What's the difference between convict and felon?

Convict


Definition:

  • (p.a.) Proved or found guilty; convicted.
  • (n.) A person proved guilty of a crime alleged against him; one legally convicted or sentenced to punishment for some crime.
  • (n.) A criminal sentenced to penal servitude.
  • (v. t.) To prove or find guilty of an offense or crime charged; to pronounce guilty, as by legal decision, or by one's conscience.
  • (v. t.) To prove or show to be false; to confute; to refute.
  • (v. t.) To demonstrate by proof or evidence; to prove.
  • (v. t.) To defeat; to doom to destruction.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That motivation is echoed by Nicola Saunders, 25, an Edinburgh University graduate who has just been called to the bar to practise as a barrister and is tutoring Moses, an ex-convict, in maths.
  • (2) A 76-year-old British national has been held in an Iranian jail for more than four years and convicted of spying, his family has revealed, as they seek to draw attention to the plight of a man they describe as one of the “oldest and loneliest prisoners in Iran”.
  • (3) The Mexican government has said that it “strongly rejects” the scheduled execution in Texas of a Mexican man convicted of killing a police officer .
  • (4) Eleven US soldiers have been convicted in the Abu Ghraib scandal.
  • (5) Butler was convicted of grevious bodily harm and child cruelty, and sentenced to prison.
  • (6) Having already seen off the Winklevoss twins who claimed he stole the idea for Facebook from them , Zuckerberg now faces a convicted fraudster who says he has a contract giving him 84% of the social network.
  • (7) In my party there are no red lines, only firm convictions,” he declared.
  • (8) As for his detention following a possible conviction … although Mr Aswat would have access to mental health services regardless of which prison he was be detained in, his extradition to a country where he had no ties and where he would face an uncertain future in an as yet undetermined institution, and possibly be subjected to the highly restrictive regime in ADX Florence, would violate article 3 of the convention."
  • (9) Its investigations have also resulted in 107 officials in the law enforcement agencies being convicted.
  • (10) There are no cases Money could uncover of people convicted for slipping a dodgy £1 into a vending machine or palming one off to their newsagent, but criminal gangs have been jailed for manufacturing fake coins.
  • (11) No one was convicted of a crime, or even arrested before her death, although the identities of the main culprits were known to police and council officials.
  • (12) With the first prosecutions under way in the UK and Guinea-Bissau , an increased focus on strengthening the law in Kenya , and a rare conviction in Uganda , positive moves are being made in several countries to implement laws that ban female genital mutilation (FGM).
  • (13) The experts' public report will include recommendations for particularly difficult removal requests (such as criminal convictions); thoughts on the implications of the court's decision for European internet users, news publishers, search engines and others; and procedural steps that could improve accountability and transparency for websites and citizens.
  • (14) A DWI conviction may also stimulate the drunk driver to seek treatment for alcoholism.
  • (15) Of the 781 tattooed men, 62% had tattoos on their forearms, 34.2% had self-injured scars on their bodies, and 18.6% had criminal convictions.
  • (16) Whatever conclusion the crowd might have drawn, what's striking is that Tempest's poem couldn't be ignored: the conviction and drama of her performance forced a reaction and coloured the rest of the evening.
  • (17) 'Devastated' Peter Greste calls on Egypt's president to pardon trio Read more “It’s ironic that the conviction was for tarnishing Egypt’s reputation when ... this [case] is what’s tarnished Egypt’s image,” Clooney told BBC News.
  • (18) More adequate talks and correspondence by letter or through the telephone, a better compensation for the prison work, the convict representation in some sectors of intramural life, the measures as an alternative to enprisonment, all these actions represent the practical results of the reform achieved so far in a rather satisfactory way.
  • (19) He just never dreamed it would be life without parole.” Obama reduces sentences of 46 inmates convicted of nonviolent drug crimes Read more As his sister put it, Bennett “got caught up” in a five-man drug ring run by an old friend, John Hansley, to pay for his addiction to crack.
  • (20) Kambanda and several members of his cabinet were convicted of genocide by an international tribunal .

Felon


Definition:

  • (a.) A person who has committed a felony.
  • (a.) A person guilty or capable of heinous crime.
  • (a.) A kind of whitlow; a painful imflammation of the periosteum of a finger, usually of the last joint.
  • (a.) Characteristic of a felon; malignant; fierce; malicious; cruel; traitorous; disloyal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Experts say there are other arms of the federal octopus that could be squeezed in a bid to thwart Obama’s deferred action schemes, but even that would not affect the directive that tells immigration officials to focus on deporting “felons, not families”.
  • (2) Infectious causes of finger pain include cellulitis, tendinitis, paronychia, felon, and infectious emboli, which generally require antibiotics with or without drainage.
  • (3) It is concluded that the latter conditions occur in no more than two or three per cent of all felons.
  • (4) For sympathisers, who may or may not share his ideological beliefs, the hunger striker is the embodiment of injustice – a young man no longer seen as a convicted felon, but a victim wronged by authorities determined to quash dissent.
  • (5) Masih struggled to find work as a convicted felon stripped of his medical licence but last year landed a post running an addiction recovery centre in Petersburg.
  • (6) In a letter to Hernandez, Abbott warned that her policy risked unleashing dangerous foreign felons on to the streets of Texas and pledged to withhold future criminal justice division grant money, which last year was worth $1.8m to Travis County.
  • (7) Felons' scores on the Short Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test tended to be positively correlated with their scores on clinical scales of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personaltiy Inventory.
  • (8) Those lesions must be distinguished from milker's nodules, botryomycosis and above all felon because ORF disease never require surgery.
  • (9) Donald Trump rang in 2017 at a New Year’s Eve bash at his Mar-a-Lago estate with Joseph Cinque – reportedly a convicted felon who goes by the nickname “Joey No Socks”.
  • (10) Indeed, you’re still potentially a felon if you unlock a new device.
  • (11) Duane Ehmer, the Oregon occupier frequently photographed with his horse at the refuge, is a convicted felon banned from possessing firearms – but he, too, was carrying a pistol when he was arrested last week, according to the records.
  • (12) data are utilized to examine the processing of all elderly felons (N = 1,562) compared to felons twenty to fifty-nine (N = 160,413) to determine if elderly felons "get off easier."
  • (13) The court states that the felon had known about the rapper since 2006, but as he didn't file his lawsuit - which included Warner Bros Records, Universal Music and Jay Z as those who allegedly helped the hip hop star to fame with his stolen identity - until 2010 this was deemed by a California appeals court to be untimely.
  • (14) Ninety-two intravenous drug users (IVDUs) were identified from a study of 1,640 relatives of treated alcoholics and felons.
  • (15) Later, Batkid apprehended a known felon called Penguin before being handed the key to the city by an understandably grateful mayor.
  • (16) Subjects were 136 male convicted felons in the Kentucky State Penitentiary.
  • (17) Grave infections include felon, purulent tenosynovitis, thenar infections, septic arthritis and human bites.
  • (18) The Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) will be composed of three sub-indices: a statistical database, which will contain frequencies of DNA fragment alleles in various population groups; an investigative database which will enable linkage of violent crimes through a common subject; and a convicted felon database that will serve to maintain DNA typing profiles for comparison to profiles developed from violent crimes where the suspect may be unknown.
  • (19) From a family study of 286 alcoholics, 157 felons, 60 control subjects, and 1640 of their relatives, 130 solvent users were retrospectively identified.
  • (20) An idiot husband, a footballing felon: but Huma Abedin rises above it all | Peter Bradshaw Read more The close ties to such a controversial figure have made her a lightning rod for political attacks.