Misconduct vs Violate - What's the difference?
misconduct | violate |
Bad behavior.
To mismanage.
# (reflexive) To misbehave.
(rare) To act improperly.
To break, disregard, disagree or not act according to (rules, conventions, etc.).
To rape.
As a noun misconduct
is bad behavior.As a verb misconduct
is to mismanage.As a proper noun violate is
.misconduct
English
Etymology 1
From (mis-) + (conduct) (noun)Noun
(wikipedia misconduct) (en-noun)- The student was threatened with a £2000 fine and banned from using the university's computing resources for two weeks due to gross misconduct on the Internet.
Etymology 2
From (mis-) + (conduct) (verb)Verb
(en verb)- He misconducted himself with a chorus girl, according to his wife.
violate
English
Verb
(violat)- The program tried to write to privileged memory, so it was flagged with a protect violate error.
- Accessing unauthorized files violates security protocol.