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CRIME
crime, criminal offense, criminal offence, law-breaking
(noun) (criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act; “a long record of crimes”
crime
(noun) an evil act not necessarily punishable by law; “crimes of the heart”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Proper noun
CRIME
(computing) A particular security exploit against secret Web cookies over connections using the HTTPS and SPDY protocols that also use data compression. It relies on observing the change in size of the compressed ciphertext for various inputs.
Anagrams
• REMIC, merci
Etymology
Noun
crime (countable and uncountable, plural crimes)
(countable) A specific act committed in violation of the law.
(countable) Any great sin or wickedness; iniquity.
(countable, obsolete) That which occasions crime.
(uncountable) Criminal acts collectively.
Synonyms: criminality, delinquency
(uncountable) The habit or practice of committing crimes.
Usage notes
• Adjectives often applied to crime: organized, brutal, terrible, horrible, heinous, horrendous, hideous, financial, sexual, international.
Hyponyms
• criminal act
• crime against humanity
• crime against nature
• crime of passion
• felony
• hate crime
• high crime
• international crime
• misdemeanor, misdemeanour
• organised crime, organized crime
• petty crime
• regulatory offence
• sexual offence
• summary crime
• war crime
• white collar crime
Verb
crime (third-person singular simple present crimes, present participle criming, simple past and past participle crimed)
(UK, military, transitive) To subject to disciplinary punishment.
(nonce word) To commit crime(s).
Anagrams
• REMIC, merci
Source: Wiktionary
Crime (krm), n.Etym: [F. crime, fr. L. crimen judicial decision, that which is subjected to such a decision, charge, fault, crime, fr. the root of cernere to decide judicially. See Certain.]
1. Any violation of law, either divine or human; an omission of a duty commanded, or the commission of an act forbidden by law.
2. Gross violation of human law, in distinction from a misdemeanor or trespass, or other slight offense. Hence, also, any aggravated offense against morality or the public welfare; any outrage or great wrong. "To part error from crime." Tennyson.
Note: Crimes, in the English common law, are grave offenses which were originally capitally punished (murder, rape, robbery, arson, burglary, and larceny), as distinguished from misdemeanors, which are offenses of a lighter grade. See Misdemeanors.
3. Any great wickedness or sin; iniguity. Nocrime was thine, if 'tis no crime to love. Pope.
4. That which occasion crime. [Obs.] The tree of life, the crime of our first father's fall. Spenser. Capital crime, a crime punishable with death.
Syn.
– Sin; vice; iniquity; wrong.
– Crime, Sin,Vice. Sin is the generic term, embracing wickedness of every kind, but specifically denoting an offense as committed against God. Crime is strictly a violation of law either human or divine; but in present usage the term is commonly applied to actions contrary to the laws of the State. Vice is more distinctively that which springs from the inordinate indulgence of the natural appetites, which are in themselves innocent. Thus intemperance, unchastity, duplicity, etc., are vices; while murder, forgery, etc., which spring from the indulgence of selfish passions, are crimes.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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