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What (who) is padded cell - definition
SPECIAL ROOM IN A PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL
Padded Room; Padded room; Seclusion room
padded cell
Where you put lusers so they can't hurt anything. A program
that limits a luser to a carefully restricted subset of the
capabilities of the host system (for example, the "rsh"
utility on USG Unix). Note that this is different from an
iron box because it is overt and not aimed at enforcing
security so much as protecting others (and the luser) from
the consequences of the luser's boundless naivet'e (see
naive). Also "padded cell environment".
[Jargon File ]
(1994-11-30)
padded cell
(padded cells)
A padded cell is a small room with padded walls in a mental hospital or prison, where a person who may behave violently can be put so that they do not hurt themselves.
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Cell (music)
SMALLEST INDIVISIBLE UNIT OF MUSIC OF RHYTHMIC AND MELODIC DESIGN
Musical cell; Intervallic cell; Rhythmic cell; Melodic cell
The 1957 Encyclopédie Laroussequoted in Nattiez, Jean-Jacques (1990). Music and Discourse: Toward a Semiology of Music (Musicologie générale et sémiologue, 1987).
Wikipedia
Padded cell
A padded cell is a cell in a psychiatric hospital with cushions lining the walls. The padding is an attempt to prevent patients from hurting themselves by hitting their head (or other bodily parts) on the hard surface of the walls. In most cases, an individual's placement in a padded cell is involuntary.
Other names used are "rubber room", seclusion room, time out room, calming room, quiet room, or personal safety room.
Examples of use of padded cell
1. We lock them up in a padded cell in a secure institution and throw away the key.
2. Most of us would conclude that the woman who rejected Hannah‘s passport application belongs in a padded cell, not behind a Post Office counter.
3. Some parts of the dungeon were no more than 1.70 meters (5 ft 6 in) high and officials in Amstetten said the basement labyrinth contained a padded cell.
4. Blunkett belonged in a padded cell, not one of the great offices of state, charged with the defence of the realm.
5. Britney Spears is to remain under psychiatric care for another two weeks as the pop star could be confined to a padded cell, according to reports.