Jail vs. Vail

Jailnoun

A place or institution for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody or detention, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding.

Vailnoun

(obsolete) Profit; return; proceeds.

Jailnoun

(uncountable) Confinement in a jail.

Vailnoun

Money given to servants by visitors; a gratuity; also vale.

Jailnoun

(horse racing) The condition created by the requirement that a horse claimed in a claiming race not be run at another track for some period of time (usually 30 days).

Vailnoun

(obsolete) Submission.

Jailnoun

In dodgeball and related games, the area where players who have been struck by the ball are confined.

Vailverb

To pay homage, bow, submit, defer (to someone or something); to yield, give way (to something).

Jailnoun

A kind of sandbox for running a guest operating system instance.

Vailverb

To remove as a sign of deference, as a hat.

Jailverb

To imprison.

Vailverb

To lower, let fall; to allow or cause to sink.

Jailnoun

A kind of prison; a building for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding.

‘This jail I count the house of liberty.’;

Vailverb

(vexillology) To lower or "dip" a carried banner in a salute by a forward reducing of the angle of the pike/flagstaff with respect to the ground; in extreme instances, as when saluting a monarch, both the finial of the pike and the banner are allowed to rest upon the ground.

Jailverb

To imprison.

‘[Bolts] that jail you from free life.’;

Vailverb

archaic form of veil

Jailnoun

a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)

Vailverb

misspelling of veil

Jailverb

lock up or confine, in or as in a jail;

‘The suspects were imprisoned without trial’; ‘the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life’;

Vailnoun

Same as Veil.

Vailnoun

Avails; profit; return; proceeds.

‘My house is as 'twere the cave where the young outlaw hoards the stolen vails of his occupation.’;

Vailnoun

An unexpected gain or acquisition; a casual advantage or benefit; a windfall.

Vailnoun

Money given to servants by visitors; a gratuity; - usually in the plural.

Vailnoun

Submission; decline; descent.

Vailverb

To let fall; to allow or cause to sink.

‘Vail your regardUpon a wronged, I would fain have said, a maid!’;

Vailverb

To lower, or take off, in token of inferiority, reverence, submission, or the like.

‘France must vail her lofty-plumed crest!’; ‘Without vailing his bonnet or testifying any reverence for the alleged sanctity of the relic.’;

Vailverb

To yield or recede; to give place; to show respect by yielding, uncovering, or the like.

‘Thy convenience must vail to thy neighbor's necessity.’;