detent's Usage Examples:

A municipal court building, a city jail and a children's detention house, all of stone, were erected, the first in 1912, the others in succeeding years, at a cost of "1,855,000.

That is why it important to fight against the detention and deportation of everyone - whether asylum seeker, overstayer or undocumented migrant.

center Bypass When any eq fader is in its center detent position, the filter is automatically bypassed, for optimum performance.

A 4-lb weight lodges the detent of the cut-off slide: The slide springs forward and cuts off the flow.

Such schools are for children up to the age of fourteen, and the limit of detention is sixteen.

Have I convinced you that replacing people with machines frees people from the bondage of doing machine work?And when the short brush is stopped a rod from the shaft frees a spring detent which keeps the drum in position and tips it over.

There are a score of cases of serious imprisonment, and a countless number of arrests and temporary detention.

detent escapement which needed no lubrication.

Invented the cylindrical balance spring and the detached detent escapement (1782 ).

Caesarea, indeed, as a city of mixed population and lying just outside Judaea proper - a place, moreover, where Timothy might have become known during Paul's two years' detention there - would satisfy many conditions of the problem.

In 1901 Bellary was chosen as one of the places of detention in India for Boer prisoners of war.

As the uppermost compartment fills, the weights end of the beam rises, and by means of a vertical rod suc - cessively operates on detents connected with the rotation of the two brushes, and stops them in turn.

Synonyms:

ratch, rachet, ratchet, click, catch, dog, stop, pawl,

Antonyms:

start, free, continuant consonant, begin, continue,