[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

confinement \confine"ment\, n.
   1. restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of
      liberty; seclusion.
      1913 webster

            the mind hates restraint, and is apt to fancy itself
            under confinement when the sight is pent up.
                                                  --addison.
      1913 webster

   2. restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by
      childbirth; lying-in.
      1913 webster

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

confinement
     n 1: concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to
          the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours"
          syn: parturiency, labor, labour, lying-in, travail,
           childbed
     2: the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining
        them
     3: the state of being confined; "he was held in confinement"
see also:
parturiency labor labour lying-in travail childbed 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

85 moby thesaurus words for "confinement":
   accouchement, beleaguerment, besetment, birth, birth throes,
   birthing, blessed event, blockade, blockading, boundary, bounds,
   childbearing, childbed, childbirth, circumscription, closeness,
   constraint, continence, cordoning, cramp, cramping, crowdedness,
   delivery, discipline, dismemberment, enclosure, envelopment,
   estrapade, galleys, genesis, giving birth, hair, hairbreadth,
   hairsbreadth, hard labor, hatching, having a baby, immurement,
   impalement, imprisonment, incapaciousness, incarceration,
   inclusion, incommodiousness, jailing, keelhauling, labor, limit,
   limitation, martyrdom, moderation, multiparity, narrow gauge,
   narrowness, nascency, nativity, nearness, parturition,
   penal servitude, picketing, prescription, proscription,
   qualification, quarantine, railriding, restrain, restraint,
   restrictedness, restriction, rock pile, siege, slenderness, stint,
   straitness, strappado, strictness, tar-and-feathering,
   the nativity, the gantlet, the stork, tight squeeze, tightness,
   torment, torture, travail

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...Columbus, NE Nebraska central confinement service ccs ltd animal confinement cow dairy milk hog pig swine pork chicken turkey.....CCS, has the reputation as the highest quality Animal Agriculture turnkey confinement.....Central Confinement Service specializes in large turnkey animal, swine, dairy, and poultry..
http://www.cencon.com/, score=100, date indexed=October 5, 2005, 11:40 pm

New England School of Law - New England Journal on Criminal and Civil...
...New England Journal on Criminal and Civil Confinement.. 46 Church Street.. Boston, MA.....Journal on Criminal and Civil Confinement.. Journal Links.. Archived Issues.. Vol.31, No..
http://www.nesl.edu/journal/, score=64, date indexed=October 5, 2005, 4:32 am

A Note on the Confinement Problem
...This does not mean that any program which works when free will still work under.....Taking this for granted, it is easy to state a rule which is sufficient to ensure.....We will call the problem of constraining a service in this way the confinement problem..
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~KeyKOS/Confinement.html, score=55, date indexed=October 5, 2005, 12:14 pm

Starpower: The U.S. and the International Quest for Fusion Energy (Part 12...
...weapon, inertial confinement experiments now con- has been studied for some two decades.....beyond the requirements for weapons effect simula- core of a magnetic confinement fusion.....2-microsecond Iifetime to make its own re- confinement research, but at a significantly..
http://www.wws.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/byteserv.prl/~ota/disk2/1987/8723/872312.PDF, score=48, date indexed=September 8, 2004, 6:48 am

The Inertial Confinement Fusion Concept
...Magnetic confinement fusion uses strong magnetic fields to confine the hydrogen, heated by.....Inertial Confinement Fusion is supported by the US Department of Energy Office of.....The Inertial Confinement Fusion Concept.. Fusion is the nuclear reaction that powers the..
http://fusion.gat.com/icf/concept/, score=47, date indexed=March 27, 2005, 2:16 am

Section 575-220 Failure to return to confinement.
...A person commits the crime of failure to return to confinement if, while serving a.....confinement which is not continuous, or while serving any other type of sentence for any.....2) The sentence being served is one of confinement in a county jail on conviction of a..
http://www.moga.state.mo.us/statutes/C500-599/5750000220.HTM, score=47, date indexed=February 21, 2005, 6:01 pm

...THE RESPONSE To reduce disproportionate minority confinement, the community must work.....Strategies to reduce the disproportionate confinement of minority juveniles include the.....States failing to address the overrepresentation of minority youth in confinement will be..
http://www.ncjrs.org/txtfiles/fs-9411.txt, score=47, date indexed=March 28, 2005, 9:59 pm

Definition of Confinement from dictionary.net
...The mind hates restraint, and is apt to fancy itself under confinement when the sight is.....1913 Webster] The mind hates restraint, and is apt to fancy itself under confinement when.....What does confinement mean?we found 3 entries for the meaning of confinement..
http://www.dictionary.net/confinement, score=46, date indexed=June 18, 2005, 2:58 am

Section 40-183 Sentence of confinement, where served-
...035, shall receive persons ordered into confinement before trial and persons committed to.....A sentence of confinement adjudged by a military court, whether or not the sentence.....confinement in any place of confinement under the control of any of the forces of the..
http://www.moga.state.mo.us/statutes/C000-099/0400000183.HTM, score=44, date indexed=February 24, 2005, 1:44 am

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