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Loot vs Rifle - What's the difference?

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Loot is a related term of rifle.


As verbs the difference between loot and rifle

is that loot is to steal, especially as part of war, riot or other group violence while rifle is .

As a noun loot

is a kind of scoop or ladle, chiefly used to remove the scum from brine-pans in saltworks or loot can be the act of plundering.

loot

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) loet, loete .

Alternative forms

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Noun

(en noun)
  • A kind of scoop or ladle, chiefly used to remove the scum from brine-pans in saltworks.

    • Etymology 2

    Attested 1788, a loan from Hindustani . The verb is from 1842. Fallows (1885) records both the noun and the verb as "Recent. Anglo-Indian". In origin only applicable to plundering in warfare. A figurative meaning developed in American English in the 1920s, resulting in a generalized meaning by the 1950s

    Noun

    (-)
  • The act of plundering.
    • the loot of an ancient city
  • plunder, booty, especially from a ransacked city.
  • (colloquial, US) any prize or profit received for free, especially Christmas presents
  • *1956 "Free Loot for Children" (LIFE Magazine, 23 April 1956, p. 131)
  • (video games) Items dropped from defeated enemies in video games and online games.
    • Synonyms
    * swag
    Related terms
    * contraband * plunder

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to steal, especially as part of war, riot or other group violence.
  • *1833 "Gunganarian, the leader of the Chooars, continues his system of looting and murder", The asiatic Journal and monthly register for British India and its Dependencies Black, Parbury & Allen, p. 66.
  • (video games) to examine the corpse of a fallen enemy for loot.

    • Anagrams

    * *

    References

    *Samuel Fallows, The progressive dictionary of the English language: a supplementary wordbook to all leading dictionaries of the United States and Great Britain (1885). English terms derived from Hindi English terms derived from Urdu ----

    rifle

    English

    (wikipedia rifle)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A long firearm firing a single projectile, usually with a rifled barrel to improve accuracy.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
    • , title=The Dust of Conflict , chapter=7 citation , passage=Still, a dozen men with rifles , and cartridges to match, stayed behind when they filed through a white aldea lying silent amid the cane, and the Sin Verguenza swung into slightly quicker stride.}}
  • A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes.

    • Derived terms

    * automatic rifle * rifled slug * rifling

    Verb

    (rifl)
  • to search with intent to steal; to ransack, pillage or plunder.
  • To scan many items (especially papers) in a set, quickly. (See also riffle[http://verbmall.blogspot.com/2008/05/riffle-or-rifle.html])
    • She made a mess when she rifled through the stack of papers, looking for the title document.
  • To add a spiral to the interior of a gun bore to make a fired bullet spin in flight to improve range and accuracy.
  • To strike something with great power.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2010 , date=December 28 , author=Marc Vesty , title=Stoke 0 - 2 Fulham , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Davies's cross was headed away from danger by Robert Huth, only for Baird to take the ball in his stride and rifle his right-footed effort towards the corner from the edge of the box.}}
  • To commit robbery.
    • (Bishop Hall)
  • To strip of goods; to rob; to pillage.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Stand, sir, and throw us that you have about ye: / If not, we'll make you sit and rifle you.
  • To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Time shall rifle every youthful grace.
  • To raffle.

    • Anagrams

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