What's the difference between homicide and killer?

Homicide


Definition:

  • (v. t.) The killing of one human being by another.
  • (v. t.) One who kills another; a manslayer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Rates for homicide have remained steady and have a distinct profile.
  • (2) Blunt homicide predominated amongst White females, who were substantially older than the Coloured and African subjects.
  • (3) Nevertheless, it is the black male group between the ages of 25 and 34 years that bears the brunt of both suicide and homicide.
  • (4) "They have sown confusion in police departments about when to make arrests, made it more difficult for prosecutors to bring charges in cases of deadly violence and, most importantly, they have been responsible for a major increase in so-called 'justifiable homicides.'
  • (5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Global trade unions called the collapse ‘mass industrial homicide’, while Vogue magazine described it as ‘tragedy on an epic scale’.
  • (6) fbi justified homicide chart Academics and specialists have long been aware of flaws in the FBI numbers, which are based on voluntary submissions by local law enforcement agencies of paperwork known as supplementary homicide reports.
  • (7) On Thursdays the black male-white male ratio for homicide was 1.43 and for suicide, 1.26.
  • (8) Two remarks from previous analyses are then made: the underestimation of the factor of depression in the homicidal act; and the need for reforming the practice of penal psychiatric survey.
  • (9) Violence has replaced communicable diseases as the primary cause of juvenile mortality and, currently, over 77% of adolescent deaths are caused by accidents, suicide, and homicide.
  • (10) CeaseFire placed two interrupters on the ground, and in 2004 there were no homicides recorded at all.
  • (11) Suicide was more common on Mondays; homicide on Saturdays and Sundays.
  • (12) This violent potential was reflected by the presence among the alcoholics involved of more past and present antisocial traits, a higher rating on the Nicol's scale of violence, more offences committed against the person and homicidal behaviour.
  • (13) As a result, the political situation is unlikely to change in the failing state of 8.5 million people, which is home to the world's highest homicide rate and a transit point for much of the South American cocaine heading to the US.
  • (14) If there are features typical of suicide, the medico-legal analysis of the pathomorphological findings essentially may contribute to the differentiation from homicidal injuries.
  • (15) The FBI’s “justifiable homicides” database is considered the best measure of cop killings in the US, but even the attorney general, Eric Holder, called the lack of comprehensive numbers “unacceptable” last month .
  • (16) Although the causative role of mental illness in relation to homicide remains a controversial and debatable issue, recent studies indicate that a significant number of homicidal adults suffer from serious mental illness, more specifically psychosis.
  • (17) The "work" includes cases in which he believes the Mexican army is responsible for some of the plentiful homicides and disappearances.
  • (18) Every one centred on the same group of middle-aged, mostly unprepossessing policemen in Stockholm's National Homicide Department.
  • (19) Second, we used detailed data from police files to examine the same associations for a subset of homicides in south central Los Angeles.
  • (20) In unnatural death cases the BAC under 0.05% was found in 64% of the suicides, 62% of the accidents, 54% of the homicides and 51% of the drug intoxications.

Killer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who deprives of life; one who, or that which, kills.
  • (n.) A voracious, toothed whale of the genus Orca, of which several species are known.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To investigate the immunomodulating properties of cis-diamminedichloroplatinum (II) (CDDP), we studied the drug's effects on natural killer (NK) lymphocyte cytotoxicity.
  • (2) To become president of Afghanistan , Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai changed his wardrobe and modified his name, gave up coffee, embraced a man he once denounced as a “known killer” and even toyed with anger management classes to tame a notorious temper.
  • (3) She was not aware that it was an assassination attempt by alleged foreign agents.” If at least one of the women thought the killing was part of an elaborate prank, it might explain the “LOL” message emblazoned in large letters one of the killers t-shirts.
  • (4) Natural killer cells (CD8+CD57+) as well as activated T cells (CD3+HLA-DR+) were significantly increased in patients with sarcoidosis.
  • (5) In our efforts to explore alternative treatment regimens for multidrug-resistant tumors we have examined the sensitivity of MDR tumor cell lines to lymphokine activated killer (LAK) cells.
  • (6) The isolated LGL were highly cytotoxic against YAC-1 lymphoma cells and this cytolytic activity was blocked by treatment of the effector cells with an antibody against natural killer cells (anti-asialo GM1).
  • (7) Natural killer (NK) cell activity was assessed in the peripheral blood of 20 patients with growth hormone (GH) deficiency due to a hypothalamic deficit of GH-releasing hormone (GHRH).
  • (8) Analysis of lymphocyte subsets by flow cytometry demonstrated Leu 4, 43.6% (T cells); Leu 10, 10.5% (B cells) and Leu 7, 13.1% (natural killer (NK) cells) in TIL.
  • (9) Abnormal synaptonemal complexes were seen in all 19 crosses of N. crassa and N. intermedia that were examined, including matings between standard laboratory strains, inversions, Spore killers, and strains collected from nature.
  • (10) In experiments using double and triple chamber cultures it was demonstrated that suppressive macrophages from advanced T8-Guérin tumor (diameter 5--6.5 cm) bearing rats produced a dialysable factor which suppressed the killer activity of lymphocytes from non-advanced T8-Guérin tumor (diameter 0.5--0.7 cm) bearing rats, as well as from nonadvanced h 18R tumor bearing rats and from Ehrlich ascites bearing mice, against T8-Guérin ascitic cells and, respectively, against h 18R ascitic and Ehrlich ascitic cells.
  • (11) These killer cells could lyse a wide range of syngeneic and allogeneic lymphoid tumour cell lines in vitro, and it was found that cell suspensions from nude mice were always significantly more active than those from normal mice, and that the most active effector population was a polymorph-enriched peritoneal-exudate cell suspension.
  • (12) These findings show that humoral factors that can inhibit natural killer cell activity in vitro are present in the peripheral blood of patients who have endometriosis; moreover, they suggest that the suppressed natural killer cell activity may allow the development of endometrial cells at ectopic sites.
  • (13) Trophoblasts showed low susceptibility to natural killer and lymphokine-activated cells.
  • (14) Lymphokine-activated killer (LAK) cells are generated in vitro by the incubation of normal murine splenocytes in interleukin 2.
  • (15) In contrast, TCDD exposure had no significant effect on natural killer cell function, production of interferon, or various parameters of macrophage function.
  • (16) To help understand host-tumor relationships in adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and to better define potential indications for interleukin-2 (IL-2) treatment in this disease, the relationship between the susceptibility of leukemia cells of 22 patients with ALL to lysis by allogeneic lymphokine-activated killer (LAK) cells and characteristics of the leukemia was studied.
  • (17) The police investigating the 1991 murder of the Oxford student Rachel McLean had a strong hunch that the killer was her boyfriend, John Tanner, another student.
  • (18) Interferon-alpha and IL-2 could enhance NK activity and IL-2 could generate lymphokine-activated killer activity at all stages of ALL; however, the recycling defect hardly improved with these treatments.
  • (19) I read somewhere that one of the actresses you admire is Charlize Theron and she's another great beauty who started out modelling but whose breakthrough role came when she uglied up [to play serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Monster ].
  • (20) The present work investigated the association between prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) from macrophages and its inhibition of murine lymphokine-activated killer (LAK) cell generation.