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Penalty vs Harm - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between penalty and harm

is that penalty is a legal sentence while harm is injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune.

As a verb harm is

to cause injury to another; to hurt; to cause damage to something.

penalty

English

(wikipedia penalty)

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Noun

(penalties)
  • A legal sentence.
    • The penalty for his crime was to do hard labor.
  • A punishment for violating rules of procedure.
  • * 1900', , Chapter I,
    • Was it so irreconcilable, Warwick wondered, as still to peal out the curfew bell, which at nine o'clock at night had clamorously warned all negroes, slave or free, that it was unlawful for them to be abroad after that hour, under penalty of imprisonment or whipping?
  • (finance) A payment forfeited for an early withdrawal from an account or an investment.
  • (football) A direct free kick from the penalty spot, taken after a defensive foul in the penalty box; a penalty kick.
  • (ice hockey) A punishment for an infraction of the rules, often in the form of being removed from play for a specified amount of time.
    • A penalty was called when he tripped up his opponent.

    Related terms

    * penal * penality (rare)

    Derived terms

    * penalty arc * penalty box * penalty kick * penalty area * penalty phase * penalty shot * penalty shoot-out * penalty spot

    See also

    * free kick

    Anagrams

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    harm

    English

    (wikipedia harm)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune.
  • * , chapter=13
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them. Soft heartedness caused more harm than good.}}
  • That which causes injury, damage, or loss.
  • * (William Shakespeare)
    • We, ignorant of ourselves, / Beg often our own harms .

    Usage notes

    * Adjectives often applied to "harm": bodily, physical, environmental, emotional, financial, serious, irreparable, potential, long-term, short-term, permanent, lasting, material, substantial.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cause injury to another; to hurt; to cause damage to something.

    • Derived terms

    * do no harm * harmer * harmless * harm's way * self-harm * unharmed

    Anagrams

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