Coroner vs Detective - What's the difference?
coroner | detective |
A public official who presides over an inquest into unnatural deaths.
(Canada, US) A medical doctor who performs autopsies and determines time and cause of death from a scientific standpoint.
The administrative head of a sheading.
(law enforcement) A police officer who looks for evidence as part of solving a crime; an investigator.
* {{quote-book, year=1928, author=Lawrence R. Bourne
, title=Well Tackled!
, chapter=7 A person employed to find information not otherwise available to the public.
As nouns the difference between coroner and detective
is that coroner is a public official who presides over an inquest into unnatural deaths while detective is a police officer who looks for evidence as part of solving a crime; an investigator.coroner
English
Noun
(en noun)Hyponyms
* (who presides over an inquest) medical examiner, ME (if he performs autopsies)External links
* ("coroner" on Wikipedia)Anagrams
* crooner ----detective
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(wikipedia detective)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=The detective kept them in view. He made his way casually along the inside of the shelter until he reached an open scuttle close to where the two men were standing talking. Eavesdropping was not a thing Larard would have practised from choice, but there were times when, in the public interest, he had to do it, and this was one of them.}}
