Prison vs. Pokey — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Prison and Pokey
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Prison
A prison, also known as a jail or gaol (dated, British, Australian, and historically in Canada), penitentiary (American English and Canadian English), detention center (or detention centre outside the US), correction center, correctional facility, lock-up or remand center is a facility in which inmates (or prisoners) are confined and denied a variety of freedoms under the authority of the state as punishment for various crimes. Prisons are most commonly used within a criminal justice system: people charged with crimes may be imprisoned until their trial; those pleading or being found guilty of crimes at trial may be sentenced to a specified period of imprisonment.
Pokey
A jail or prison.
Prison
A place for the confinement and punishment of persons convicted of crimes, especially felonies.
Pokey
Dawdling; slow
Waited for the poky sales clerk to ring up the sale.
Prison
A state of imprisonment or captivity
Years spent in prison.
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Pokey
Frumpish; shabby
Found poky old clothes at the thrift store.
Prison
A place or condition of confinement or restriction
Felt his job had been a prison.
Pokey
Small and cramped
A poky but inexpensive apartment.
Prison
To confine in or as if in a prison; imprison.
Pokey
Variant of poky1.
Prison
A place or institution where people are held against their will, especially for long-term confinement of those awaiting trial or convicted of serious crimes or otherwise considered undesirable by the government.
The cold stone walls of the prison had stood for over a century.
Pokey
Of small volume, cramped
Prison
(uncountable) Confinement in prison.
Prison was a harrowing experience for him.
Pokey
(slang) slow
Prison
Any restrictive environment, such as a harsh academy or home.
The academy was a prison for many of its students because of its strict teachers.
Pokey
Fast
Prison
(transitive) To imprison.
Pokey
Prison.
Prison
A place where persons are confined, or restrained of personal liberty; hence, a place or state o confinement, restraint, or safe custody.
Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name.
The tyrant Æolus, . . . With power imperial, curbs the struggling winds,And sounding tempests in dark prisons binds.
Pokey
Knife.
Prison
Specifically, a building for the safe custody or confinement of criminals and others committed by lawful authority.
Pokey
See Poky.
Prison
To imprison; to shut up in, or as in, a prison; to confine; to restrain from liberty.
The prisoned eagle dies for rage.
His true respect will prison false desire.
Pokey
A slang term for jail
Prison
To bind (together); to enchain.
Sir William Crispyn with the duke was ledTogether prisoned.
Pokey
Wasting time
Prison
A correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment
Pokey
Small and remote and insignificant;
A jerkwater college
Passed a series of poky little one-horse towns
Prison
A prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement
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