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Foreign vs Forensic - What's the difference?

foreign | forensic |

As adjectives the difference between foreign and forensic

is that foreign is located outside a country or place, especially one's own while forensic is relating to the use of science and technology in the investigation and establishment of facts or evidence in a court of law.

As a noun foreign

is foreigner.

foreign

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Located outside a country or place, especially one's own.
    • foreign''' markets''; '''''foreign soil
  • Originating from, characteristic of, belonging to, or being a citizen of a country or place other than the one under discussion.
    • foreign''' car''; '''''foreign''' word''; '''''foreign''' citizen''; '''''foreign trade
  • * {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
    • , title= , chapter=2 citation , passage=The cane was undoubtedly of foreign make, for it had a solid silver ferrule at one end, which was not English hall–marked.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-24, volume=408, issue=8850, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Guardian warriors and golden eggs , passage=Foreign' companies love to complain about doing business in China.
  • Relating to a different nation.
    • foreign''' policy''; '''''foreign navies
  • Not characteristic of or naturally taken in by an organism or system.
    • foreign''' body''; '''''foreign''' substance''; '''''foreign''' gene''; '''''foreign species
  • Alien; strange.
    • It was completely foreign to their way of thinking.
  • * (and other bibliographic particulars) (Jonathan Swift)
    • This design is not foreign from some people's thoughts.
  • (label) Held at a distance; excluded; exiled.
  • * (and other bibliographic particulars) (Shakespeare)
    • Kept him a foreign man still; which so grieved him, / That he ran mad and died.
  • From a different one of the states of the United States, as of a state of residence or incorporation.
  • Belonging to a different organization, company etc.

    • Synonyms

    * (from a different country) overseas, international * (strange) alien, fremd * (in a place where it does not belong) extraneous

    Antonyms

    * (from a different country) domestic * (not characteristic) native * (native to an area) indigenous

    Derived terms

    {{der3, foreign body , foreign correspondent , foreign country , , foreign debt , foreign exchange , foreignize , foreignization , foreign key , foreignness , foreigner , foreign tongue , foreign policy , Foreign Office}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal) foreigner
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=August 30 , author= , title=White House Extremely Worried About People Saying Dumb Stuff on 9/11 , work=Gawker citation , page= , passage=The messaging instructions come in two sets: one for domestics, another for the foreigns . }}

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    forensic

    English

    Alternative forms

    * forensick (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Relating to the use of science and technology in the investigation and establishment of facts or evidence in a court of law.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , date = 21 August 2012 , first = Ed , last = Pilkington , title = Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die? , newspaper = The Guardian , url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/21/death-penalty-trial-reggie-clemons?newsfeed=true , page = , passage = In this account of events, the cards were stacked against Clemons from the beginning. His appeal lawyers have argued that he was physically beaten into making a confession, the jury was wrongfully selected and misdirected, and his conviction largely achieved on individual testimony with no supporting forensic evidence presented.}}
  • * 1996 , 8 June, Bill Clinton, ,
    • Fire investigators and forensic chemists are combing through fire sites [the , interviewing witnesses, and following leads.
  • (dated) Relating to, or appropriate for courts of law.
  • * 1885 , , The Life of Abraham Lincoln , ,
    • It [the judiciary] had been the forum before which the highest forensic discussions had been held,
  • (archaic) Relating to, or used in debate or argument.
  • * 1851 , (Edward Shepherd Creasy), (The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World) , ,
    • Varus trusted implicitly to the interest which they affected to take in the forensic eloquence of their conquerors.

    Synonyms

    * (Related or appropriate for a court of law) legal * (Related or used in debate and argumentation) rhetorical

    Derived terms

    * forensic accounting * forensic engineering * forensic linguistics * forensic medicine * forensic science * forensically * forensics

    Related terms

    * forensal * forensive

    Anagrams

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