What's the difference between burglar and intruder?

Burglar


Definition:

  • (n.) One guilty of the crime of burglary.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In 1972 burglars working on behalf of president Richard Nixon’s re-election campaign broke into the Democratic party headquarters in Washington, and successfully installed a listening device on at least one phone.
  • (2) A police officer attended the scene of a burglary in progress and, following a pursuit through the house with his gun in hand, short the burglar in the back of the head.
  • (3) In a sophisticated operation, the burglars are believed to have abseiled from the roof of the building, disabling movement sensors, they write.
  • (4) Together with his late wife Janet, he wrote 37 titles including perennial favourites The Jolly Postman and Burglar Bill, and by himself he is the author of many more, including The Pencil, and Woof!
  • (5) He denies the charge , insisting that he mistook her for a burglar.
  • (6) However, lecturer Paul Kohler, who was savagely beaten by Polish burglars who broke into his west London home last year, was at the demonstration for a Channel 4 News programme and said he was depressed by the views of those on the march.
  • (7) You are a killer.” The second was in May 2013 against Shepherd Moyo, a serial rapist and burglar whose sentence of 252 years was intended to serve as a deterrent, she said.
  • (8) "You wouldn't ask burglars to come in and shape the law on burglary but they are breaking the law and they are shaping the law," he said.
  • (9) He told the court that he mistook her for a burglar, while prosecutors argued that he shot her after an argument.
  • (10) Southern Investigations has previously been implicated in handling paperwork which was stolen by a professional burglar from the safe of Paddy Ashdown's lawyer, when Ashdown was leader of the Liberal Democrats.
  • (11) The activity of burglars more often then the thieves' one goes over into the night.
  • (12) Matsuka said unknown people had tried to storm his office, and his team had installed security cameras, a panic button and burglar alarm.
  • (13) Alcoholic intoxication hardly occurs with offences against property, although the activity of burglars goes over into the early hours of night.
  • (14) Why on earth did they have their phones with them?” a former burglar, who knew three of the burglars well, asked me.
  • (15) When he examined the body, a black yarmulke was present near the outstretched hand of the burglar.
  • (16) What everyone can hear, loud as a burglar alarm, is the shriek of self-interest dressed up as national interest.
  • (17) The 42-year-old convicted burglar put Pegida, which stands for Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West, onto the political agenda by leading weekly rallies in the eastern city of Dresden to defend what he calls “German” values.
  • (18) The police had to be persuaded that this was a respectable author who liked climbing things from the outside and not an inept cat burglar returning to the scene of his crime.)
  • (19) In Robot & Frank (1 ) you play a forgetful retired cat burglar whose kids hire him a home-help robot (2 ).
  • (20) England could have a skyline of huge footballers mansions (complete with burglars).

Intruder


Definition:

  • (n.) One who intrudes; one who thrusts himself in, or enters without right, or without leave or welcome; a trespasser.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Each test was recorded using a video TV monitor system, and at a later time several behavioral elements shown by both resident and intruder mice were measured.
  • (2) The monkey brain (Macaca fascicularis) also accumulates P and D. Adrenal suppression with dexamethasone for 4 days does not decrease the concentrations of brain P and 3rd ventricle CSFP and D. The concentrations of brain D are decreased to a much smaller extent than plasma D. D inhibits the aggressive behavior of castrated male mice exposed to lactating female intruders.
  • (3) Aggressive behavior was evoked by introducing a group-housed male mouse (intruder) into the home cage of the isolated or nonisolated mouse (resident).d-Amphetamine, methamphetamine, methylphenidate, cocaine, and L-dopa decreased attack and threat behavior by resident mice, the isolates requiring 2--4 times higher drug doses for the antiaggressive effects than the nonisolates, d-Amphetamine, methamphetamine, and methylphenidate caused intruder mice to be more frequently attacked by their non-treated resident opponents, to escape more often, to assume the defensive upright posture less, and to move about more often.
  • (4) The test was briefly interrupted by a woman (intruder).
  • (5) As a first step in these processes, an enhanced chemotactic activity can attract neutrophils to the bronchial lumen, where they help by cleaning the lungs from possible dangerous intruders, but can also cause damage to the normal lung architecture.
  • (6) If we drive politicians down the road to ever greater disclosure, how can we resist the demands of the home secretary, Theresa May, that her security mafia intrude ever further into our private lives?
  • (7) This immune reaction is an attempt to change the histotypic pattern of the intruder.
  • (8) Sitting in the Khartoum restaurant as the fierce late-afternoon sun intrudes through the windows, Lubna dismisses the notion that western praise might be a drawback in a country like Sudan.
  • (9) Still, the legacy of genocide continued to intrude.
  • (10) The US secret service allowed an armed man with an arrest record to enter an elevator with president Barack Obama, it was disclosed on Tuesday, hours after officials admitted they missed three chances to deter an intruder who broke into the White House earlier this month.
  • (11) "The longer this intrusion persisted it became clear to the authorities that the intruders had no intention to leave Sabah," Najib said.
  • (12) The cytotrophoblast was restricted to the blastocoel, whilst syncytiotrophoblast intruded to the endometrial basal lamina.
  • (13) Having narrowly avoided taking the state into the realm of a free press we should not be intruding on the freedom of worship that is the proper preserve of the church not the courts."
  • (14) Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHA) and 3 beta-methyl-androst-5-en-17-one (CH3-DHA) suppress attacks by castrated male mice towards lactating female intruders (Haug et al.
  • (15) In general, the Private Office will need to know where the Minister will be (for security purposes) and how to maintain contact; apart from this, the Private Office should not intrude on the Minister's personal free time.
  • (16) The state tried to prove that Pistorius was aware that it was Steenkamp behind the toilet door but the judge accepted the defence's claims that he thought it was an intruder.
  • (17) There is a difference between grabbing a bedside lamp and whacking an intruder because you are worried about the children and hitting someone and then stabbing them 17 times," one source said.
  • (18) The dorsal raphé-lesioned rats showed significantly fewer interactions of all kinds, compared with control rats when an intruder was placed in their home cages.
  • (19) These intruding striated muscle fibres also received direct autonomic (mostly adrenergic) innervation.
  • (20) "He just looked at me and he said, 'I thought it was an intruder'."