These are the meanings of the letters NONRETENTIVE when you unscramble them.
- Intervene (n.)
A coming between; intervention; meeting.
- Intervene (v. i.)
In a suit to which one has not been made a party, to put forward a defense of one's interest in the subject matter.
- Intervene (v. i.)
To come between, or to be between, persons or things; -- followed by between; as, the Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa.
- Intervene (v. i.)
To interpose; as, to intervene to settle a quarrel.
- Intervene (v. i.)
To occur, fall, or come between, points of time, or events; as, an instant intervened between the flash and the report; nothing intervened ( i. e., between the intention and the execution) to prevent the undertaking.
- Intervene (v. t.)
To come between.
- Retention (n.)
Place of custody or confinement.
- Retention (n.)
That which contains something, as a tablet; a //// of preserving impressions.
- Retention (n.)
The act of retaining, or the state of being ratined.
- Retention (n.)
The act of withholding; retraint; reserve.
- Retention (n.)
The power of retaining; retentiveness.
- Retention (n.)
The right of withholding a debt, or of retaining property until a debt due to the person claiming the right be duly paid; a lien.
- Retentive (a.)
Having power to retain; as, a retentive memory.
- Retentive (n.)
That which retains or confines; a restraint.