What's the difference between confiscate and seizure?

Confiscate


Definition:

  • (a.) Seized and appropriated by the government to the public use; forfeited.
  • (v. t. ) To seize as forfeited to the public treasury; to appropriate to the public use.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It wants courts to be able to ban them from driving, to confiscate their passport, or even impose a curfew.
  • (2) Politicians know that: they usually do not campaign on proposals to confiscate high incomes and pad low incomes.
  • (3) The present catamnestic study covers 100 petitioners, who either applied for the first time for a driving licence or for readmission to traffic after confiscation of their license by the police.
  • (4) But it is impossible to do so; police confiscated the documents of the company that handled his affairs.
  • (5) Meanwhile, an increase in labour inspectors has led to existing laws prohibiting the confiscation of passports being better enforced.
  • (6) The onset of smoking in the oldest male group in this rural area occurred in the first years after the war (first land confiscation) while in the group from 70 to 74 years of age it occurred in the years of compulsory crop-purchase system.
  • (7) The officials confiscated his laptop, phone, two memory sticks, two DVDs, a Sony games console, a smartwatch and a hard drive, the letter revealed.
  • (8) It gets up your nose.” Mahmood, 16, from Syria, said his shoes had been confiscated by police last Thursday night.
  • (9) Construction firms worth €550m belonging to building magnate Rosario Cascio and €700m worth of property and business concerns have been confiscated from Giuseppe Grigoli, whose retail and distribution group allegedly laundered Messina Denaro's cash.
  • (10) He added that the government should confiscate all other assault weapons and imprison those who insist on keeping guns.
  • (11) During a raid in 2013 on a village in Guangdong province nicknamed “China’s number one drug village”, police closed dozens of secret drug labs producing meth and ketamine and confiscated at least three tonnes of drugs worth about £142m.
  • (12) According to the source, security forces have been going around markets in recent months confiscating items suspected of being South Korean in origin, such as second hand clothes.
  • (13) In Germany a confiscated driving licence is only given back by the road traffic authorities to suspected alcoholics after a medico-psychological examination.
  • (14) Law enforcement efforts were intensified, supported by the criminalization of stimulant abuse with the enactment of the Stimulant Control Law in 1951 and subsequent amendments to it that were rigorously enforced, resulting in more arrests, indictments and relatively harsh penalties for stimulant offences, as well as an increase in the number and volume of confiscations.
  • (15) Agglomeration in the onset of smoking in two male age groups (60-64, 65-69) occurred at the time of the second land confiscation.
  • (16) In the summer of 1984, police in Pinellas County, Florida, confiscated six identically colored imported Asian skulls (in a shipping case) from a private citizen.
  • (17) "The fear is that records become a back door to registration and then, when the political moment is right, registration will turn to confiscation," said Robert Cottrol, a gun control expert at George Washington University.
  • (18) Detainees have described to their lawyers in phone calls and letters a hard regime at the base, with confiscations of many basic items, like toothbrushes.
  • (19) Instead of helping her, the authorities imposed a travel ban on her and my little brother and confiscated her passport at the request of her ex-husband, leaving her in limbo and exposing the shocking inequities of the UAE legal system.
  • (20) Criminal charges against him were dropped, but Mohamed was nevertheless suspended from school for three days and his clock was confiscated.

Seizure


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of seizing, or the state of being seized; sudden and violent grasp or gripe; a taking into possession; as, the seizure of a thief, a property, a throne, etc.
  • (n.) Retention within one's grasp or power; hold; possession; ownership.
  • (n.) That which is seized, or taken possession of; a thing laid hold of, or possessed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The analysis of total seizure days showed a significant reduction during LTG treatment (p less than 0.002).
  • (2) The second experiments entailed use of the nonspecific opiate antagonist, naloxone, as well as the specific delta antagonist, ICI 154,129, against seizures induced by icv-administered morphine, morphiceptin, DADL, or DSLET.
  • (3) Wilder Penfield's development of surgical methods for treating focal cerebral seizures, beginning with his early work in Montreal in 1928, is reviewed.
  • (4) The fringe of the seizure ("borderland of epilepsy") is briefly delineated.
  • (5) Out of 50 epileptics in 31 cases temporal-lobe epilepsy was present, in 15 the seizures and EEG changes were generalized, in 4 cases focal non-temporal-lobe epilepsy was recognized.
  • (6) The periodic pattern was assumed as subclinical focal seizure discharges from the right anterior temporal deep structures.
  • (7) Four had partial simple seizures with secondary generalisation and 3 had cortical excisions (2 frontal, 1 occipital lobe) surgery.
  • (8) The present study observed that a 40-dB hearing loss, beginning at 17 days postpartum, requires 2 days before it induces susceptibility to audiogenic seizures.
  • (9) If severe seizures were prevented by antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) there was complete remission of the syndrome and repeat injection was necessary to reinitiate seizures.
  • (10) Upon lowering [K+]o and raising [Ca2+]o the IIBs disappeared and the seizures reappeared.
  • (11) A case study of a patient with both documented genuine and hysterical pseudo-seizures demonstrates use of the model.
  • (12) Although an unequivocal decision is not possible from existing knowledge, psychomotor or complex partial seizures of temporal lobe epilepsy would be the most tenable diagnosis.
  • (13) Although uncommon, the occurrence of seizures and elevated aminotransferase values are potentially serious side effects of clomipramine.
  • (14) Following the surgery, one patient continued to exhibit PLEDs but clinical seizures were absent PLEDs recurred in the second patient due to inadequate anticonvulsant medication.
  • (15) During well-coordinated neurological and psychiatric treatment the laughing seizures (spontaneous, event-related, psychogenic) decreased and a considerable improvement in psychiatric and psychosocial problems was attained.
  • (16) CNS excitation and seizures, manifestations of organochlorine intoxication, can occur following ingestion or inappropriate application of the 1 per cent topical formulation of lindane used to treat scabies and lice.
  • (17) Facial twitch was followed by the generalized convulsion, further progressing to trembling of the limbs and then kicking of the hindlimb (full seizure) after 55 days of age.
  • (18) The additional value of these methods, especially of the intensive monitoring, lies also in the possibility of compiling new knowledge about semiology and electro-clinical correlation of epileptic seizures, possible trigger mechanisms and long-term therapeutic effects.
  • (19) Since pinealectomy has been reported to result in seizures in experimental animals, it is assumed that melatonin has anticonvulsant properties.
  • (20) The high positivity ELISA rates for cysticercosis in the CSF and in the patients serum with epilepsy indicate that neurocysticercosis is an important seizure cause in Londrina, PR.