Snitch vs Report - What's the difference?

snitch | report |

As nouns the difference between snitch and report

is that snitch is a thief while report is report (all senses).

As a verb snitch

is to steal, quickly and quietly.

snitch

English

Verb

(es)

To steal, quickly and quietly.

To inform on.

(slang) To contact or cooperate with the police for any reason.

Noun

(es)

A thief.

An informer, usually one who betrays his group.

(rft-sense) (British) A nose.

* 1897 , W.S. Maugham, , chapter 1

'Yah, I wouldn't git a second-'and dress at a pawnbroker's!'

'Garn!' said Liza indignantly. 'I'll swipe yer over the snitch if yer talk ter me. [...] "

* {{quote-book

, year=1960 , year_published=2001 , publisher=Penguin Classics , author=Barbara Wright (tr.) , by=Raymond Queneau , title=Zazie in the metro , original=Zazie dans le métro citation , isbn=9780142180044 , page=96 , passage=He added in conclusion that he strongly disliked the police coming and sticking its nose into his affairs and, since the horror which such actions inspired in him was not far from making him wish to vomit, he extracted from his pocket a silken square of the colour of the lilac flower (the one that isn’t white) but impregnated with Barbouze, the Fior perfume, and with it dabbed his snitch .}}

* {{quote-book

, year=1978 , year_published=1999 , publisher=University of Chicago Press , author=Brenda R. Silver , quotee=Alan Bennett , title=Virginia Woolf icon , section=Take Seven: British Graffiti: Me ,I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf'' and ''Sammy And Rosie Get Laid citation , isbn=9780226757452 , page=158 , passage= On one level clearly emblematic of her class status, “she’d have really looked down her snitch at me”), Virginia Woolf's nose, both Bennett and his audience would know, signifies as well the far more frightening power, the phallic power, attributed to women, strong women in particular.}}

* {{quote-book

, year=1994 , publisher=HarperCollins , author=Christine Marion Fraser , title=Noble Beginnings citation , isbn=9780002241014 , page=74 , passage=‘Yes, I’m a witch! I wiggle my snitch![...]’}}

* {{quote-newsgroup

, year=1999 , date=September 27 , author="billy" , title=Re: Babies Having Babies , newsgroup=uk.media.tv.misc citation , passage=Bluenoze: Blow your nose to clear your snitch of whatever it is you've been snorting and read the postings again.}}

* {{quote-newsgroup

, year=1999 , date=March 26 , author=G Greenway , title=Re: aah-cho!! , newsgroup=alt.gothic citation , passage=Question: do benign bacteria live in one's snitch and keep the other, nastier ones at bay ?}}

* {{quote-newsgroup

, year=2001 , date=July 27 , author=catmandoo , title=Re: Please help me to be 'correct'. , newsgroup=uk.local.isle-of-wight citation , passage=Have a perpetual dew drop hanging from your snitch }}

Synonyms

* (informer) grass, mole, rat, stool pigeon

report

English

(wikipedia report)

Verb

(en verb)

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-01-01, author=Paul Bartel, Ashli Moore

, volume=101, issue=1, page=47–48, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= Avian Migration: The Ultimate Red-Eye Flight , passage=Many of these classic methods are still used, with some modern improvements. For example, with the aid of special microphones and automated sound detection software, ornithologists recently reported

(label) To repeat (something one has heard), to retell; to pass on, convey (a message, information etc.).

*:thenne they ansuerd by and by that they coude not excuse the quene // Allas sayd the quene I made this dyner for a good entente / and neuer for none euyl soo almyghty god me help in my ryght as I was neuer purposed to doo suche euylle dedes / and that I reporte me vnto god

(label) Formally to notify someone of (particular intelligence, suspicions, illegality, misconduct etc.); to make notification to relevant authorities; to submit a formal report of.

(label) To make a formal statement, especially of complaint, about (someone).

(label) To show up or appear at an appointed time; to present oneself.

(label) To write news reports (for); to cover as a journalist or reporter.

(label) To be accountable.

To return or present as the result of an examination or consideration of any matter officially referred.

To take minutes of (a speech, the doings of a public body, etc.); to write down from the lips of a speaker.

(label) To refer.

*(Thomas Fuller) (1606-1661)

*:Baldwin, his son,succeeded his father; so like unto him that we report the reader to the character of King Almeric, and will spare the repeating his description.

To return or repeat, as sound; to echo.

*(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)

*:a church with windows only form above, that reporteth the voice thirteen times

Derived terms

* reporter * underreport

Noun

(en noun)

A piece of information describing, or an account of certain events given or presented to someone, with the most common adpositions being by (referring to creator of the report) and on (referring to the subject.

A report by the telecommunications ministry on the phone network revealed a severe capacity problem.

* {{quote-news

, year=2011 , date=December 16 , author=Denis Campbell , title=Hospital staff 'lack skills to cope with dementia patients' , work=Guardian citation , page= , passage=Hospitals are failing to care properly for the growing number of people with dementia, according to an NHS-funded report , which has prompted demands for big improvements to help patients.}}

(ballistics ) The sharp, loud sound from a gun or explosion.

* 1851 ,

While their masters, the mates, seemed afraid of the sound of the hinges of their own jaws, the harpooneers chewed their food with such a relish that there was a report to it.

* 1883:

...a pistol-shot, flash and report , came from the hedge-side.

an employee whose position in a corporate hierarchy is below that of a particular manager

Derived terms

* (piece of information) on report, report card * (employee) direct report, indirect report

Anagrams

* English reporting verbs 1000 English basic words ----