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Thwart vs Crimebuster - What's the difference?

thwart | crimebuster |

As nouns the difference between thwart and crimebuster

is that thwart is a brace, perpendicular to the keel, that helps maintain the beam (breadth) of a marine vessel against external water pressure and that may serve to support the rail while crimebuster is a person, especially a law enforcement officer, who is particularly effective in thwarting criminal activity and in bringing criminals to justice.

As a verb thwart

is to prevent; to halt; to cause to fail; to foil; to frustrate.

As an adjective thwart

is situated or placed across something else; transverse; oblique.

As an adverb thwart

is obliquely; transversely; athwart.

thwart

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To prevent; to halt; to cause to fail; to foil; to frustrate.
  • * South
    • The proposals of the one never thwarted the inclinations of the other.
  • * , chapter=22
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.
  • * {{quote-book, year=2006, author=(Edwin Black), title=Internal Combustion
    • , chapter=2 citation , passage=More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel.}}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=December 10, author=David Ornstein, work=BBC Sport
    • , title= Arsenal 1-0 Everton , passage=Everton were now firmly on the back foot and it required some sharp work from Johnny Heitinga and Phil Jagielka to thwart Walcott and Thomas Vermaelen.}}
  • (obsolete) To move across or counter to; to cross.
  • * (John Milton) (1608-1674)
    • Swift as a shooting star / In autumn thwarts the night.

    Synonyms

    * See also * foil, frustrate, impede, spoil

    Derived terms

    * athwart * athwartships * thwarter * thwartsome

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (nautical) A brace, perpendicular to the keel, that helps maintain the beam (breadth) of a marine vessel against external water pressure and that may serve to support the rail.
    • A well made doughout canoe rarely needs a thwart .
  • (nautical) A seat across a boat on which a rower may sit.
    • The fisherman sat on the aft thwart to row.

    Related terms

    * beam

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Situated or placed across something else; transverse; oblique.
  • * Milton
    • Moved contrary with thwart obliquities.
  • (figurative) Perverse; crossgrained.
    • (Shakespeare)

    Adverb

    (-)
  • Obliquely; transversely; athwart.
    • (Milton)

    References

    crimebuster

    English

    Alternative forms

    * crime-buster, crime buster

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chiefly, US, informal) A person, especially a law enforcement officer, who is particularly effective in thwarting criminal activity and in bringing criminals to justice.
  • *1938 , Louther S. Horne, "Loesch Tells How to Beat Crime: A Need is Seen for Fearless Prosecutors," New York Times , 10 Apr., p. 120:
  • *:This corporation law background is less known than his record as a crime-buster .
  • *1976 , " Dipping into the Cookie Jar," Time , 2 Aug.:
    • Bit by bit, J. Edgar Hoover's image as an incorruptible crimebuster has crumbled since his death in 1972.
  • *2009 , Joel Rubinoff, " Swayze breathes life into killing" (TV review), Toronto Star , 22 Jan. (retrieved 22 Jan. 2009):
  • *:Swayze's ruthless crimebuster never hesitates—and as he plugs street scum full of bullets and pursues his own form of frontier justice with a hard, penetrating squint, we find ourselves rooting for a character who, in lesser hands, could be perceived as downright ugly.

    • Synonyms

    * gangbuster

    References

    *" crimebuster" at OneLook® Dictionary Search .