Crime vs Insult - What's the difference?
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(countable) A specific act committed in violation of the law.
(uncountable) The practice or habit of committing crimes.
(uncountable) criminal acts collectively.
Any great wickedness or sin; iniquity.
* Alexander Pope
(obsolete) That which occasions crime.
* Spenser
To commit (s).
* 1987 , Robert Sampson, Yesterday's Faces: From the Dark Side (ISBN 0879723637), page 61:
(obsolete) To behave in an obnoxious and superior manner (over, against).
*, II.3.3:
To offend (someone) by being rude, insensitive or insolent; to demean or affront (someone).
(obsolete) To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon.
An action or form of speech deliberately intended to be rude.
* Savage
* 1987 , Jamie Lee Curtis, A Fish Called Wanda :
Anything that causes offence/offense, e.g. by being of an unacceptable quality.
(medicine) Something causing disease or injury to the body or bodily processes.
* 2006 , Stephen G. Lomber, Jos J. Eggermont, Reprogramming the Cerebral Cortex (page 415)
* 2011 , Terence Allen and Graham Cowling, The Cell: A Very Short Introduction , Oxford 2011, p. 96:
(obsolete) The act of leaping on; onset; attack.
Crime is a related term of insult.
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between crime and insult
is that crime is (obsolete) that which occasions crime while insult is (obsolete) the act of leaping on; onset; attack.As nouns the difference between crime and insult
is that crime is (countable) a specific act committed in violation of the law while insult is an action or form of speech deliberately intended to be rude.As verbs the difference between crime and insult
is that crime is to commit (s) while insult is (obsolete|intransitive) to behave in an obnoxious and superior manner (over, against).crime
English
(wikipedia crime)Noun
- Crime doesn’t pay.
- No crime' was thine, if 'tis no ' crime to love.
- the tree of life, the crime of our first father's fall
Usage notes
* Adjectives often applied to "crime": organized, brutal, terrible, horrible, heinous, horrendous, hideous, financial, sexual, international.Synonyms
* (criminal acts collectively) delinquency, crime rate, criminalityHyponyms
* * * * * * *Derived terms
* crime against humanity * crime against nature * crimebuster * crime index * crime mapping * crime rate * criminal * criminal law * criminal record * criminology * decriminalization * international crime * organised crime / organized crime * sexual crime * war crime * white collar crimeVerb
(en-verb)- If, during the 1920s, the master criminal was a gamester, criming for self expression, during the 1930s he performed in other ways for other purposes.
See also
* offence * sin * administrative infraction (less serious violation of the law) ----insult
English
Verb
(en verb)- thou hast lost all, poor thou art, dejected, in pain of body, grief of mind, thine enemies insult over thee, thou art as bad as Job […].
- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* (to offend) abuse, affront, offend, slight * See alsoAntonyms
*complimentNoun
(en noun)- the ruthless sneer that insult adds to grief
- To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people!
- The way the orchestra performed tonight was an insult to my ears.
- Within the complex genome of most organisms there are alternative multiple pathways of proteins which can help the individual cell survive a variety of insults , for example radiation, toxic chemicals, heat, excessive or reduced oxygen.
- (Dryden)