after another as closely as possible, in which the leg of each moves at the same time with the corresponding leg of the person before him. |
Lock stitch
() A peculiar sort of stitch formed by the locking of two threads together, as in the work done by some sewing machines. See Stitch. |
Lock-weir
(n.) A waste weir for a canal, discharging into a lock chamber. |
| cell | (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 |
apprehension
arrest
catch collar
pinch taking into custody | the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal), the policeman on the beat got credit for the collar |
| facility | a service that an organization or a piece of equipment offers you, a cell phone with internet facility |
| facility | something designed and created to serve a particular function and to afford a particular convenience or service, catering facilities, toilet facilities, educational facilities |
police work
police investigation | the investigation of criminal activities |
somatic cell nuclear transplantation
somatic cell nuclear transfer
SCNT
nuclear transplantation | moving a cell nucleus and its genetic material from one cell to another |
retention
keeping holding | the act of retaining something |
| lock | any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured |
hands
custody | (with `in') guardianship over, in divorce cases it is the right to house and care for and discipline a child, my fate is in your hands, too much power in the president's hands, your guests are now in my custody, the mother was awarded custody of the children |
| cell-mediated immune response | an immune response (chiefly against viral or fungal invasions or transplanted tissue) that involves T cells |
| police action | a local military action without declaration of war, against violators of international peace and order |
| custody | holding by the police, the suspect is in custody |
| detention | a punishment in which a student must stay at school after others have gone home, the detention of tardy pupils |
| custody case | a legal action to determine custody (usually of children following a divorce) |
| custody battle | litigation to settle custody of the children of a divorced couple |
| flame cell | organ of excretion in flatworms |
| flagellated cell | any cell or oneelled organism equipped with a flagellum |
choanocyte
collar cell | any of the flagellated cells in sponges having a collar of cytoplasm around the flagellum, they maintain a flow of water through the body |
German shepherd
German shepherd dog
German police dog
alsatian | breed of large shepherd dogs used in police work and as a guide for the blind |
| police dog | any dog trained to assist police especially in tracking |
air base
air station | a base for military aircraft |
airlock
air lock | a chamber that provides access to space where air is under pressure |
| athletic facility | a facility for athletic events |
beach wagon
station wagon
wagon estate car
beach waggon
station waggon
waggon | a car that has a long body and rear door with space behind rear seat |
booster booster amplifier
booster station
relay link
relay station
relay transmitter | an amplifier for restoring the strength of a transmitted signal |
broadcasting station
broadcast station | a station equipped to broadcast radio or television programs |
bullpen
detention cell
detention centre | a large cell where prisoners (people awaiting trial or sentence or refugees or illegal immigrants) are confined together temporarily |
bus terminal
bus depot
bus station
coach station | a terminal that serves bus passengers |
| cafeteria facility | (usually plural) facilities for providing food for employees or visitors |
cell
electric cell | a device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction |
cell jail cell
prison cell | a room where a prisoner is kept |
| cell cubicle | small room in which a monk or nun lives |
| cell | any small compartment, the cells of a honeycomb |
cellular telephone
cellular phone
cellphone
cell mobile phone | a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own shortange transmitter
receiver |
Clark cell
Clark standard cell | a form of voltaic cell once used as a standard for electromotive force |
| combination lock | lock that can be opened only by turning dials in a special sequence |
cruiser police cruiser
patrol car
police car
prowl car
squad car | a car in which policemen cruise the streets, equipped with radiotelephonic communications to headquarters |
| cylinder lock | a lock in which a cylinder rotates to move a bolt, tumblers are pins, inserting the key lifts and aligns the pins to free the cylinder to rotate |
detention home
detention house
house of detention
detention camp | an institution where juvenile offenders can be held temporarily (usually under the supervision of a juvenile court) |
dock
dockage
docking facility | landing in a harbor next to a pier where ships are loaded and unloaded or repaired, may have gates to let water in or out, the ship arrived at the dock more than a day late |
dressing station
aid station | (military) a station located near a combat area for giving first aid to the wounded |
| dry cell | a small Leclanche cell containing no free liquid, the electrolyte is a paste and the negative zinc pole forms the container of the cell, used in flashlights, portable radios, etc. |
| electrolytic cell | a cell containing an electrolyte in which an applied voltage causes a reaction to occur that would not occur otherwise (such as the breakdown of water into hydrogen and oxygen) |
facility
installation | a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry, the assembly plant is an enormous facility |
fire station
firehouse | a station housing fire apparatus and firemen |
| first-aid station | a station providing emergency care or treatment before regular medical aid can be obtained |
| fuel cell | cell that produces electricity by oxidation of fuel (hydrogen and oxygen or zinc and air), often used in electric cars |
gasoline station
gas station
filling station
petrol station | a service station that sells gasoline |
| holding cell | a jail in a courthouse where accused persons can be confined during a trial |
| holding device | a device for holding something |