arrest
part of speech
verb (arrest, arrests, arrested, arresting); noun (an arrest, arrests)
meaning for a pupil
1) To arrest someone is for the police to take them away because they may have broken the law. tree →
2) An arrest is when the police do this. tree →
3) To arrest can mean to stop something, like arresting the spread of a disease. tree →
4) Cardiac arrest is when the heart suddenly stops pumping properly. tree →
5) To arrest someone's attention is to catch it and hold it. tree →
sense in the lessons
In citizenship lessons, police officers arrest people they think have committed crimes, and then a court decides. In stories, the detective solves the mystery and the thief is arrested. In first aid, cardiac arrest is an emergency: call for help and use CPR and a defibrillator. Phrases: «under arrest», «make an arrest», «cardiac arrest».
examples
- The police arrested the thief. tree →
- «You're under arrest!» said the officer. tree →
- The police made two arrests after the robbery. tree →
- The man was arrested for stealing a car. tree →
- Doctors tried to arrest the spread of the disease. tree →
- Cardiac arrest means the heart has stopped beating properly. tree →
- In the story, the detective arrested the butler. tree →
- Being arrested does not always mean someone is guilty. tree →
- What arrested him was this reflection: tree →
note
Past form: arrested. Countable noun: an arrest. Trap: being arrested is not the same as being found guilty; a court decides that. «Arresting» as an adjective means very striking and eye-catching.
In the corpora
- Being arrested means the police think someone may have committed a crime and will question them; it is not yet proof.
- Jokes about bombs or weapons at an airport are treated as real threats, and people can be arrested for them.
- Real police do not ask for payment by message or phone; «pay or be arrested» messages are scare scams.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «arrest» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.