different between trespass vs crime

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: tr?s'p?s, IPA^(key): /?t??sp?s/
• (US) enPR: tr?s'p?s, IPA^(key): /?t??spæs/

Etymology 1

Borrowed into Middle English from Old French trespas (“passage; offense against the law”), from trespasser.

Noun

trespass (countable and uncountable, plural trespasses)

1. (law) An intentional interference with another's property or person.
2. (archaic) sin

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Old French trespasser (“to go across or over, transgress”), from tres- (“across, over”) + passer (“to pass”).

Verb

trespass (third-person singular simple present trespasses, present participle trespassing, simple past and past participle trespassed)

1. (intransitive, now rare) To commit an offence; to sin.

   Synonym: transgress

   • In the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the Lord.

2. (transitive, obsolete) To offend against, to wrong (someone).
   • 1526, Bible, tr. William Tyndale, Matthew 6:14

     And forgeve us oure trespases, even as we forgeve them which trespas us.

3. (intransitive) To go too far; to put someone to inconvenience by demand or importunity; to intrude.

   Synonym: cross the line

   • 1813 — Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.

     "Indeed I have, sir," was her answer. "She is a great deal too ill to be moved. Mr. Jones says we must not think of moving her. We must trespass a little longer on your kindness."

4. (law) To enter someone else's property illegally.
5. (obsolete) To pass beyond a limit or boundary; hence, to depart; to go.

   Synonyms: exceed, surpass, transcend

   • 1523–1525, Jean Froissart, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners (translator), Froissart's Chronicles

     Soon after this, noble Robert de Bruce […] trespassed out of this uncertain world.

6. (transitive) To decree that a person shall be arrested for trespassing if he or she returns to someone else's land.

Derived terms

• trespasser

Translations

Further reading

• trespass in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• trespass in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• trespass at OneLook Dictionary Search
• “trespass”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• pastress, sparsest

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?