What's the difference between abet and bait?

Abet


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To instigate or encourage by aid or countenance; -- used in a bad sense of persons and acts; as, to abet an ill-doer; to abet one in his wicked courses; to abet vice; to abet an insurrection.
  • (v. t.) To support, uphold, or aid; to maintain; -- in a good sense.
  • (v. t.) To contribute, as an assistant or instigator, to the commission of an offense.
  • (n.) Act of abetting; aid.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a statement on Monday, Adams said he was aware that police might want to speak to him about the killing given that veteran republican Ivor Bell was charged at the weekend for aiding and abetting in the murder.
  • (2) The 77-year-old republican veteran denies charges of aiding and abetting in the McConville murder.
  • (3) Worse, politicians abet would-be killers by creating gun markets for them, and voters allow those politicians to keep their jobs.
  • (4) On the eve of Charles Taylor's conviction for "aiding and abetting" such attacks as he and his allies sought control of lucrative diamond fields, Sorie maintained his silence.
  • (5) I give up reading of the hell that criminalisation – abetted by an antediluvian UN – inflicts on the people of Mexico, Colombia, Afghanistan and Burma.
  • (6) Whether an on-water or on-land matter the government must come clean and explain to the Australian and international community whether it has funded, aided and abetted those that it calls dangerous criminals – people smugglers – to turn back people seeking asylum and safety,” he said.
  • (7) The team’s failure led to the immediate and “irrevocable” resignations of both the manager and the president of the Italian federation, Giancarlo Abete.
  • (8) "I am disappointed the leadership of my party did not consult me before issuing a press release and seems always to abet the request of the pro-Israel lobby.
  • (9) Book and author quickly acquired a mystique, partly abetted by Salinger, who cultivated his obscurity to the point of mania, becoming as secretive and self-obsessed as Holden Caulfield, in the words of the New York Times , “the Garbo of letters”.
  • (10) Because the Living Will advances the concept of negative euthanasia--an ethical, legal, and political misnomer--and abets the effort to legalize positive or direct euthanasia, it should not be given legal recognition.
  • (11) Just as we argued in the 1980s that those who conducted business with apartheid South Africa were aiding and abetting an immoral system, we can say that nobody should profit from the rising temperatures, seas and human suffering caused by the burning of fossil fuels.
  • (12) Most important, Carlin says, Freeman, abetted by the screenwriter, "impressively conveys the giant solitude of Mandela".
  • (13) A final uniform formulation was tentatively proposed that this patient, in addition to a strong genetic component for atopic dermatitis, had her illness abetted by inability to cope with aggressive affects.
  • (14) Investors cite similar reasons for buying green bonds: the ability to earn attractive returns (typically 4% to 5%) with minimal risk; and a growing array of clean energy projects, abetted by lower renewable energy costs, that are environmentally and financially attractive.
  • (15) However, abetted by the resultant low index of suspicion on the part of clinical staff, certain parasitic microorganisms may at times cause significant morbidity and even mortality in both normal and immunocompromised patients, as summarized in this review.
  • (16) Many important aspects of the mechanism(s) abetting renal ammonia metabolism in man have remained unresolved.
  • (17) They are abetted by GP columnists and correspondents in the trade press, who all seem to be on the verge of boarding a plane to leave the country, because of disgust with the NHS .
  • (18) Yettaw was given a seven-year jail sentence, including four years of hard labour, after the court found him guilty of abetting the violation of the house arrest order and two other offences.
  • (19) Their cruelty was abetted by the apparent ineptitude of local authorities, which failed to intervene at several junctures.
  • (20) A significant point was that prior to developing their illness, all these patients had arrived at a state of objectlessness which was abetted by the deafness.

Bait


Definition:

  • (v. i.) Any substance, esp. food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, inclosure, or net.
  • (v. i.) Anything which allures; a lure; enticement; temptation.
  • (v. i.) A portion of food or drink, as a refreshment taken on a journey; also, a stop for rest and refreshment.
  • (v. i.) A light or hasty luncheon.
  • (v. t.) To provoke and harass; esp., to harass or torment for sport; as, to bait a bear with dogs; to bait a bull.
  • (v. t.) To give a portion of food and drink to, upon the road; as, to bait horses.
  • (v. t.) To furnish or cover with bait, as a trap or hook.
  • (v. i.) To stop to take a portion of food and drink for refreshment of one's self or one's beasts, on a journey.
  • (v. i.) To flap the wings; to flutter as if to fly; or to hover, as a hawk when she stoops to her prey.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Features of barrier island physiography and ecology were studied relative to selective bait deployment and site biosecurity.
  • (2) After distribution, 81% of foxes inspected were positive for tetracycline, a biomarker included in the vaccine bait and, other than one rabid fox detected close to the periphery of the treated area, no case of rabies, either in foxes or in domestic livestock, has been reported in the area.
  • (3) Four of the eight arms were baited on all trials of a given session.
  • (4) Reasoning ability in crows was investigated by means of the Revecz-Krushinskiĭ test, in which the bird has to apprehend the rule of stimulus (food bait) displacement: "In each next trial the food bait is hidden in a new place--one step further along the row".
  • (5) Rats were trained to make various head movements to get water at a 3 x 3 array of holes, each with a recessed water-baited dipper.
  • (6) Direct cultivation of the clinical material in Czapek liquid culture medium without carbon source and containing a paraffin rod (pariffin-bait technic), as well as the routin T.B.
  • (7) Specific methods, utilizing thin-layer and high-performance liquid chromatography, were developed for determining the compound in stomach contents and corn bait.
  • (8) Fungi were isolated from the samples by the method of hair baiting (To-Ka-Va).
  • (9) Presence, absence, color and perforations of plastic bags did not alter bait acceptance.
  • (10) The toxicities of Raid Max Roach Bait (sulfluramid) and COMBAT Roach Control System (hydramethylnon) to susceptible and field-collected German cockroaches were examined.
  • (11) When battery operated CDC miniature incandescent and black light traps (with and without light bulbs) were operated with and without CO2, the rank of trap effectiveness for total numbers of female Culicoides variipennis caught was: black light plus CO2; CO2-baited trap without light bulb; black light without CO2; incandescent light plus CO2 and incandescent light without CO2.
  • (12) Diurnal human bait catches yielded 1,427 female mosquitoes in 27 species.
  • (13) And as a large number of schools did not take the bait, the government now says it will require all schools to become academies, regardless of the wishes of parents and communities.
  • (14) One of the chickens in the traps was positive for microfilariae of Cardiofilaria four weeks after exposure as bait.
  • (15) A s Michael Howard’s flag-waving, sabre-rattling, Madrid-baiting intervention made clear, Gibraltar can occupy an oddly atavistic place in some corners of Britain’s collective psyche.
  • (16) During 70 all night bait collections from January to December 1989, a total of 2290 An.
  • (17) By contrast, ticks were attracted to CO2 baits during daytime only between May and mid-December.
  • (18) These days, rat poison is not just sown in the earth by the truckload, it is rained from helicopters that track the rats with radar – in 2011 80 metric tonnes of poison-laced bait were dumped on to Henderson Island, home to one of the last untouched coral reefs in the South Pacific.
  • (19) Fluoroacetic acid from tissue (1 g) and bait (10 g) extracts was first partitioned into ethyl acetate and then into 0.5 M benzyldimethylphenylammonium hydroxide.
  • (20) After a 1-week dispersal period 69 baited blow-fly traps were placed in different habitat types and at varying distances around the release point.