jail vs let go

jail

verb
  • To imprison. 

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

  • Confinement in a jail. 

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

  • A place or institution for the confinement of persons held against their will in lawful custody or detention, especially (in US usage) a place where people are held for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding. 

  • 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). 

let go

verb
  • To release from one's grasp; to go from a state of holding on to a state of no longer holding on. 

  • To dismiss from employment. 

  • To ignore (a comment, etc.). 

  • To emotionally disengage or to distract oneself from a situation. 

  • To fail to maintain a standard of appearance, behavior, or performance. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see let, go. 

  • To gain weight 

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