What's the difference between cheater and thief?

Cheater


Definition:

  • (n.) One who cheats.
  • (n.) An escheator.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is possible to begin to fix the problem by identifying people who are extreme cheaters and are likely to lie on every occasion possible.
  • (2) One question came from an eight-year-old named Will, from Los Angeles, who asked: "How old will I be when … you can say that there are no more cheaters in baseball, not one?"
  • (3) (well, I know it isn't *you*, but you might know ... ) October 28, 2013 That would be MEGA-CHEATER SPITBALLER BAN HIM FOR LIFE Jon Lester.
  • (4) Empirical studies of deception have focused on the benefits of cheating but have provided no data on the costs associated with being detected as a cheater.
  • (5) There was no difference among the cheaters and non-cheaters in terms of competitiveness.
  • (6) Of course, some cheaters insert misspelled entities to create "false" original entities and fool the system (Google took care of it).
  • (7) Cheaters are cheaters,” she told the Irish Times.
  • (8) In the first part, we disentangle the theoretical concept of a "social contract" from that of a "cheater-detection algorithm".
  • (9) This provides a mechanism for removing cheaters and preserving the honesty of the Mendelian gene-shuffle.
  • (10) "I know what I did was wrong but he's the one with a wife and children – he's the cheater.
  • (11) A survey instrument, developed in 1968 and administered to 1,629 high school students in 1969, 1,100 students in 1979, and 1,291 students in 1989, asked them to respond to items regarding the following: (1) the amount of cheating believed going on, (2) who was most guilty, (3) reasons given for cheating, (4) the courses in which most cheating occurred, (5) how to punish cheaters and by whom, (6) beliefs regarding dishonesty in society, and (7) confessions of their own dishonest behaviors in school.
  • (12) Several clinical vignettes illustrate types of resistive children and adolescents: the shrugger, the silent child, the rose-colored-glass child, the mistrustful adolescent, the cheater and rule changer, the thrower.
  • (13) Another, which defends his record on trade with China, asks: "How can Mitt Romney take on the cheaters, when he's taking their side?"
  • (14) I want this agreement to remind every American that the EPA is on the job and we have your back when companies break rules designed to protect your health and when cheaters stack the deck against businesses that follow the law,” said EPA administrator Gina McCarthy.
  • (15) In the aftermath of the massive theft of nude celebrity photos last year, victim-blaming rhetoric centered not on, “Why didn’t they enact better security measures?” but, “Why did they have nude photos online in the first place?” For the Ashley Madison hack, the rhetoric is similar: they’re cheaters, so they got what was coming to them.
  • (16) The cheater moves a maximum of three cars ahead, till a smarter fellow cuts in front of him, hazard lights on, trying the same formula.
  • (17) It then follows that withholding information should be more prevalent as a form of deception than active falsification of information because of the relative difficulties associated with detecting cheaters.
  • (18) In July, the Security and Exchange Commission called Cohen's SAC Capital Advisors "a veritable magnet of market cheaters", with federal prosecutors announcing criminal charges against Cohen's hedge fund.

Thief


Definition:

  • (n.) One who steals; one who commits theft or larceny. See Theft.
  • (n.) A waster in the snuff of a candle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is a gripping read from the opening, with the Ku Klux Klan menacing his pregnant mother, through to the troubled last months of his life: we follow Malcolm Little, common thief, on his journey to Malcolm X , inspirational leader.
  • (2) 8.41am BST Oscar Trial Channel (@OscarTrial199) Masipa says leaking of documents is disservice to justice, and that person who does it, is a thief.
  • (3) The popularity of criminal memoirs in the 1990s brought new opportunities and Reynolds wrote The Autobiography of a Thief in 1995.
  • (4) The following messages are elaborated: osteoporosis is a silent thief; backache during the menopause is not always osteoporosis; detection of the patient at risk for osteoporotic fractures is possible; primary osteoarthrosis protects against osteoporosis; bone densitometry has given osteoporosis a scientific cachet; bones are not stones, effective prevention and treatment are possible, there are alternatives to calcium and hormone replacement therapies.
  • (5) A suspected jewel thief was killed and another seriously injured during a police chase after an attempted ram raid at one of the London branches of the jewellers Tiffany and Co yesterday.
  • (6) He was dishonourably discharged from the army on a charge of indecency, roamed Europe as a vagrant, thief and homosexual prostitute, then spent a lengthy period in and out of jail in Paris following a dozen or so arrests for larceny, the use of false papers, vagabondage and lewd behaviour.
  • (7) In my part of the world, we have a saying that the man who carries a pot of palm oil from the ceiling is not the only thief.
  • (8) Representative Mike Rogers, chairman of the House intelligence committee, suggested Greenwald was a “thief” after he worked with news organizations who paid for stories based on the documents.
  • (9) Gina Rinehart's son, John Hancock, called his youngest sister "an oxygen thief", a Sydney court heard during the latest battle over control of the family's multibillion-dollar trust.
  • (10) The criminals For many years after the second world war, George “Taters” Chatham was Britain’s busiest jewel thief.
  • (11) Procrastination is the thief of time.” Last week, the chancellor echoed the exact same sentiments – “the sooner you start the smoother the ride” – as he announced a raft of Whitehall spending cuts as a down payment on the £25bn he’s planning to spend over the next three years.
  • (12) Ibori, a petty thief who rose to be one of Nigeria’s richest men, received a 13-year jail sentence in London in 2012 after admitting fraud of nearly £50m.
  • (13) Holder was fatally shot in the city’s East Harlem neighborhood while pursuing a bicycle thief.
  • (14) Another, Julie Behar, wrote that Madoff deserved a "sentence befitting a thief and murderer" while a Connecticut doctor said the entire retirement plan of his practice had been wiped out, leaving 140 employees with nothing.
  • (15) A few synaptic contacts between two adjacent chief cells are seen, and so are direct contacts between thief cells and preganglionic efferent nerve fibers terminating on ganglion cells.
  • (16) Incidentally, these sad long-term cases will do more than twice the maximum any court can sentence a thief to on Community Payback.
  • (17) You can wait until a cop gets here,” Bike Batman said he told the thief.
  • (18) The thief left the building unnoticed, then returned the artwork the next day by throwing it over the wall of the sculpture garden.
  • (19) But presumably the Sun also believes that you shouldn’t point out there’s a fire down the road if your own house isn’t burning down, and you should never chase after a thief who robbed the woman next to you if your own wallet is still safely secured in your pocket.
  • (20) He also called the incumbent president a “genocidaire”, a thief and a pyromaniac in a Facebook post that led to Bongo opening proceedings against him.