Retention

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The act of retaining.
  • n. The condition of being retained.
  • n. Capacity or power of retaining.
  • n. An ability to recall or recognize what has been learned or experienced; memory.
  • n. Something retained.
  • n. Involuntary withholding of bodily wastes or secretions that are normally eliminated.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The act of retaining or something retained
  • n. The act or power of remembering things
  • n. A memory, what is retained in the mind
  • n. The involuntary withholding of urine and faeces
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of retaining, or the state of being ratined.
  • n. The power of retaining; retentiveness.
  • n. That which contains something, as a tablet; a ���� of preserving impressions.
  • n. The act of withholding; retraint; reserve.
  • n. Place of custody or confinement.
  • n. The right of withholding a debt, or of retaining property until a debt due to the person claiming the right be duly paid; a lien.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of retaining or keeping back; restraint; reserve.
  • n. The act of retaining or holding as one's own; continued possession or ownership.
  • n. Continuance or perseverance, as in the use or practice of anything; preservation.
  • n. The act of retaining or keeping in mind; especially, that activity of the mind by which it retains ideas; the retentive faculty: often used as synonymous with memory.
  • n. Hence That which retains impressions, as a tablet.
  • n. In medicine:
  • n. The power of retaining, as in the stomach or bladder; inability to void or discharge: as, the retention of food or medicine by the stomach; retention of urine.
  • n. Hence— A morbid accumulation of solid or liquid matter in vessels of the body or cavities intended to contain it only for a time.
  • n. The state of being confined; custody; confinement.
  • n. In Scots law, a lien; the right of withholding a debt or retaining property until a debt due to the person claiming this right is duly paid.
  • n. Synonyms Reservation, preservation. See keep.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the power of retaining and recalling past experience
  • n. the power of retaining liquid
  • n. the act of retaining something
    • Cross Reference
    retention cyst    retention of urine    special retention   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    retentiveness    retraint    reserve    lien    keeping   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Ascension    Laurentian    apprehension    ascension    attention   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    absorption    accumulation    storage    acquisition    preservation   
     
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