What's the difference between culprit and problem?

Culprit


Definition:

  • (p. p.) One accused of, or arraigned for, a crime, as before a judge.
  • (p. p.) One quilty of a fault; a criminal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 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.
  • (2) If the leavers are seeking a culprit, they need only look in the mirror.
  • (3) In the end, the culprit is Burma because it is Burma where there is an issue,” Abbott said.
  • (4) But 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.
  • (5) The mean age was 50 years, male patients were more frequent, the predominant area of infarct was anterior wall and more frequently the "culprit" coronary was the left anterior descendent.
  • (6) Since DES has been proven a culprit in offspring malformations, the burden of proof that oral contraceptives in general do not provoke similar offspring changes is on the health community.
  • (7) Previously the culprit had pressed her face into the ground, so that she aspirated particles of soil.
  • (8) In 3 cases with single vessel disease of the LAD, inferior wall of the basis showed reduced uptake of BMIPP despite the location of the culprit lesion.
  • (9) Director Charles Ferguson made his debut with No End in Sight, which spotlighted the US occupation of Iraq; with Inside Job, he identifies a different kind of crime scene, buttonholing the culprits in their palatial boardrooms and forcing them to confess.
  • (10) "Not just because it's wrong to expect officers to endure profanities, but it's also because of the experience of the culprits.
  • (11) The culprits can be easily identified in a dysfunctional Greece as well as among the dogmatists dominating the country's eurozone creditors.
  • (12) Ischemic electrocardiographic changes were more sensitive in predicting LV dysfunction with culprit lesion location in the left anterior descending or right coronary artery.
  • (13) Give it back.” A major culprit is de-industrialisation.
  • (14) Many entertainment trades have blamed the casting of Michael Fassbender in the titular role as the main culprit in the film’s failure to cross over.
  • (15) The origin of the hackers is still unknown, although North Korea remains a possible culprit despite denying it was behind the sophisticated attack that would have challenged even government cyber-defences.
  • (16) She puts this down to the common culprits: stress, depression and the mojo-sapping anxieties of the age of austerity.
  • (17) Sweet suspects another culprit in the gendered, highly sexist toy market is the male dominance at the top of toy and advertising companies, and in Pink and Blue, Paoletti suggests another intriguing idea: that the rise of ultrasounds during pregnancy has contributed to the triumph of gendered colour codes.
  • (18) "Culprit" parathyroid glands are those typically enlarged and histologically abnormal glands that are credited with causing PHP in a given patient.
  • (19) But the culprit cannot have sought simply to damage a wall or cause death and injury.
  • (20) When snipers killed more than 50 protesters and wounded 1,000 on the Friday of Dignity , it was the young who arrested the culprits; not one was attacked or injured, despite the anger and the blood that had flowed in the streets.

Problem


Definition:

  • (n.) A question proposed for solution; a matter stated for examination or proof; hence, a matter difficult of solution or settlement; a doubtful case; a question involving doubt.
  • (n.) Anything which is required to be done; as, in geometry, to bisect a line, to draw a perpendicular; or, in algebra, to find an unknown quantity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The evidence suggests a multifactorial etiology for this problem.
  • (2) Technical factors that account for increased difficulty in these patients include: problems with guide catheter impaction and ostial trauma; inability to inflate the balloon with adequate guide catheter support; and need for increased intracoronary manipulation.
  • (3) Tests showed the cells survive and function normally in animals and reverse movement problems caused by Parkinson's in monkeys.
  • (4) IgE-mediated acute systemic reactions to penicillin continue to be an important clinical problem.
  • (5) Recent data collected by the Games Outcomes Project and shared on the website Gamasutra backs up the view that crunch compounds these problems rather than solving them.
  • (6) This is a fascinating possibility for solving the skin shortage problem especially in burn cases.
  • (7) The results of the evaluation confirm that most problems seen by first level medical personnel in developing countries are simple, repetitive, and treatable at home or by a paramedical worker with a few safe, essential drugs, thus avoiding unnecessary visits to a doctor.
  • (8) Hoursoglou thinks a shortage of skilled people with a good grounding in core subjects such as maths and science is a potential problem for all manufacturers.
  • (9) Despite of the increasing diagnostic importance of the direct determination of the parathormone which is at first available only in special institutions in these cases methodical problems play a less important part than the still not infrequent appearing misunderstanding of the adequate basic disease.
  • (10) Inadequate treatment, caused by a lack of drugs and poorly trained medical attendants, is also a major problem.
  • (11) Other articles in the series will look at particular legal problems in the dental specialties.
  • (12) The problem of treatment oneside malocclusions of adult patients needs to concern of anchorange.
  • (13) This exploratory survey of 100 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) was conducted (1) to learn about the types and frequencies of disability law-related problems encountered as a result of having RA, and (2) to assess the respective relationships between the number of disability law-related problems reported and the patients' sociodemographic and RA disease characteristics.
  • (14) Psychiatry unlike philosophy (with its problem of solipsism) recognizes the existence of other minds from the nonverbal communication between doctor and patient.
  • (15) The evidence suggests that by the age of 15 years many adolescents show a reliable level of competence in metacognitive understanding of decision-making, creative problem-solving, correctness of choice, and commitment to a course of action.
  • (16) Many problems at the macroscopic level require clarification of how an animal uses a compartment of suite of muscles and whether morphological differences reflect functional ones.
  • (17) Fourteen representative cases of the problem are reported.
  • (18) In addition to the phase diagrams reported here for these two binary mixtures, a brief theoretical discussion is given of other possible phase diagrams that may be appropriate to other lipid mixtures with particular consideration given to the problem of crystalline phases of different structures and the possible occurrence of second-order phase transitions in these mixtures.
  • (19) This study examines the costs of screening patients for alcohol problems.
  • (20) Diphenoxylate-induced hypoxia was the major problem and was associated with slow or fast respirations, hypotonia or rigidity, cardiac arrest, and in 3 cases cerebral edema and death.