different between crime vs uttering

English

Etymology

From Middle English cryme, crime, from Old French crime, crimne, from Latin cr?men. Displaced native Old English firen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?a?m/
• Rhymes: -a?m

Noun

crime (countable and uncountable, plural crimes)

1. (countable) A specific act committed in violation of the law.
2. (countable) Any great sin or wickedness; iniquity.
3. (countable, obsolete) That which occasions crime.
4. (uncountable) Criminal acts collectively.

   Synonyms: criminality, delinquency

5. (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

Derived terms

Translations

References

• crime on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

crime (third-person singular simple present crimes, present participle criming, simple past and past participle crimed)

1. (Britain, military, transitive) To subject to disciplinary punishment.
   • 1846, John Mercier McMullen, Camp and Barrack-room, Or, The British Army as it is (page 298)

     Nevertheless, in the course of a few days he is again intoxicated, creates disturbance in his quarters, is confined by his sergeant, crimed, and brought before the commanding officer […]

2. (nonce word) To commit crime(s).

See also

• offence
• sin
• administrative infraction (less serious violation of the law)

Anagrams

• REMIC, merci

French

Etymology

From Old French crimne, borrowed from Latin cr?men, from Proto-Italic *kreimen, from Proto-Indo-European *kréymn?, from *krey- (“sieve”) + *-mn?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?im/
• Rhymes: -im

Noun

crime m (plural crimes)

1. A category of severe infractions within French law, with the strongest of penalties; a felony. (10 years and more according to law)

   Le meurtre, la trahison, ces sont les crimes punissable par la loi d'une peine lourde.

Derived terms

Related terms

See also

• délit

Further reading

• “crime” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• cimer
• merci

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cr?men.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kri.me/
• Hyphenation: crì?me

Noun

crime m (plural crimi)

1. (literary, rare) crime

   Synonyms: crimine, delitto

Related terms

• crimine

References

• crime in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Middle English

Noun

crime

1. Alternative form of cryme

Portuguese

Etymology

From French crime, from Latin cr?men.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?kri.mi/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?k?im?/

Noun

crime m (plural crimes)

1. crime

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:crime.

Related terms

• criminal
• criminoso

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?krime]

Noun

crime f

1. indefinite plural of crim?
2. indefinite genitive/dative singular of crim?

English

Verb

uttering

1. present participle of utter

Noun

uttering (plural utterings)

1. An utterance; something spoken.
2. (law) The crime of knowingly presenting forged documentation.

   The girl using a fake ID to enter a bar was guilty of uttering.

   • 1881, Ephraim Arnold Jacob, Robert Alexander Fisher. An Analytical Digest of the Law and Practice of the Courts of Common Law

     If two jointly prepare counterfeit coin, and utter it in different shops apart from each other, but in concert, and intending to share the proceeds, the utterings of each are the joint utterings of both, and they may be convicted jointly.

Derived terms

• uttering and publishing

Anagrams

• tiger nut