Definition of "bail" in 英语

noun

1. (countable, uncountable) Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial.

   • He was granted bail for £20000.

2. (law, UK) Release from imprisonment on payment of such money.

3. (law, UK) The person providing such payment.

4. A bucket or scoop used for removing water from a boat etc.

5. A person who bails water out of a boat.

6. (obsolete) Custody; keeping.

verb

1. To secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail.

2. (law) To release a person under such guarantee.

3. (law) To hand over personal property to be held temporarily by another as a bailment.

   • to bail cloth to a tailor to be made into a garment; to bail goods to a carrier

4. (nautical, transitive, intransitive) To remove (water) from a boat by scooping it out.

   • to bail water out of a boat
   • we had hard work to reach our haven, having to bail out the water with my straw hat.

5. (nautical, transitive) To remove water from (a boat) by scooping it out.

   • to bail a boat

6. To set free; to deliver; to release.

verb

1. (intransitive, slang) To leave or exit abruptly.

   • With his engine in flames, the pilot had no choice but to bail.
   • The Teacher Home Visit Program takes a huge commitment—time, energy, patience, diplomacy. Quite a few schools […] have tried it and bailed.

2. (intransitive, informal) To fail to meet a commitment (to a person). [with on ‘someone’]

noun

1. A hoop, ring or handle (especially of a kettle or bucket).

2. A stall for a cow (or other animal) (usually tethered with a semi-circular hoop).

   • 1953, British Institute of Management, Centre for Farm Management, Farm Management Association, Farm Managememt, 1960, John Wiley, page 160, More recently, the fixed bail, sometimes called the ‘milking parlour’, with either covered or open yards, has had a certain vogue and some very enthusiastic claims have been made for this method of housing.
   • 2011, Edith H. Whetham, Joan Thirsk, The Agrarian History of England and Wales, Volume 8: Volumes 1914-1939, page 191, Ten men thus sufficed for the milking of three hundred cows in five bails, instead of the thirty men who would normally have been employed by conventional methods.