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UK
/ɹɪtˈeɪnd/
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[ US /ɹiˈteɪnd, ɹɪˈteɪnd/ ]
[ US /ɹiˈteɪnd, ɹɪˈteɪnd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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continued in your keeping or use or memory
in...the retained pattern of dancers and guests remembered
How To Use retained In A Sentence
- This gas absorbs visible light so well that plants could not photosynthesize even if they somehow retained their leaves.
- B.C. 117) is already indicative of the "fossilization" of Chinese writing, Huan K'uan at least in his liberal use of the binome retained touch with the spoken language. Discourses On Salt and Iron
- Trip steels have a microstructure with retained austenite, ferrite and martensite.
- State officials retained considerable economic control and allowed uneconomic factories and mines to continue operating.
- ‘I'm sure the retained men are not valued as highly but they work 12 hours and then are on call - if those bleepers go then they have to race to the station, perhaps to save someone's life,’ he said.
- The Stabat Mater has been retained as an optional Sequence for September 15 in the reformed Roman Missal and as the hymn for the Office of Readings, Morning Prayer, and Evening Prayer in the new Liturgy of Hours. Archive 2009-04-01
- My hair was matted and wild -- my limbs soiled with salt ooze; while at sea, I had thrown off those of my garments that encumbered me, and the rain drenched the thin summer-clothing I had retained -- my feet were bare, and the stunted reeds and broken shells made them bleed -- the while, I hurried to and fro, now looking earnestly on some distant rock which, islanded in the sands, bore for a moment a deceptive appearance -- now with flashing eyes reproaching the murderous ocean for its unutterable cruelty. III.9
- This soft retained austenite can accommodate impact stresses better than the harder constituents.
- Much of this additional nitrogen is retained or denitrified in the watershed, but a substantial amount enters groundwater and rivers and eventually is delivered to estuaries and the ocean.
- Special platforms were built for the leadsman, but the term chains was retained.