straitjacket

suomi-englanti sanakirja

straitjacket englannista suomeksi

1. pakkopaita

2. ahtaat paikat, ahdas paikka

0. Substantiivi

1. pakkopaita

1. Verbi

2. pukea pakkopaitaan">pukea pakkopaitaan

straitjacket englanniksi

1. A jacket-like garment with very long sleeves which can be secured in place, thus preventing the wearer from moving his or her arms. Often used in psychiatric hospitals to prevent patients from injuring themselves or others.

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2. Any situation seen as confining or restricting.

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3. 2009, Michael Giffin, ''Quadrant'', November 2009, No. 461 (Volume LIII, Number 11), Quadrant Magazine Limited, page 99:

If we remain in one discipline, we remain in a straitjacket; an adequate theory of language evolution requires a lot of interdisciplinary work.

4. To put someone into a straitjacket.

5. (quote-book) (quote-gloss)|chapter_plain=1|title=Concluding: A Novel|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=Press|The Viking Press|year_published=1950|page=11|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/concluding0000henr/page/11/mode/1up|oclc=1007330761|passage=What he asked himself now was,—could Miss Edge and Miss Baker, in order to get him out of the house, have set Birt onto Elizabeth, be in league with the man to break a poor old fellow down by simply driving his sad girl out of her wits? To have her straitjacketted even, muffled in a padded room?

6. To restrict the freedom of, either physically or psychologically.

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8. (quote-book) King|chapter=Politics, Economics, and Democracy|title=Explorations Beyond the Machine: A Philosophy of Social Science for the Post-Newtonian Age|series=Mamardashvili Series on Philosophy, Psychology and Sociology|location=Commack, N.Y.|publisher=Nova Science Publishers|section=part 4 (The “New” Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Politics, and Economics)|page=239|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/explorationsbeyo0000king/page/239/mode/1up|isbn=1-56072-155-3|passage=Encouraging, allowing for, and maintaining a plurality of viewpoints concerning public policy, for instance, adaptively (even though partially and incompletely) reduces the chances of a rigidly deterministic and reductionistic mindset maladaptively straitjacketting our abilities to deal with dynamic complexity and to appreciate the benefits of malleability and self-criticality in remaining open to the challenges of our environment.

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