What's the difference between kneecap and punishment?

Kneecap


Definition:

  • (n.) The kneepan.
  • (n.) A cap or protection for the knee.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On a personal level, no one could grudge Snodgrass his hat-trick in Malta after the kneecap injury that earlier disrupted his career and international journey.
  • (2) He got his first phone when he was 10 as he broke his kneecap, and having a phone meant he could keep in contact with friends and family while he was recovering.
  • (3) Is it still called a knee-trembler at that age or is it more of a kneecap-shatterer?
  • (4) As Brodie waited to collect a back-pass, the mutt flew at him, knocking the Scotsman to the ground; he was stretchered off, having shattered his kneecap.
  • (5) The authors report their experiences of the surgical treatment of external femoro-patellar arthrosis with displacement of the kneecap, by recentering the kneecap, on knees that were not deformed as seen from the front.
  • (6) Twenty-two cases of external femoro-patellar arthrosis with displacement of the kneecap were treated in this way; in 18 operations, 14 results that remained favourable for more than 6 months have encouraged the authors to continue their trials and to abandon, at least for the time being, patellectomies and patelloplasties.
  • (7) The very core of the post-Brexit economy was being subjected to a fiscal kneecapping.
  • (8) The transplant is dissected from the patella joint surface and its feeding pedicle is formed of the soft tissues fixed to the outer kneecap border.
  • (9) The principal modifications are as follows: -The femoral section was given a concave shape in the sliding bearing of the kneecap and elongated proximally.
  • (10) With a broken kneecap sidelining Papiss Cissé until October, the on-loan Argentinian Facundo Ferreyra having barely played for Shakhtar Donetsk last season and young Ayoze Pérez still a novice, Newcastle look alarmingly lightweight up front.
  • (11) In the clinical practice in case of fractures of bones of kneecap, tip of the elbow, greater trochanter, base of the V metatarsal bone there has been substantiated an expediency of application of osteosynthesis by means of the octahedral wire cerclage with measured force of the fractured fragment compression, neutralizing the force of dysalignment.
  • (12) Chris McCann was given his first start since early March after recovering from a fractured kneecap and the midfielder played a pivotal role, winning two early free-kicks, the second of which was superbly curled home by Maloney.
  • (13) The Lib Dems were trying to "kneecap" him, he claimed, tearing his posters down and attempting to infiltrate his campaign team.
  • (14) "I worry I broke your kneecaps when I cut you down," she writes in Bough Down .
  • (15) Without the Dutchman and with Papiss Cissé still recovering from a broken kneecap, Pardew must now rely on Emmanuel Rivière – struggling to adapt to the Premier League after a £4m move from Monaco – as his principal striker.
  • (16) Bramble jutted out a right leg and the ball flew off his kneecap into the far corner.
  • (17) And, at the risk of meeting an irresponsible assertion with an inflammatory response, there plainly can be no equivalence between a distressing altercation on Twitter and getting kneecapped.
  • (18) In 2002, she was detained while videotaping the demolition of a neighbour's house, and suffered a police beating that broke her ankles and kneecaps.
  • (19) On the basis of three personal observations this dysplasia syndrome is described in more detail and compared with the other syndromes involving the kneecap and pelvis.
  • (20) Now, though, it has been kneecapped in a back alley by Brexit provos and its brand has been trashed in the anti-European press’s embrace of post-truth politics.

Punishment


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of punishing.
  • (n.) Any pain, suffering, or loss inflicted on a person because of a crime or offense.
  • (n.) A penalty inflicted by a court of justice on a convicted offender as a just retribution, and incidentally for the purposes of reformation and prevention.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Maybe the world economy goes tits up again, only this time we punish the rich instead of the poor.
  • (2) It’s not to punish the public, it’s to save the NHS and its people.” Another commenter added: “Of course they should strike.
  • (3) Alan Pardew faces punishment from the Football Association for his head-butt on Hull City's David Meyler.
  • (4) Anwar, who was not Sanam's father, admitted to police after his arrest that he put the girl in the cupboard as punishment and said Navsarka punished her in the same way.
  • (5) He could be the target of more punishing wit, as when Michael Foot, noting a tendency to be tougher abroad than at home, called him "a belligerent Bertie Wooster without even a Jeeves to restrain him."
  • (6) In many countries, male same-sex relationships are punishable by 10 years behind bars; in at least two, the penalty is death.
  • (7) There is a mutual interest in keeping prosperity that exists and has built over the years.” But Pisani-Ferry said Macron would certainly not seek to punish Britain.
  • (8) "We have Revolutionary Guards who defied orders, though they were severely punished, expelled from the force and taken to prison," he says.
  • (9) Initial acceleration of the DRL responding appeared to be due to adventitious punishment of collateral behavior which was observed between the bar-presses.
  • (10) As the last two people executed in Britain, the macabre anniversary of their deaths at Strangeways prison in Manchester and Walton prison in Liverpool is generating more publicity than their crime and punishment ever did at the time.
  • (11) These cases fall into two categories: situations where offspring are provided with opportunities to practice skills ("opportunity teaching"), and instances where the behavior of young is either encouraged or punished by adults ("coaching").
  • (12) That led to the second breakthrough, as the once formidable laws of omerta - silence punishable by death - cracked.
  • (13) What punishment will Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain face?
  • (14) When we reached our summit, or whatever spot was deemed by my father to be of adequately punishing distance from the car to deserve lunch, Dad would invariably find he had forgotten his Swiss army knife (looking back, I begin to doubt he ever had one) and instead would cut cheese into slices with the edge of his credit card.
  • (15) If America can decide the punishment for Osama, why can't we decide that?"
  • (16) There is also the issue of fair sentencing – if a person has a violent fight in a bar and is sentenced to an IPP with a two year tariff, and then finds himself stuck in the system six years later he has received a punishment three times more severe than the crime he committed in the eyes of the court.
  • (17) We are determined to make sure governors have every power at their disposal to detect supply, punish those found using or dealing, and enforce a zero-tolerance approach.
  • (18) They ended up exceeding that margin comfortably, surging to a 14-0 lead inside the first 19 minutes and then withstanding the inevitable Samoan fightback, with the Wigan wing Pat Richards kicking four penalties to punish their growing indiscipline.
  • (19) Many Halifax and Bank of Scotland current account customers face a huge hike in overdraft charges, which will particularly punish those who regularly go into the red by a small amount, it emerged this week .
  • (20) Albion rarely threatened, though Tim Howard was alert to Shane Long's first-time shot, but had several chances to punish Everton on the counterattack late on.