Confinement

Definition

confine /kǝn'faÇn/ v ၁။ ~ sb/sth to sth ကန္႔သတ္သည္။ နယ္ သတ္သည္။ ေဘာင္ခတ္သည္။ I wish the speaker would confine himself to the subject. ❍ Confine your criticism to matters you understand. ၂။ ~ sb/sth (in/to sth) ပိတ္ေလွာင္သည္။ အက်ဥ္းခ်သည္။ အခ်ဳပ္အခ်ယ္ အကန္႔အသတ္ ႏွင့္ထားသည္။ Isn't it cruel to confine a bird in a cage? ❍ After her operation, she was confined to bed for a week. ❍ I would hate to be confined in an office all day. ❏ confined adj က်ဥ္းက်ဳတ္ေသာ။ It was difficult to work efficiently in such a confined space. ❏ confinement n ၁။ [U] အက်ဥ္းက်ျခင္း။ ခ်ဳပ္ေလွာင္ ထားျခင္း။ to be placed in confinement (ie in a prison, mental hospital, etc) ❍ He was sentenced to three months' solitary confinement . သူ သံုးလ(ေထာင္ထဲမွာ) တိုက္ပိတ္ခံရတယ္။ ၂။ [U, C] မီးဖြားျခင္း။ မီးတြင္း။ Her confinement was approaching. ❍ a home confinement (ie a birth taking place at the mother's home rather than in hospital).

Examples

1. [be confined to someone/something] : Before 1914 divorce was largely confined to the upper classes.
2. The risk of infection is confined to relatively small groups.
3. [confine something to something] : I shall attempt to confine the discussion to broad principles.
4. [confine someone to something] : Many prisoners are confined to their cells for long periods of time.
5. [confine someone to something] : Ill health kept him confined to his room.
6. [confine something to something] : They managed to confine the fire to the engine room.