retain

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil Often followed by from: to hold back (someone or something); to check, to prevent, to restrain, to stop.
2. fiil To hold back (a pupil) instead of allowing them to advance to the next class or year; to keep back.
3. fiil Of a thing: to hold or keep (something) inside it; to contain.

   “water retained by a dam”

4. fiil To hold back (tissue or a substance, especially urine) in the body or a body organ.
5. fiil To hold (something) secure; to prevent (something) from becoming detached or separated.
6. fiil To keep (something) in control or possession; to continue having (something); to keep back.

   “Robert of Artoys baniſht though thou be, / From Fraunce thy natiue Country, yet with vs, / Thou ſhalt retayne as great a Seigniorie: / For vve create thee Earle of Richmond heere, […]”

7. fiil To keep (something) in the mind; to recall, to remember.

   “Or that ſvveet Song I heard vvith ſuch delight; / The ſame you ſung alone one ſtarry Night; / The Tune I ſtill retain, but not the VVords.”

8. fiil To keep (something) in place or use, instead of removing or abolishing it; to preserve.

   “And yet leſte any manne ſhould bee offended (whom good reaſon might ſatiſfie) here be certayne cauſes rendered, why ſome of the accuſtomed Ceremonies be put awaye, and ſome be retayned and kept ſtill.”

9. fiil To engage or hire (someone), especially temporarily.
10. fiil To employ (someone, especially a lawyer) by paying a retainer (“fee one pays to reserve another person's time for services”); specifically, to engage (a barrister) by making an initial payment to secure their services if needed.

    “It is vvell knovvn thou retaineſt thy Lavvyers by the Year, ſo a freſh Lavv-Suit adds but little to thy Expences; […]”

11. fiil To keep (someone) in one's pay or service; also, (chiefly historical) to maintain (someone) as a dependent or follower.

    “[H]e entruſted the government of the province to Archas Martin and Lupicaire, tvvo mercenary Brabançons, vvhom he had retained in his ſervice.”

12. fiil To control or restrain (oneself); to exercise self-control over (oneself).
13. fiil To keep (someone) in custody; to prevent (someone) from leaving.

    “There vvith the Nymph his mother, like her thrall; / VVho ſore againſt his vvill did him retaine, / For feare of perill, vvhich to him mote fall, / Through his too ventrous provveſſe proued ouer all.”

14. fiil To declare (a sin) not forgiven.

    “Receave the holy gooſt: whoſoevers ſynnes ye remyt⸝ they are remitted vnto them: And whoſoevers ſynnes ye retayne⸝ they are retayned.”

15. fiil To keep in control or possession; to continue having.

    “But an executor of his ovvn vvrong is not allovved to retain: for that vvould tend to encourage creditors to ſtrive vvho ſhould firſt take poſſeſſion of the goods of the deceaſed; and vvould beſides be taking advantage of their ovvn vvrong, vvhich is contrary to the rule of lavv.”

16. fiil To have the ability to keep something in the mind; to use the memory.

    “The things that make a good Judge, or good Interpreter of the Lavves, are, […] Fourthly, and laſtly, Patience to heare; diligent attention in hearing; and memory to retain, digeſt and apply vvhat he hath heard.”

17. fiil Of a body or body organ: to hold back tissue or a substance.
18. fiil To refrain from doing something.

    “[T]hey can ſcarce retaine from burſting foorth / In plaine reuolt.”

19. fiil To be a dependent or follower to someone.

    “He was reteynyng to Sergius Paulus, whiche was proconſull, that is to ſaye lieutenaunt, or the lorde deputie of that Yland, and was a wyſe man and of good experience.”

20. fiil To continue, to remain.

    “No more can impure man retaine and move / In that pure region of a vvorthy love: / Then earthly ſubſtance can unforc'd aſpire, / And leave his nature to converſe vvith fire: […]”

21. isim An act of holding or keeping something; a possession, a retention.
22. isim Synonym of retinue (“a group of attendants or servants, especially of someone considered important”).