A Quick and Simple Dictionary

arrest

1. Noun.  A check, stop, an act or instance of arresting something.
2. Noun.  The condition of being stopped, standstill.
3. Noun.  (legal) The act of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.
4. Noun.  A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.
5. Noun.  A device to physically arrest motion.
6. Verb.  (obsolete, transitive) To stop the motion of (a person or animal). (defdate, 14th-19th c.) .
7. Verb.  (obsolete, intransitive) To stay, remain. (defdate, 14th-16th c.) .
8. Verb.  (transitive) To stop (a process, course etc.). (defdate, from 14th c.) .
9. Verb.  (transitive) To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody. (defdate, from 14th c.) .
10. Verb.  (transitive) To catch the attention of. (defdate, from 19th c.) .