Thief vs Crime - What's the difference?
thief | crime |
One who has carried out a theft.
(obsolete) A waster in the snuff of a candle.
(countable) A specific act committed in violation of the law.
(uncountable) The practice or habit of committing crimes.
(uncountable) criminal acts collectively.
Any great wickedness or sin; iniquity.
* Alexander Pope
(obsolete) That which occasions crime.
* Spenser
To commit (s).
* 1987 , Robert Sampson, Yesterday's Faces: From the Dark Side (ISBN 0879723637), page 61:
In obsolete terms the difference between thief and crime
is that thief is a waster in the snuff of a candle while crime is that which occasions crime.As nouns the difference between thief and crime
is that thief is one who has carried out a theft while crime is a specific act committed in violation of the law.As a verb crime is
to commit crime(s).thief
English
Noun
(thieves)- (Bishop Hall)
Hyponyms
* burglar * cat burglar * mugger * robber * pickpocketDerived terms
* *Anagrams
* English nouns with irregular pluralscrime
English
(wikipedia crime)Noun
- Crime doesn’t pay.
- No crime' was thine, if 'tis no ' crime to love.
- the tree of life, the crime of our first father's fall
Usage notes
* Adjectives often applied to "crime": organized, brutal, terrible, horrible, heinous, horrendous, hideous, financial, sexual, international.Synonyms
* (criminal acts collectively) delinquency, crime rate, criminalityHyponyms
* * * * * * *Derived terms
* crime against humanity * crime against nature * crimebuster * crime index * crime mapping * crime rate * criminal * criminal law * criminal record * criminology * decriminalization * international crime * organised crime / organized crime * sexual crime * war crime * white collar crimeVerb
(en-verb)- If, during the 1920s, the master criminal was a gamester, criming for self expression, during the 1930s he performed in other ways for other purposes.