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    [Verb]  | "re*frain" | \ ri-ˈfrān \


    1: curb, restrain

    2: to keep oneself from doing, feeling, or indulging in something and especially from following a passing impulse


    Origin: 14th century ;

     Middle English refreynen, from Anglo-French refreiner, refreindre, from Latin refrenare, from re- + frenum bridle {mat|frenum|};

    [Noun]  | "refrainment" 


    1: the checking of one's true feelings and impulses when dealing with others;


      * e.g., " ... students in the class should show some generosity and refrainment when critiquing the work of their fellow photographers "





    [Verb]  | "refrain (from)" 


    1: to resist the temptation of;


      * e.g., " ... couldn't refrain from ruffling her nephew's neatly combed hair whenever she saw him "





     [ "Refrain" ]

    1: To stop. Often followed by 'from'. 'Refrain' is usually used when speaking about human action.

      * e.g.,  ... "Please refrain from using your cell phone in the restaurant, ma'am." 

     [ "refrain" ]

    1: In a song, a verse that is repeated regularly and often. Applicable to anything repeated with frequency and regularity.

      * e.g.,  ... "We all lived in a yellow submarine, a yellow submarine, a yellow submarine..." 


     [ "refrain" ]

    2: Also to avoid taking an action, usually with some conflict.

      * e.g.,  ... Jennifer Lopez refrained from firing her personal aid even though her aid had brought her the wrong kind of coke twice now. 

     [ "refraine" ]

    1: the command form of "to refrain", "to stop"

      * e.g.,  ... when you want someone to stop doing something you say: 

     [ "refraining order" ]

    1: A refraining order is when someone tells you not to say something to someone other than yourself.

      * e.g.,  ... Suzy: You better not comment on my sister's fat ass again. You're under a temporary 'refraining order' until we leave her house. 

     [ "Please to refrain" ]

    1: Tabrizi proverb (made famous by Qalandar of Tabriz) To cease, desist, stop whatever it is you're saying or doing. A badass thing to say to someone when you want to lay the smackdown on them.

      * e.g.,  ... Maajid Nawaz, please to refrain. You being defecations. 

     [ "Refraining Order" ]

    1: A legal document that makes you stop singing that same part of that song over and over again.

      * e.g.,  ... By the end of the hike, we were ready to slap Paul with a refraining order to get him to stop singing Mr. Jones. 

     [ "Bop-type Refrain" ]

    1: An extremely esoteric nickname for cocaine. In the original lyrics to the Cole Porter classic showtune "I Get a Kick Out of You", the second verse begins is "Some get a kick from cocaine". As the years passed, that was changed to "Some like the bop-type refrain" so kids could continue to put on "Anything Goes" as a high-school musical.

      * e.g.,  ... Chris: I'm sick of referring to cocaine as "yatch". It's gone too mainstream. 


     [ "Bop-type Refrain" ]

    2: People aware of this, wanting to demonstrate their cultural refinement and speak about cocaine, all while avoiding eavesdroppers and self-incrimination, replace the technical name of their drug of choice with "Bop-type Refrain" (or simply "Bop-type", though the later option brings with it a tremendous risk of losing your audience.)

      * e.g.,  ... Kevin: How about "Bop-type Refrain"? 

     [ "Refrain Rubbing Ramadan" ]

    1: It's basically the same as No Nut November Except that it is created for people who is fasting in the holy month of Ramadan The deed is for the people to abstain from masturbation or pornography during the whole month of ramadan

      * e.g.,  ... My friends have been going with Refrain rubbing ramadan for 2 days now 

     [ "Erotic Refrain" ]

    1: After Sadly going unnamed for several millennia, "Erotic Refrain" refers to the pleasantly repeated utterances of the human female, often repetitive, at times spontaneously outburst, while she is entertaining personal pleasure. Perhaps, etiologically, the most delightfully harmonious sound that emanates from the human female voice. Learned esoterically erotically skilled gentlemen endeavor to play a lady's Erotic Refrain like a Stradivarius, but with more than 25,000 nerve endings, the human female's instrument has a much broader range than the scant few strings of the violin. Aforementioned gentlemen will also endeavor to elicit single or multiple stanzas of a lady's Erotic Refrain in casual conversation, during fine dining, with romantic monologues and, of course, during foreplay.... ....analogous to a Maestro Director warming up an orchestra. Elder learned esoterically erotically skilled gentlemen and elder ladies agree that the typical Erotic Refrain was of far more prolonged duration prior to the 50% plummeting of Male Testosterone since pre-WWII, with an unprecedentedly magnificent crescendo toward the end!

      * e.g.,  ... Neighbor #1; Did you get any sleep last night. 

     [ "redial refrain" ]

    1: The rapid little multi-note musical ditty that you hear when you press "redial" on a touch-tone phone.

      * e.g.,  ... I got a busy signal for three quarters of an hour before I finally got through to a live person in customer service --- here's a case where I am indeed glad dat my phone has auto-redial, but I got soooo tired of hearing dat 0%!$&#@ 11-note redial refrain over and over every half-minute! 

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