What's the difference between kidnap and nab?

Kidnap


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To take (any one) by force or fear, and against one's will, with intent to carry to another place.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In early 2000, during the first months of Vladimir Putin’s presidency, Babitsky was kidnapped by Russian forces and disappeared for many weeks.
  • (2) But with a civil war raging and no one to protect them, most migrants are at risk of kidnap, extortion and forced labour.
  • (3) The kidnappings triggered worldwide protests and military assistance from western governments, but 219 girls are still missing.
  • (4) The killing took place shortly after three Jewish youths, who had been kidnapped in the West Bank, were found murdered near Hebron.
  • (5) As the gangs fragmented, many increasingly focused on extortion, kidnapping and human trafficking.
  • (6) The Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu , has vowed the militant Islamist group Hamas, blamed by Israel for the kidnapping, will "pay a heavy price".
  • (7) Blindfolding the American hostages, Asgharzadeh later admitted, was their first mistake – it immediately turned an occupying campaign into what looked like deliberate kidnapping.
  • (8) The diplomatic bag must only contain articles for official use (not kidnapped opposition politicians ), and the collection of information can only be carried out by "lawful means" (not by bugging the state department ).
  • (9) The country’s vice president, Yemi Osinbajo, was due to visit Chibok for the anniversary, said Yakubu Nkeki, the leader of a support group of parents of the kidnapped girls.
  • (10) Some Coalition MPs raised concerns earlier this year that transparency could expose wealthy business owners to security risks, including kidnapping , and the government prepared legislation to shield private Australian companies.
  • (11) We are in a hotel in Mobile, Alabama, a small town on the Gulf Coast where he and Danny Glover are filming an action movie called Tokarev , in which Cage plays a reformed mobster reluctantly returning to his violent roots when his daughter is kidnapped.
  • (12) He was charged with a range of offences including rape, murder, kidnapping, destruction of evidence, banditry and criminal conspiracy.
  • (13) I was chained up in a very painful position and had no means to know where I was, or even whether my pregnant wife – who had been kidnapped at the same time – was with me."
  • (14) And with the cartels come other nightmares: kidnapping, extortion, contract killers and people trafficking.
  • (15) One of the minors claimed he had remained in the car during the killing and did not know that the kidnapping would end in murder.
  • (16) Nigeria is “inching closer” to securing the release of 219 schoolgirls kidnapped six months ago, despite fears that reports of a ceasefire with the Islamist militant group Boko Haram have not come to fruition.
  • (17) Syrian TV said a jet crashed due to technical problems • A pro-government Syrian TV station says one of its cameramen who was kidnapped three days ago is believed to be dead while the others are being held by rebels near the capital Damascus.
  • (18) The Farc negotiators reiterated their insistence that the rebel leader Simon Trinidad, who is serving a 60-year sentence in a US prison after being convicted of kidnapping three Americans, be allowed to participate as a negotiator.
  • (19) Any application for special mission status is considered on its overall merits and may be accepted or refused on legal or policy grounds.” Lord Macdonald, the former director of public prosecutions who is acting for Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood as well as the FJP, said: “There is strong evidence [Sisi] is guilty of serious and very public crimes, including the mass shooting of demonstrators, forced disappearances, kidnappings, torture, the organisation of farcical trials involving mass sentences of death.
  • (20) Alone in his police cell, Yarris read a newspaper article about the rape and murder of Linda May Craig, who had been kidnapped in Delaware near the border of Pennsylvania.

Nab


Definition:

  • (n.) The summit of an eminence.
  • (n.) The cock of a gunlock.
  • (n.) The keeper, or box into which the lock is shot.
  • (v. t.) To catch or seize suddenly or unexpectedly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The illumination of the F1-ATPase complexes with NAB-ADP or NAB-GDP leads to the covalent binding of one nucleotide analogue molecule to the enzyme and to the irreversible inactivation of F1-ATPase.
  • (2) The frequency of antigen-reactive NAbs was about half the frequency of antigen-reactive antibodies found among the BlAbs.
  • (3) To answer this, we measured the effect of the differentiation inducer sodium butyrate (NaB, 1 mM) on proliferation, insulin content, secretion and biosynthesis, and the expression of A2B5 and 3G5 gangliosides by the sublines.
  • (4) Spindle pole bodies, arising by duplication of the NAB at the beginning of mitosis, are unstructured foci for spindle microtubules in mitotic cells.
  • (5) Forty-six of 63 aspirates from malignant tumors were correctly diagnosed by NAB, establishing a sensitivity at 73%.
  • (6) 38% of the administered radioactivity represent unchanged NAB 365 in the urine, whereas there are 45% in the plasma.
  • (7) Fifty-nine neonates with herpes simplex virus (HSV) infection were evaluated with use of assays for neutralizing antibody (NAb), lymphocyte transformation (LT), alpha interferon production, and virus-specific antibody (immunoblots).
  • (8) By day 2, AlGh, m5F, A12, A13 and AhGh cells exposed to NaB contained 1.5-, 1.4-, 1.4-, 1.2- and 1.0-fold higher amounts of insulin, respectively, and by day 6, 3.6-, 2.3- and 1.0-fold higher, and 1.2- and 2.4-fold lower, amounts of insulin, respectively, than control cells.
  • (9) Although their frequency was higher, tumors initiated during the period of LPS-induced NR abrogation exhibited greater reductions in NAb binding and sensitivity to NR than tumors from control mice.
  • (10) NaB, in contrast, produced considerable biochemical and morphologic differentiation along the enterocyte maturation pathway.
  • (11) Seven days after lesioning the NAB, sham operated controls and NAB-X lesioned animals were divided into 4 groups and submitted to 4 different stressors, i.e.
  • (12) These data suggest that treatment of some malignancies with combinations of RA with HMBA or NaB may maintain differentiation-inducing effects and decrease the problems associated with the achievement and maintenance of effective plasma concentrations as single agents.
  • (13) The effectiveness of alpha-mercapto-beta-(2-furyl)acrylic acid (MFA) and N-benzyl-N-dithiocarboxy-D-glucamine (NaB), used in combination, in the mobilization and excretion of lead was investigated in rats.
  • (14) The effect of sodium butyrate (NaB) alone and in combination with a glucocorticoid was studied on Y-79 retinoblastoma cells both in vitro and in vivo.
  • (15) In the presence of daunorubicin or N-substituted daunorubicin analogues, 3H-NAB-daunorubicin photolabeling of the 18.3-kDa polypeptide was inhibited.
  • (16) NAB II cells showed morphological alterations characteristic of herpes infection.
  • (17) The capital raising will see NAB issue 194 million new shares, which is around 8% of its issued capital, at $28.50 each.
  • (18) During the 24-month observation period 2 of 80 (3%) HIV-1(+) NAb(+) individuals progressed to AIDS and died, as compared to 5 of 21 (24%) of HIV-1(+) NAb(-) subjects who progressed to AIDS.
  • (19) Sodium butyrate (NaB), a 4-carbon fatty acid, has been reported to activate the metallothionein (MT) gene in certain carcinoma cell lines.
  • (20) Flat revertants of v-ras-transformed (KNRK) rat kidney cells, which express elevated levels of p21ras protein, were generated to high efficiencies with sodium butyrate (NaB).

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