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Felon vs Orphan - What's the difference?

felon | orphan |

As adjectives the difference between felon and orphan

is that felon is treacherous while orphan is deprived of parents (also (orphaned)).

As nouns the difference between felon and orphan

is that felon is villain (wicket person) while orphan is a person, especially a , both or (rarely) one of whose parents have died.

As a verb orphan is

to deprive of parents (used almost exclusively in the passive ).

felon

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) felun, feloun, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who has committed a felony.
  • * 1859 , (Charles Dickens), A Tale of Two Cities , James Nisbet & Company (1902), Book 3, Chapter 6, page 340:
    • Looking at the Jury and the turbulent audience, he might have thought that the usual order of things was reversed, and that the felons were trying the honest men.
  • (legal) A person who has been tried]] and [[conviction, convicted of a felony.
    • Synonyms
    * (one who has committed a felony) criminal; convict; malefactor; culprit
    Related terms
    * felonious * felony

    Etymology 2

    Probably from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (medicine) A bacterial infection at the end of a finger or toe.

    • See also

    * whitlow

    References

    * ----

    orphan

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person, especially a , both or (rarely) one of whose parents have died.
  • * '>citation
  • A young animal with no mother.
  • (figuratively) Anything that is unsupported, as by its source, provider or caretaker, by reason of the supporter's or decision to abandon.
  • (typography) A single line of type, beginning a paragraph, at the bottom of a column or page.
  • (computing) Any unreferenced object.

    • Derived terms

    * orphanage * orphancy * orphandom * orphanhood * orphaner * orphanet * orphan initialism * orphanism * orphanity * orphanize * orphanotropism * orphanry * orphanship * orphany

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Deprived of parents (also (orphaned)).
    • She is an orphan child.
  • (by extension, figuratively) Remaining after the removal of some form of support.
    • With its government funding curtailed, the gun registry became an orphan program.

    Related terms

    * orphan drug

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To deprive of parents (used almost exclusively in the passive )
    • What do you do when you come across two orphaned polar bear cubs?
  • (computing) To make unavailable, as by removing the last remaining pointer or reference to.
    • When you removed that image tag, you orphaned the resized icon.
    Removing categories orphans pages from the main category tree.

    References

    * " orphan" at OneLook® Dictionary Search .