What's the difference between burglar and looter?

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).

Looter


Definition:

  • (n.) A plunderer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 'I am all the African chiefs who have sold their continent to the white men' … Samuel Fosso's self-portrait as an African chief The life work of one of Africa's most important living photographers and contemporary artists, Samuel Fosso , has been rescued from destruction after his studio and home were attacked by looters in war-torn Central African Republic .
  • (2) Two years later, the offices of Mohamed Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood were trashed after an all-night siege , with looters seizing door-labels of prominent Brotherhood leaders as trophies.
  • (3) JD Sports Verdict LOSER Sales up 3.2% (UK & Ireland, 7 weeks to 5 January) London riots: police guard a JD Sports store targeted by looters in Hackney, east London.
  • (4) Clegg also defended the right of local authorities to consider evicting the families of vandals and looters but stressed that the issue had to be dealt with carefully and sensitively.
  • (5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Sam’s Meat Market & More employee Steve Sumad surveys damage caused by looters.
  • (6) At the beginning he named us ‘terrorists’ and ‘looters’.
  • (7) But it was unclear if Arinç's conciliatory remarks had the blessing of Erdogan, who has previously dismissed the protesters as "looters" and fringe extremists.
  • (8) Dozens of police officers dressed in riot gear, some holding assault rifles, started filing in more than two hours before midnight, lining the street and guarding store fronts from potential looters.
  • (9) Occasionally, French and African peacekeepers entered the neighbourhood and fired in the air to disperse the looters, but they usually quickly returned as the peacekeepers were leaving."
  • (10) The prime minister's remarks were less abrasive than his comments earlier this week when he branded his critics as looters and fringe extremists.
  • (11) With Iraqi police still absent from their posts - those at the museum fled as the looters arrived - the US remains the only potential policing presence in the city.
  • (12) He was fed up with the rioters and the looters and he was determined that they would not destroy our community."
  • (13) • Forces across England did not know how to respond to social media networks, particularly encrypted BlackBerry messaging, which enabled rioters and looters to organise and at times outmanoeuvre police.
  • (14) Vigilantes armed with machetes and clubs blocked the road leading away from the compound, stopping cars to prevent looters from driving off with heavy weapons.
  • (15) Soldiers intervened to stop looters at a huge supermarket in Ariana, 20 miles north of the capital, as a helicopter hovered overhead.
  • (16) A female officer – part of a small team of mostly community support officers with no riot kit or training, who successfully defended local shop owners against looters – admitted to feeling fear before going on duty and said: "My dad had to talk me into it."
  • (17) ITN, which produces news programmes for ITV and Channel 4, said that despite the drive to swiftly identify looters the government cannot run roughshod over standard legal practice.
  • (18) The looters sabotaged not just property but the community’s peaceful protests, he said.
  • (19) With no intervention from police at all, and looters in control of the area for around three hours, it was left to residents to intervene.
  • (20) Fosso's housekeeper was still there trying to protect the house and studio from looters.