Tort vs Offense - What's the difference?
tort | offense |
An injury or wrong.
* Spenser
(legal) A wrongful act, whether intentional or negligent, which causes an injury and can be remedied at civil law, usually through awarding damages.
(rfc-sense) The area of law dealing with such wrongful acts.
(obsolete) Stretched tight; taut.
* Emerson
(en noun) (US)
The act of offending:
# a crime or sin
#* {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
, title=Internal Combustion
, chapter=2 # an affront, insult or injury.
#* Dryden
The state of being offended or displeased; anger; displeasure.
) A strategy and tactics employed when in position to score; ''contrasted with defense.
) The portion of a team dedicated to scoring when in position to do so; ''contrasted with defense.
As nouns the difference between tort and offense
is that tort is an injury or wrong while offense is the act of offending.As an adjective tort
is tart, sharp.tort
English
(wikipedia tort)Etymology 1
Dialectal variation of (l).Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m), from .Noun
(en noun)- that had them long opprest with tort
Synonyms
* delict (Scottish law)Derived terms
* tortiousSee also
*Etymology 3
Adjective
(er)- Yet holds he them with tortest rein.
Anagrams
* ----offense
English
(wikipedia offense)Alternative forms
* (British standard spelling) offenceNoun
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- I have given my opinion against the authority of two great men, but I hope without offence to their memories.