[みや,
miya] (n) (1) palace; (2) (See 五音) tonic (of the Japanese & Chinese pentatonic scale); (3) (abbr) (See 宮刑) ancient Chinese punishment (castration for men,
or confinement for women); (n,
n-suf) (4) (See 十二宮) zodiacal sign [Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Confinement \Con*fine"ment\, n.
1. Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of
liberty; seclusion.
[1913 Webster]
The mind hates restraint, and is apt to fancy itself
under confinement when the sight is pent up.
--Addison.
[1913 Webster]
2. Restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by
childbirth; lying-in.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
confinement
n 1: concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of
contractions to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for
six hours" [syn: {parturiency}, {labor}, {labour},
{confinement}, {lying-in}, {travail}, {childbed}]
2: the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining
them
3: the state of being confined; "he was held in confinement"
4: the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by
force if necessary); "the restriction of the infection to a
focal area" [syn: {restriction}, {confinement}]
แสดงได้ทั้งความหมายของคำเดี่ยว และคำผสม ได้อย่างถูกต้อง
เช่น Secretary of State=รัฐมนตรีต่างประเทศของสหรัฐฯ (ในภาพตัวอย่าง),
High school=โรงเรียนมัธยมปลาย
