1. confinement(n = noun.state) childbed, labor, labour, lying-in, parturiency, travail - concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours"
is a kind of birth, birthing, giving birth, parturition
is a part of gestation, maternity, pregnancy
has parts: uterine contraction, effacement, asynclitism, obliquity
has particulars: premature labor, premature labour
2. confinement(n = noun.act) - the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them;
is a kind of restraint
has particulars: imprisonment, internment, house arrest, commitment, committal, consignment
Derived form verb confine5
3. confinement(n = noun.state) - the state of being confined; "he was held in confinement"
is a kind of subjection, subjugation
has particulars: constraint, restraint, captivity, immurement, imprisonment, incarceration, custody, detainment, detention, hold, solitary, solitary confinement
Derived form verb confine4
4. confinement(n = noun.act) restriction - the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary); "the restriction of the infection to a focal area"
is a kind of restraint
has particulars: classification, specification, stipulation, circumscription, constraint
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." [1913 Webster]
2. Restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by childbirth; lying-in. [1913 Webster]
confinement, n.
1 the act or an instance of confining; the state of being confined.
2 the time of a woman's giving birth.
N restraint, hindrance, coercion, cohibition, constraint, repression, suppression, discipline, control, confinement, durance, duress, imprisonment, incarceration, coarctation, entombment, mancipation, durance vile, limbo, captivity, blockade, arrest, arrestation, custody, keep, care, charge, ward, restringency, curb, lettres de cachet, limitation, restriction, protection, monopoly, prohibition, prisoner, repressionist, restrained, constrained, imprisoned, pent up, jammed in, wedged in, under lock and key, under restraint, under hatches, in swaddling clothes, on parole, in custody, doing time, cohibitive, coactive, stiff, restringent, strait-laced, hidebound, barkbound, ice bound, wind bound, weather bound, cabined cribbed confined, in Lob's pound, laid by the heels.
N production, creation, construction, formation, fabrication, manufacture, building, architecture, erection, edification, coinage, diaster, organization, nisus formativus, putting together, establishment, workmanship, performance, achievement, flowering, fructification, inflorescence, bringing forth, parturition, birth, birth-throe, childbirth, delivery, confinement, accouchement, travail, labor, midwifery, obstetrics, geniture, gestation, assimilation, evolution, development, growth, entelechy, fertilization, gemination, germination, heterogamy, genesis, generation, epigenesis, procreation, progeneration, propagation, fecundation, impregnation, albumen, spontaneous generation, archegenesis, archebiosis, biogenesis, abiogenesis, digenesis, dysmerogenesis, eumerogenesis, heterogenesis, oogenesis, merogenesis, metogenesis, monogenesis, parthenogenesis, homogenesis, xenogenesis, authorship, publication, works, opus, oeuvre, biogeny, dissogeny, xenogeny, tocogony, vacuolization, edifice, building, structure, fabric, erection, pile, tower, flower, fruit, produced, producing, productive of, prolific, creative, formative, genetic, genial, genital, pregnant, enceinte, big with, fraught with, in the family way, teeming, parturient, in the straw, brought to bed of, puerperal, puerperous, digenetic, heterogenetic, oogenetic, xenogenetic, ectogenous, gamic, haematobious, sporogenous, sporophorous, architectonic, ex nihilo nihil, fiat lux, materiam superabat opus, nemo dat quod non habet.
N circumscription, limitation, inclosure, confinement, circumvallation, encincture, envelope, container (receptacle), circumscribed, begirt, lapt, buried in, immersed in, embosomed, in the bosom of, imbedded, encysted, mewed up, imprisoned, landlocked, in a ring fence.