What's the difference between accusation and delation?

Accusation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of accusing or charging with a crime or with a lighter offense.
  • (n.) That of which one is accused; the charge of an offense or crime, or the declaration containing the charge.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The judge, Mr Justice John Royce, told George she was "cold" and "calculating", as further disturbing details of her relationship with the co-accused, Colin Blanchard and Angela Allen, emerged.
  • (2) Some international coverage of the outbreak was accused of misinforming western readers.
  • (3) Photograph: Guardian The research also compiled data covered by a wider definition of tax haven, including onshore jurisdictions such as the US state of Delaware – accused by the Cayman islands of playing "faster and looser" even than offshore jurisdictions – and the Republic of Ireland, which has come under sustained pressure from other EU states to reform its own low-tax, light-tough, regulatory environment.
  • (4) Faisal Abu Shahla, a senior official in Fatah, an organisation responsible for a good deal of repression of its own when it was in power, accuses Hamas of holding 700 political prisoners in Gaza as part of a broad campaign to suppress dissent.
  • (5) The charges against Harrison were filed just after two white men were accused of fatally shooting three black people in Tulsa in what prosecutors said were racially motivated attacks.
  • (6) Defence lawyers suggested this week that Anwar's accuser was a "compulsive and consummate liar" who may have been put up to it.
  • (7) Meanwhile, Hunt has been accused of backtracking on a key recommendation in the official report into Mid Staffs.
  • (8) She has been accused of being responsible for rape, sexual slavery, and prostitution itself.
  • (9) We repeat our call for them to do so at the earliest opportunity, and to share those findings so that we can take any appropriate actions.” In the BBC programme the 29-year-old Rupp, who won 10,000m silver at the London 2012 Olympics behind Farah, was accused of having taken testosterone and being a regular user of the asthma drug prednisone, which is banned in competition.
  • (10) David Cameron was accused of revealing his ill-suppressed Bullingdon Club instincts when he shouted at the Labour frontbencher Angela Eagle to "calm down, dear" as she berated him for misleading MPs at prime minister's questions.
  • (11) Certainly not ones with young children accused of non-violent crimes.
  • (12) Analysis of official registers reveals the 38 companies in the first wave of the initiative – more than two-thirds of which are based overseas – have collectively had 698 face-to-face meetings with ministers under the current government, prompting accusations of an over-cosy relationship between corporations and ministers.
  • (13) I never accuse a student of plagiarizing unless I have proof, almost always in the form of sources easily found by Googling a few choice phrases.
  • (14) And any Labour commitment on spending is fatally undermined by their deficit amnesia.” Davey widened the attack on the Tories, following a public row this week between Clegg and Theresa May over the “snooper’s charter”, by accusing his cabinet colleague Eric Pickles of coming close to abusing his powers by blocking new onshore developments against the wishes of some local councils.
  • (15) He said he was appalled by the player's accusations and plans to meet with Martin on Wednesday at an undisclosed location.
  • (16) For a union that, in less than 25 years, has had to cope with the end of the cold war, the expansion from 12 to 28 members, the struggle to create a single currency and, most recently, the eurozone crisis, such a claim risks accusations of hyperbole.
  • (17) Fred Goodwin was an accountant and no one ever accused the former chief executive of RBS of consuming mind-alterating substances – unless you count over-inhaling his own ego.
  • (18) His words earned a stinging rebuke from first lady Michelle Obama , but at a Friday rally in North Carolina he said of one accuser, Jessica Leeds: “Yeah, I’m gonna go after you.
  • (19) The Iranians have accused the Israelis and the US of designing and deploying Stuxnet, which set some of their centrifuges spinning out of control.
  • (20) Does parliamentary privilege really mean that the four accused should not face trial?

Delation


Definition:

  • (n.) Conveyance.
  • (n.) Accusation by an informer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hence, it is possible, that the IS1 recombinase is involved also in the generation of IS1-adjacent delations.
  • (2) The canaliculus cochleae was delated in the daughter.
  • (3) Awareness to the possibility of trauma to the extrahepatic biliary system enables early surgical intervention and eliminates the high morbidity associated with delated diagnosis.
  • (4) It is concluded that the delat-subunit of the acetylcholine receptor is stably and not transiently phosphorylated.
  • (5) At presentation, one or more DELAT parameters was raised in each AIHA case, and the RBC were typically coated with immunoglobulin of more than one class, together with C3.
  • (6) In allergic inflammation in the bronchi there were noted drastic delatation and increased permeability of vessels of the microcirculatory bed, odema, migration of eosinophils, the mast-cell reaction with degranulation of mast cells, spasm of musculature, elevated permeability of the basal membrane, impregnation of the latter with plasmic protein with fibrin, hypersecretion and desquamation of the epithelium, hypersecretion of mucous glands.
  • (7) In the EEG slow delat-waves increased gradually, becoming the major rhythm.
  • (8) A calibrated gamma-counter placed at the surface of the inflated lung then records a count rate delated to the total quantity of isotope in unit volume of tissue.
  • (9) He added in a covering letter to the FCO, marked “personal and secret”: “It would be repugnant to our national and service traditions and damaging to the mutual confidence among colleagues which is the great strength of the foreign service, if tale-bearing should be thought to be encouraged and if spying and delation were suspected to be part of the regularly employed equipment of the authorities.” The documents include a long list of top secret papers which Maclean had access to.
  • (10) A direct enzyme-linked antiglobulin test (DELAT) was used to measure the levels of red blood cell (RBC) bound IgG, IgM, IgA and C3 in dogs with autoimmune haemolytic anaemia (AIHA).
  • (11) Last month, the former foreign secretary, Jack Straw, led a four-member parliamentary delation visiting Tehran in an attempt to improve London-Tehran ties.
  • (12) Some artists, including Polish sculptor Paweł Althamer and local collective Chto Delat , have boycotted.
  • (13) Irradiation led to the breakdown of the integrity of the endothelial wall due to formation of defects and delatation of the intercellular fissures, which results in a considerable rise in permeability.
  • (14) When 2-deoxy-D-glucose (2-DG) was added to the perfusate, 3H-NE release was also enhanced, whereas insulin perfused at the same rate caused a delated increase in catecholamine levels as reflected by increased radioactivity.
  • (15) It was shown that sterols delat 5,7-dienic systemin ring B, ergosterol and cholesta-5,7,22-trien 3 beta-ol had the highest affinity to all the 3 antibiotics, while sterols with one double bond in ring B, i. e. cholesterol and brassicasterol had less affinity and sterol without any double bonds in the molecule i.e.
  • (16) LSD and delat-9-THC in a mixture can be detected and identified by plasma chromatography positive mobility spectra in quantities of 10-7 g or less.
  • (17) We show that the PCR method is sufficient to detect one heterozygote for the delta F508 mutation in a pool of up to 49 non-delated DNA samples.
  • (18) The most characteristic of the myorenal syndrome was accumulation of a great number of pigmental cylinders in the lower parts of the nephrom with focal delatation of the departments located above.
  • (19) But life in the Athens of the South now is very different from life in the Athens of the North when delations were common while Tiberius ruled the Roman Empire.
  • (20) These suggestions were supported by the fact, that the former operation has been done because of a gangrenous gallbladder with a highly delated common duct and the duodenum, stomach and transverse colon being involved in an inflammatory infiltration.

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