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crime

noun
/kɹaɪm/US

Etymology

From Middle English cryme, crime, from Old French crime, crimne, from Latin crīmen. Displaced native Old English firen.

  1. derived from crīmen
  2. derived from crime
  3. inherited from cryme

Definitions

  1. A specific act committed in violation of the law, especially criminal law.

    • the commission of a crime
    • The generative AI chatbot, ChatGPT, can be duped into providing detailed advice on how to commit crimes — ranging from money laundering to the export of weapons to sanctioned countries — a tech startup found.

  2. Any great sin or wickedness

    Any great sin or wickedness; iniquity.

    • Those methods of saving money should be a crime.
    • No crime was thine, if 'tis no crime to love.

  3. That which occasions crime.

    • the tree of life, the crime of our first father's fall
  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. Criminal acts collectively.

      • an effort by the police to tackle crime in the city
      • The State Department has given Ecuador $81 million since 2018 to help the country with its fight against organized crime and narcotics.

    2. The habit or practice of committing crimes.

      • Crime doesn’t pay.

    3. To subject to disciplinary punishment.

      • 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 […]

    4. To commit crime.

      • If, during the 1920s, the master criminal was a gamester, criming for self expression, during the 1930s he performed in other ways for other purposes.

    5. A particular security exploit against secret Web cookies over connections using the HTTPS…

      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.

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Derived

aftercrime, anticrime, autocrime, biocrime, capital crime, consensual crime, crimance, crime buster, crimebuster, crime-buster, crimebusting, crime car, crime doesn't pay, crime fighter, crime-fighter, crimefighter, crimefighting, crime-free, crimefree, crimeful, crime index, crimeless, crimelike, crime lord, crime mapping, crime minister, crime passionel, crimeproof, crime rate, crime-ridden, crimeridden, crime scene, crime science, crime scientist, crime sheet, crimestopper, crimethink, crimeware, crime wave, crimewave · +50 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at crime. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at crime. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at crime

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA