Encierro in english
Confinement
pronunciation: kənfaɪnmənt part of speech: noun
pronunciation: kənfaɪnmənt part of speech: noun
In gestures
encerrar = enclose ; lock ; intern ; shut up ; closet ; hold + Alguien + prisoner ; coop up ; hem + Nombre + in ; pen ; lock up.
Example: The building encloses an art gallery, tourist office, conference room, concert hall and cinema.Example: If the analogy with the fairy story is taken a little further it can be noted that no author really believes in dragons, wicked queens, fair maidens locked in high towers and the like.Example: The Red Cross then established and ran a library for the about 500 asylum seekers who were interned on the ship awaiting police interviewing.Example: Certainly the last thing we want is that books be shut up in tastefully decorated warehouses, watched over by highly trained storekeepers whose main purpose is to see that everything is kept tidily in its place and, as far as possible, untouched by human hands -- especially the sticky-fingered hands of marauding children.Example: Too often guests are snatched up on arrival and closeted away from the children before being produced like a rabbit out of a hat for the 'official' appearance.Example: Tom Sutherland, a professor at the American University of Beirut, was kidnapped in 1985 and held prisoner for six and a half years, for much of the time shackled to his prisoner Terry Anderson.Example: We've all heard of road rage: being cooped up in a car on a crowded freeway with no means of escape.Example: The world of work is no longer constrained by the four physical dimensions of space and time that have hemmed us in for most of recorded history.Example: There's also goats, but I don't think they're penned anywhere -- they seem to have the run of the place as much as the chickens.Example: Rapists should be locked up and kept out of society where they can no longer harm innocent victims.more:
» encerrar a Alguien y tirar la llave = lock + Nombre + up and throw away the key .
Example: In my country we lock rapists up and throw away the key so they don't hurt anyone else.» encerrar bajo llave = lock up .
Example: Rapists should be locked up and kept out of society where they can no longer harm innocent victims.» encerrar con candado = padlock .
Example: The five captives told last night how they had been blindfolded by armed guards and padlocked in a room for most of a week.» encerrar en celda de aislamiento = place in + solitary confinement .
Example: As incarceration rates explode in the US, thousands are placed in solitary confinement, often without cause.» encerrar en una jaula = cage .
Example: Librarians can be caged too tightly in restrictive management structures, whereas rapid development is going ahead in less restricted contexts.» hora de encerrarse = curfew .
Example: Juvenile arrests for curfew and loitering violations increased 113 percent between 1990-99.encierro = lockup.
Example: They concluded that 'our citizens may rationally prefer to check crime and disorder by ounces of educational prevention, than by pounds of cure in the shape of large 'lockups' and expensive suits before the law'.