crime
IPA: krˈaɪm
noun
- (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.
- (uncountable) The habit or practice of committing crimes.
- (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.
verb
- (UK, military, transitive) To subject to disciplinary punishment.
- (nonce word) To commit crime.
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Examples of "crime" in Sentences
- The crimes remain unsolved.
- He was at the scene of crime.
- That's the worst crime imaginable.
- The essentialness of the crime was sin.
- He did not know the event antedate many crimes.
- The dates indicate the time of the crime or crimes.
- In law, treason is the crime of disloyalty to one's nation.
- The crime of seditious libel is well known to the Common Law.
- "It would be a crime -- a _crime_ -- to marry him," she said, with
- Shoplifting is the crime of larceny under federal law and the UCMJ.
- The law enforcement officers induced the person to commit the crime.
- Not one single case of serious crime has been brought to my notice -- indeed, nothing that deserves the name of _crime_.
- "It would be a crime -- a _crime_ to marry him," the heart-broken girl sobbed, when she reached the privacy of her own room.
- So what’s made me particularly happy is when writers and readers of crime have praised it as a good *crime* novel, specifically.
- It is like a sort of blind patience when you come to that -- they make excuses even for Uncle Robert, to whom they have paid rent all these years for a cottage which is a crime -- yes, a _crime_!
- At least let me do the crime if u gunna punish me 4 it lol innov8ive ~crime~ 4yr old hijack victim was bought chips & yogi sip by criminals before they dropped him safely at the police station ...
- (Fairhaven WA) gabilovesjb S.ream just like thee females in the crowd - joe jonas (dont charge me for the crime) svcrime #crime U.S. Marshals operation nets more than 35,000 arrests nationwide: The U.S.
- Because the Bible in its catalogue of human actions, does not stamp on every crime its name and number, and write against it, _this is a crime_ -- does that wash out its guilt, and bleach into a virtue?]
- Minor incidents still concern. capriceo0116 RT@DrWayneWDyer Say a private prayer today for every person you read or hear about who's a victim of a violent crime no matter how distant qutequte PPl who ate a sweet everyday r 10times more likely 2b convicted of a violent #crime by age 34.
- (AP) traderbob @Hillbillybarbie well then arrests should be made because it seems like a crime to me. lecrab DNA backlog still plagues HPD crime lab - Houston Chronicle lecrab Man Arrested After Threatening to Shoot His iPhone at an Apple Store [Crime] lecrab Wayne County news briefs: Nearly 80 arrested in Detroit crime sweep - Detroit Free Press mcgeneral #crime Flu cases prompt jails to restrict visits: