ARREST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does arrest mean? 

• ARREST (noun)
  The noun ARREST has 2 senses:

1. the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)

2. the state of inactivity following an interruption

  Familiarity information: ARREST used as a noun is rare.

• ARREST (verb)
  The verb ARREST has 4 senses:

1. take into custody

2. hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of

3. attract and fix

4. cause to stop

  Familiarity information: ARREST used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARREST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

apprehension; arrest; catch; collar; pinch; taking into custody

Context example:

the policeman on the beat got credit for the collar

Hypernyms ("arrest" is a kind of...):

capture; gaining control; seizure (the act of forcibly dispossessing an owner of property)

Derivation:

arrest (take into custody)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The state of inactivity following an interruption

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

arrest; check; halt; hitch; stay; stop; stoppage

Context example:

he spent the entire stop in his seat

Hypernyms ("arrest" is a kind of...):

inaction; inactiveness; inactivity (the state of being inactive)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "arrest"):

countercheck (a check that restrains another check)

logjam (any stoppage attributable to unusual activity)

• ARREST (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they arrest    ... he / she / it arrests   
Past simple: arrested   
Past participle: arrested   
-ing form: arresting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Take into custody

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

apprehend; arrest; collar; cop; nab; nail; pick up

Context example:

the police nabbed the suspected criminals

Hypernyms (to "arrest" is one way to...):

clutch; prehend; seize (take hold of; grab)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

arrest (the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Synonyms:

arrest; check; contain; hold back; stop; turn back

Context example:

Turn back the tide of communism

Hypernyms (to "arrest" is one way to...):

defend (be on the defensive; act against an attack)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "arrest"):

cut down; cut out (intercept (a player))

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Attract and fix

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

arrest; catch; get

Context example:

Catch the attention of the waiter

Hypernyms (to "arrest" is one way to...):

attract; draw; draw in; pull; pull in (direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Sense 4

Meaning:

Cause to stop

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

arrest; halt; hold

Context example:

halt the presses

Hypernyms (to "arrest" is one way to...):

stop (cause to stop)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

arrester (a restraint that slows airplanes as they land on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier)

 Context examples 

"I'll have you arrested, the pair of you, you b-b-big brutes," sobbed the erring soul.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Sheriff Lee said they arrested one person for urinating in public, technically indecent exposure.

(Millions don't turn up to 'storm' US airbase for extraterrestrial evidence, Wikinews)

This results in stabilizing and activating p53-dependent cell cycle arrest and apoptosis.

(Nutlin-3a, NCI Thesaurus)

They must have lost my track completely after their bludgeon-man was arrested.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It causes arrhythmogenic right ventricle cardiomyopathy (ARVC), which is a genetic disorder that predisposes patients to cardiac arrest and is a major cause of unexpected death in seemingly healthy young people.

(Gene Causes Sudden Death in Young People, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A reduction in adenosine interferes with DNA, RNA, and ATP biosynthesis and can cause cell cycle arrest.

(Adenylosuccinate Synthetase Inhibitor, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon intravenous injection, docetaxel binds to and stabilizes tubulin, which inhibits microtubule disassembly and results in both cell cycle arrest at the G2/M phase and cell death.

(Nanosomal Docetaxel Lipid Suspension, NCI Thesaurus)

Docetaxel binds to and stabilizes tubulin, thereby inhibiting microtubule disassembly which results in cell-cycle arrest at the G2/M phase and cell death.

(Nanoparticle Albumin-Bound Docetaxel, NCI Thesaurus)

Inhibition of amidophosphoribosyltransferase inhibits DNA synthesis and results in cell cycle arrest.

(Amidophosphoribosyltransferase Inhibitor, NCI Thesaurus)

An antimitotic agent that binds to tubulin and inhibits tubulin polymerization and arrests proliferation of tumor cells.

(Allocolchicine, NCI Thesaurus)