Yank vs Rob - What's the difference?
yank | rob |
A sudden, vigorous pull (sometimes defined as mass times jerk, or rate of change of force).
To pull something with a quick, strong action.
to remove from circulation
(lb) To steal from, especially using force or violence.
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(lb) To deprive of, or withhold from, unjustly or injuriously; to defraud.
*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:I never robbed the soldiers of their pay.
To deprive (of).
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*:Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy […] distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour.
To burgle.
*2008 , National Public Radio, All Things Considered , Sept 4, 2008
*:Her house was robbed .
(lb) To commit robbery.
(lb) To take possession of the ball, puck etc. from.
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In transitive terms the difference between yank and rob
is that yank is to remove from circulation while rob is to deprive of, or withhold from, unjustly or injuriously; to defraud.As a proper noun Rob is
a diminutive=Robert given name.yank
English
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* jerk, tugVerb
(en verb)- They yanked the product as soon as they learned it was unsafe.
Synonyms
* (pull with a quick strong action) jerk, tug * (remove from circulation) pull, recallReferences
*rob
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) robben, from (etyl) (compare English reave). More at (l).Verb
(robb)Arsenal 2-1 Olympiakos, passage=Kevin Mirallas then robbed Bacary Sagna to run into the area and draw another save from Szczesny as the Gunners held on to lead at the break.}}