What's the difference between hangman and hangmen?
Hangman
Definition:
(n.) One who hangs another; esp., one who makes a business of hanging; a public executioner; -- sometimes used as a term of reproach, without reference to office.
Example Sentences:
(1) Of four hangman's fractures of the axis, three occurred in road accidents and were stable, undisplaced and free of neurological signs, with full recovery after six to twelve weeks in a cervical collar.
(2) In injuries above C 3, we would regard the axis body fracture with or without a hangman's fracture and a fresh fracture-dislocation or pseudoarthrosis of the odontoid process as requiring an operation.
(3) When he was found guilty of contempt of court last year for claims in his bestselling book, Once a Jolly Hangman , his youngest daughter emailed to ask: "Will they hang you Dad?"
(4) We report a three month old infant with a subtle hangman's fracture which might have been confused with primary spondylolysis.
(5) Liberals might shy away from this truth, but to that majority who would bring back the hangman's rope, a whole-life tariff is not "inhuman" punishment but the more moderate alternative.
(6) Of these there were 13 cases of odontoid fractures, 6 hangman fractures, 2 anterior inferior corner fractures, 2 atlas-axis combination fractures and 2 Jefferson fractures.
(7) Fifty years on, the debate over the penalty for murder – what replaces the hangman’s noose – rumbles on.
(8) The similarity between civilian and vehicular injuries was recognized in 1965 by Schneider who, together with his associates, reported eight cases; it was this group who introduced the term "hangman's fracture".
(9) The incidence of fracture was unassociated with drop, date age or hangman.
(10) Its wide indications include fracture-dislocations, compression fractures of the vertebral body, injuries to the disc, luxations, 'tear drop fractures' as well as "hangman's fractures".
(11) Radiographic studies revealed a spectrum of injury beginning with the classical hangman's fracture and progressing to the simple C-2 laminar-pedicle fracture.
(12) Etiologies included os odontoideum, fixed rotatory subluxation, atlantoaxial subluxation, type II dens fracture nonunion, and nonunion of a Hangman's fracture.
(13) The authors review their experience in managing 26 cases of "hangman's fracture."
(14) The various forms of strain which cause the phenomenon of the hangman's fracture are discussed in detail.
(15) The anti-homosexuality bill had been dangled over the heads of gay Ugandans like a hangman's noose for five years.
(16) In 2007, the Sun had carried a frontpage image on polling day likening the SNP's looped logo to a hangman's noose with the words: "Vote SNP today and you put Scotland's head in a noose."
(17) Describing transparency around the process as “fundamentally important” to analyses of an execution’s constitutionality, Bye accused Missouri of hiding “behind the hangman’s cloak”.
(18) The international literature calls "Hangman's fracture" (HF) the injury of the upper cervical spine with characteristic lesions of the epistropheus.
(20) 45% of cases interest the upper cervical spine (C1-C2) with a high proportion of odontoid process fractures (60%) and Hangman's fractures (30%); 54% of cases concern the lower cervical spine (C3-C7) with an important part of fracture-luxation (72%), specially C5-C6 (35%).
Hangmen
Definition:
(pl. ) of Hangman
Example Sentences:
(1) According to Iraqi prosecutor Munqith al-Faroon there were 14 Iraqi officials present at the execution, including himself and another prosecutor, as well as three hangmen.
(2) Both men were publicans as well as hangmen, but had very different personalities.
(3) Steve Fielding sketches the outline of the family story in Pierrepoint: A Family of Executioners, The Story of Britain's Infamous Hangmen (2006).
(4) There were hangmen from each of the four powers: America, France, Britain and Russia.
(5) The two hangmen are often called out to Jamaica, the Bahamas, Cyprus, British Honduras.
(6) In an hour or so the hangmen will return to the block and enter the cellar-like room underneath the trap doors.
(7) The GMB, which backed Owen Smith for the party leadership , criticised the move, saying it would force the UK to rely on foreign dictators – “henchman, hangmen and headchoppers” – for gas, as well as needlessly stop the creation of high-skilled jobs.
(8) The anti-hanging demonstrators always assume that the hangmen will arrive at a prison shortly before the execution, but Allen and his assistant spent the night in the officers’ mess.