RETAINED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does retained mean? 

• RETAINED (adjective)
  The adjective RETAINED has 1 sense:

1. continued in your keeping or use or memory

  Familiarity information: RETAINED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RETAINED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Continued in your keeping or use or memory

Synonyms:

maintained; retained

Context example:

in...the retained pattern of dancers and guests remembered

Similar:

preserved (kept intact or in a particular condition)

 Context examples 

I am retained in this case of the Ferrers Documents, and the Abergavenny murder is coming up for trial.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When cholesterol is abundant in the cell, the SREBPs are retained in the ER.

(Lipid Synthesis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Selectively retained in tumor vessels for long periods, ethiodized oil is used for imaging organs such as liver, lung, stomach, and thyroid.

(Ethiodized oil, NCI Thesaurus)

Reference slides are cut and are used to determine regions that should be retained.

(Laser Cryo Enrichment, NCI Thesaurus)

I retained the pictures and I found their interpretation.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

At 246 miles (396 kilometers) wide, Mimas is too small to have retained internal heat from its formation, so some other source of energy would be required to maintain an underground ocean.

(Saturn Moon May Hide a 'Fossil' Core or an Ocean, NASA)

He still retained sufficient use of his left arm to do this.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

In the study it was shown that healthy volunteers exposed to gold nanoparticles retained them in the body for as long as three months.

(Nanoparticles raise vascular risk by escaping the lungs, SciDev.Net)

Inactive Nrf2 is retained in the cytosol by association a complex with the cytoskeletal protein Keap1.

(Oxidative Stress Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

"Cosmonauts" who ate more salt retained more water, weren't as thirsty, and needed more energy.

(Salty Diet Makes You Hungry, Not Thirsty, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)