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offense
(mass) | offense
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offense
(encz) | offense,přestupek n: Zdeněk Brož |
offense
(encz) | offense,trestný čin Zdeněk Brož |
offense
(encz) | offense,urážka n: Zdeněk Brož |
offense
(encz) | offense,útok n: Zdeněk Brož |
Offense
(gcide) | Offense \Of*fense"\, Offence \Of*fence"\, n. [F., fr. L.
offensa. See Offend.]
1. The act of offending in any sense; esp., a crime or a sin,
an affront or an injury.
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Who was delivered for our offenses, and was raised
again for our justification. --Rom. iv. 25.
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I have given my opinion against the authority of two
great men, but I hope without offense to their
memories. --Dryden.
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2. The state of being offended or displeased; anger;
displeasure; as, to cause offense.
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He was content to give them just cause of offense,
when they had power to make just revenge. --Sir P.
Sidney.
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3. A cause or occasion of stumbling or of sin. [Obs.]
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Woe to that man by whom the offense cometh! --Matt.
xviii. 7.
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4. In any contest, the act or process of attacking as
contrasted with the act of defending; the offensive; as,
to go on the offense.
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5. (Sports) The members of a team who have the primary
responsibility to score goals, in contrast to those who
have the responsibility to defend, i.e. to prevent the
opposing team from scoring goal.
[PJC]
Note: This word, like expense, is often spelled with a c. It
ought, however, to undergo the same change with
expense, the reasons being the same, namely, that s
must be used in offensive as in expensive, and is found
in the Latin offensio, and the French offense.
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To take offense, to feel, or assume to be, injured or
affronted; to become angry or hostile.
Weapons of offense, those which are used in attack, in
distinction from those of defense, which are used to
repel.
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Syn: Displeasure; umbrage; resentment; misdeed; misdemeanor;
trespass; transgression; delinquency; fault; sin; crime;
affront; indignity; outrage; insult.
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offense
(wn) | offense
n 1: a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others;
wounding the feelings or others [syn: discourtesy,
offense, offence, offensive activity]
2: a feeling of anger caused by being offended; "he took offence
at my question" [syn: umbrage, offense, offence]
3: (criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered
an evil act; "a long record of crimes" [syn: crime,
offense, criminal offense, criminal offence, offence,
law-breaking]
4: the team that has the ball (or puck) and is trying to score
[syn: offense, offence] [ant: defence, {defending
team}, defense]
5: the action of attacking an enemy [syn: offense, offence,
offensive] |
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capital offense
(encz) | capital offense, n: |
no offense
(encz) | no offense, but...,nic proti, ale... Martin Dvořák |
offenseless
(encz) | offenseless, adj: |
regulatory offense
(encz) | regulatory offense, n: |
sex offense
(encz) | sex offense, n: |
statutory offense
(encz) | statutory offense, n: |
take offense
(encz) | take offense,urazit se v: Pino |
Divisible offense
(gcide) | Divisible \Di*vis"i*ble\, a. [L. divisibilis, fr. dividere: cf.
F. divisible. See Divide.]
Capable of being divided or separated.
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Extended substance . . . is divisible into parts. --Sir
W. Hamilton.
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Divisible contract (Law), a contract containing agreements
one of which can be separated from the other.
Divisible offense (Law), an offense containing a lesser
offense in one of a greater grade, so that on the latter
there can be an acquittal, while on the former there can
be a conviction. -- Di*vis"i*ble*ness, n. --
Di*vis"i*bly, adv.
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Major offense
(gcide) | Major \Ma"jor\, [L. major, compar. of magnus great: cf. F.
majeur. Cf. Master, Mayor, Magnitude, More, a.]
1. Greater in number, quantity, or extent; as, the major part
of the assembly; the major part of the revenue; the major
part of the territory.
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2. Of greater dignity; more important. --Shak.
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3. Of full legal age; adult. [Obs.]
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4. (Mus.) Greater by a semitone, either in interval or in
difference of pitch from another tone.
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Major key (Mus.), a key in which one and two, two and
three, four and five, five and six and seven, make major
seconds, and three and four, and seven and eight, make
minor seconds.
Major offense (Law), an offense of a greater degree which
contains a lesser offense, as murder and robbery include
assault.
Major scale (Mus.), the natural diatonic scale, which has
semitones between the third and fourth, and seventh and
fourth, and seventh and eighth degrees; the scale of the
major mode, of which the third is major. See Scale, and
Diatonic.
Major second (Mus.), a second between whose tones is a
difference in pitch of a step.
Major sixth (Mus.), a sixth of four steps and a half step.
In major keys the third and sixth from the key tone are
major. Major keys and intervals, as distinguished from
minors, are more cheerful.
Major third (Mus.), a third of two steps.
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Offense
(gcide) | Offense \Of*fense"\, Offence \Of*fence"\, n. [F., fr. L.
offensa. See Offend.]
1. The act of offending in any sense; esp., a crime or a sin,
an affront or an injury.
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Who was delivered for our offenses, and was raised
again for our justification. --Rom. iv. 25.
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I have given my opinion against the authority of two
great men, but I hope without offense to their
memories. --Dryden.
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2. The state of being offended or displeased; anger;
displeasure; as, to cause offense.
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He was content to give them just cause of offense,
when they had power to make just revenge. --Sir P.
Sidney.
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3. A cause or occasion of stumbling or of sin. [Obs.]
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Woe to that man by whom the offense cometh! --Matt.
xviii. 7.
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4. In any contest, the act or process of attacking as
contrasted with the act of defending; the offensive; as,
to go on the offense.
[PJC]
5. (Sports) The members of a team who have the primary
responsibility to score goals, in contrast to those who
have the responsibility to defend, i.e. to prevent the
opposing team from scoring goal.
[PJC]
Note: This word, like expense, is often spelled with a c. It
ought, however, to undergo the same change with
expense, the reasons being the same, namely, that s
must be used in offensive as in expensive, and is found
in the Latin offensio, and the French offense.
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To take offense, to feel, or assume to be, injured or
affronted; to become angry or hostile.
Weapons of offense, those which are used in attack, in
distinction from those of defense, which are used to
repel.
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Syn: Displeasure; umbrage; resentment; misdeed; misdemeanor;
trespass; transgression; delinquency; fault; sin; crime;
affront; indignity; outrage; insult.
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Offenseful
(gcide) | Offenseful \Of*fense"ful\, a.
Causing offense; displeasing; wrong; as, an offenseful act.
[R.]
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Offenseless
(gcide) | Offenseless \Of*fense"less\, a.
Unoffending; inoffensive.
Syn: offenceless.
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Police offenses
(gcide) | Police \Po*lice"\, n. [F., fr. L. politia the condition of a
state, government, administration, Gr. ?, fr. ? to be a
citizen, to govern or administer a state, fr. ? citizen, fr.
? city; akin to Skr. pur, puri. Cf. Policy polity,
Polity.]
1. A judicial and executive system, for the government of a
city, town, or district, for the preservation of rights,
order, cleanliness, health, etc., and for the enforcement
of the laws and prevention of crime; the administration of
the laws and regulations of a city, incorporated town, or
borough.
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2. That which concerns the order of the community; the
internal regulation of a state.
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3. The organized body of civil officers in a city, town, or
district, whose particular duties are the preservation of
good order, the prevention and detection of crime, and the
enforcement of the laws.
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4. (Mil.) Military police, the body of soldiers detailed to
preserve civil order and attend to sanitary arrangements
in a camp or garrison.
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5. The cleaning of a camp or garrison, or the state ? a camp
as to cleanliness.
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Police commissioner, a civil officer, usually one of a
board, commissioned to regulate and control the
appointment, duties, and discipline of the police.
Police constable, or Police officer, a policeman.
Police court, a minor court to try persons brought before
it by the police.
Police inspector, an officer of police ranking next below a
superintendent.
Police jury, a body of officers who collectively exercise
jurisdiction in certain cases of police, as levying taxes,
etc.; -- so called in Louisiana. --Bouvier.
Police justice, or Police magistrate, a judge of a police
court.
Police offenses (Law), minor offenses against the order of
the community, of which a police court may have final
jurisdiction.
Police station, the headquarters of the police, or of a
section of them; the place where the police assemble for
orders, and to which they take arrested persons.
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To take offense
(gcide) | Offense \Of*fense"\, Offence \Of*fence"\, n. [F., fr. L.
offensa. See Offend.]
1. The act of offending in any sense; esp., a crime or a sin,
an affront or an injury.
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Who was delivered for our offenses, and was raised
again for our justification. --Rom. iv. 25.
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I have given my opinion against the authority of two
great men, but I hope without offense to their
memories. --Dryden.
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2. The state of being offended or displeased; anger;
displeasure; as, to cause offense.
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He was content to give them just cause of offense,
when they had power to make just revenge. --Sir P.
Sidney.
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3. A cause or occasion of stumbling or of sin. [Obs.]
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Woe to that man by whom the offense cometh! --Matt.
xviii. 7.
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4. In any contest, the act or process of attacking as
contrasted with the act of defending; the offensive; as,
to go on the offense.
[PJC]
5. (Sports) The members of a team who have the primary
responsibility to score goals, in contrast to those who
have the responsibility to defend, i.e. to prevent the
opposing team from scoring goal.
[PJC]
Note: This word, like expense, is often spelled with a c. It
ought, however, to undergo the same change with
expense, the reasons being the same, namely, that s
must be used in offensive as in expensive, and is found
in the Latin offensio, and the French offense.
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To take offense, to feel, or assume to be, injured or
affronted; to become angry or hostile.
Weapons of offense, those which are used in attack, in
distinction from those of defense, which are used to
repel.
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Syn: Displeasure; umbrage; resentment; misdeed; misdemeanor;
trespass; transgression; delinquency; fault; sin; crime;
affront; indignity; outrage; insult.
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Weapons of offense
(gcide) | Offense \Of*fense"\, Offence \Of*fence"\, n. [F., fr. L.
offensa. See Offend.]
1. The act of offending in any sense; esp., a crime or a sin,
an affront or an injury.
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Who was delivered for our offenses, and was raised
again for our justification. --Rom. iv. 25.
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I have given my opinion against the authority of two
great men, but I hope without offense to their
memories. --Dryden.
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2. The state of being offended or displeased; anger;
displeasure; as, to cause offense.
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He was content to give them just cause of offense,
when they had power to make just revenge. --Sir P.
Sidney.
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3. A cause or occasion of stumbling or of sin. [Obs.]
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Woe to that man by whom the offense cometh! --Matt.
xviii. 7.
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4. In any contest, the act or process of attacking as
contrasted with the act of defending; the offensive; as,
to go on the offense.
[PJC]
5. (Sports) The members of a team who have the primary
responsibility to score goals, in contrast to those who
have the responsibility to defend, i.e. to prevent the
opposing team from scoring goal.
[PJC]
Note: This word, like expense, is often spelled with a c. It
ought, however, to undergo the same change with
expense, the reasons being the same, namely, that s
must be used in offensive as in expensive, and is found
in the Latin offensio, and the French offense.
[1913 Webster]
To take offense, to feel, or assume to be, injured or
affronted; to become angry or hostile.
Weapons of offense, those which are used in attack, in
distinction from those of defense, which are used to
repel.
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Syn: Displeasure; umbrage; resentment; misdeed; misdemeanor;
trespass; transgression; delinquency; fault; sin; crime;
affront; indignity; outrage; insult.
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capital offense
(wn) | capital offense
n 1: a crime so serious that capital punishment is considered
appropriate |
criminal offense
(wn) | criminal offense
n 1: (criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered
an evil act; "a long record of crimes" [syn: crime,
offense, criminal offense, criminal offence,
offence, law-breaking] |
offenseless
(wn) | offenseless
adj 1: incapable of offending or attacking [syn: offenseless,
offenceless] |
regulatory offense
(wn) | regulatory offense
n 1: crimes created by statutes and not by common law [syn:
statutory offense, statutory offence, {regulatory
offense}, regulatory offence] |
sex offense
(wn) | sex offense
n 1: a statutory offense that provides that it is a crime to
knowingly cause another person to engage in an unwanted
sexual act by force or threat; "most states have replaced
the common law definition of rape with statutes defining
sexual assault" [syn: sexual assault, sexual abuse,
sex crime, sex offense] |
statutory offense
(wn) | statutory offense
n 1: crimes created by statutes and not by common law [syn:
statutory offense, statutory offence, {regulatory
offense}, regulatory offence] |
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