What's the difference between mob and riot?

Mob


Definition:

  • (n.) A mobcap.
  • (v. t.) To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl.
  • (n.) The lower classes of a community; the populace, or the lowest part of it.
  • (n.) A throng; a rabble; esp., an unlawful or riotous assembly; a disorderly crowd.
  • (v. t.) To crowd about, as a mob, and attack or annoy; as, to mob a house or a person.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Levinson's film, to be titled Black Mass, will be based on the New York Times bestseller Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob , by Boston Globe reporters Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill.
  • (2) A s I watched Camila Batmanghelidjh being mobbed by the small crowd demonstrating about the closure of Kids Company outside Downing Street last week, it struck me that she was more like a character out of children’s book than a real person.
  • (3) Ellen Page is to make her directorial debut with Miss Stevens, starring Anna Faris as a teacher chaperoning a mob of high school students to a state drama competition.
  • (4) The Mob+ vector pME285 (10.6 kb) carries the aph gene and the Tn501-derived merRTCA genes coding for mercuric ion resistance, another good selective marker in Pseudomonas.
  • (5) The Ukrainian president, Oleksandr Turchynov, had given pro-Russian locals in eastern Ukraine until Monday morning to give up their arms and the buildings they had seized, but instead a pro-Russian mob took over yet another government building in Horlivka that day.
  • (6) Trump, embracing the spirit of the “lock her up” mob chants at his rallies, threatened: “If I win I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation – there has never been so many lies and so much deception,” he threatened.
  • (7) Numbness sets in.” Philip Hope-Wallace on Look Back in Anger “I must be the only playwright this century to have been pursued up a London street by an angry mob … There was an inescapable tension in the house.
  • (8) High among the range of issues was the media dominance of the Globo group (whose journalists were chased away from demonstrations by an irate mob), inefficient use of public funds, forced relocations linked to Olympic real estate developments, the treatment of indigenous groups, dire inequality and excessive use of force by police in favela communities.
  • (9) A conjugation mixture consisted of yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, E. coli harboring pAY101, and E. coli carrying a helper plasmid with mob and tra.
  • (10) The justice minister Dominic Raab said the Labour leader had promised a “kinder politics” but was now “whipping up a mob mentality”.
  • (11) We suggest that the contralateral projection nuclei to the MOB of the hedgehog, unusual in other mammals, and the large number of cells with axonal collaterals projecting to both hemispheres, may be a strategy in these animals to bilaterally integrate brain functions at the expense of its reduced corpus callosum.
  • (12) Tn5-Mob was introduced into the E. coli R1 host replicon via conjugation on membrane filters.
  • (13) For NP rats, a single dominant frequency component (induced wave) was present in the MOB EEG at 4-6 days of age.
  • (14) There is no better symbol of London’s macho financialisation than the early 21st-century surge in skyscraper construction, the lanky delinquent mob of new towers that cluster around the City, and their gangmaster, the Shard.
  • (15) Tn5-Mob mobilization may be useful in the study of metal resistance in bacteria, especially in strains not studied for resistance mechanisms.
  • (16) Republicans have for months been claiming the White House was engaged in a cover-up, downplaying the role of an al-Qaida inspired group in the attack and suggesting instead the attack was mainly the result of a demonstration by a mob against an American-produced anti-Islam film.
  • (17) The pars externa (PE) system of the anterior olfactory nucleus (AON) in a primate, Callithrix jacchus, was defined by its architecture and by its connection patterns with the main olfactory bulb (MOB) as revealed by tracing techniques.
  • (18) Much of the focus has been on a memo of talking points drawn up by the State Department and the CIA for use by Rice in television interviews, in which she blamed a mob rather than terrorists.
  • (19) Kagame regards Rwanda as the victim of a diplomatic lynch mob and accuses the British government of laying the groundwork by sending the BBC and Channel 4 News to file reports critical of Rwanda.
  • (20) As in mammalian MOB, the majority of TH-LI neurons were clustered in the periglomerular region and appeared to send their dendritic branches into glomeruli, which as a whole make an intense TH-LI band in the glomerular layer (GML).

Riot


Definition:

  • (n.) Wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar; tumult.
  • (n.) Excessive and exxpensive feasting; wild and loose festivity; revelry.
  • (n.) The tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by an unlawful assembly of three or more persons in the execution of some private object.
  • (v. i.) To engage in riot; to act in an unrestrained or wanton manner; to indulge in excess of luxury, feasting, or the like; to revel; to run riot; to go to excess.
  • (v. i.) To disturb the peace; to raise an uproar or sedition. See Riot, n., 3.
  • (v. t.) To spend or pass in riot.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But, in a sign of tension within the coalition government, the Liberal Democrats home affairs spokesman, Tom Brake, told BBC2's Newsnight that "if [the offenders in question] had committed the same offence the day before the riots, they would not have received a sentence of that nature".
  • (2) Loyalists are opposed to any restrictions and have blocked roads and rioted over the issue.
  • (3) It’s clear which way the ultra-right community around Ukip wishes to go: their timelines are full of praise for Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders , and blazing with imagery – both real and fake – of migrant riots in France and Sweden.
  • (4) The organizers of the protest march he participated in said the man had fallen ill before any rioting had broken out.
  • (5) Jana Sante, owner of Gisella Boutique, Peckham: "We received a call from someone saying 'the riots are heading your way'.
  • (6) The rioting began on Wednesday after a deadly argument between a Muslim gold shop owner and his Buddhist customers in Meikhtila.
  • (7) To counterbalance integration against the threat of riots is basically the Tebbit test without the sport.
  • (8) Communal riots are not unique to Gujarat, but the chief ministers of other states have not been blamed when pogroms have erupted on their watch.
  • (9) He was the peaceful activist whose sudden disappearance into a phalanx of riot police on a Baltimore street sparked a viral panic.
  • (10) It is the same article of the law that was used against Pussy Riot and can carry a jail sentence of several years.
  • (11) Ten years ago I felt I could understand why people gathered at Cronulla beach to protest on the day of the riots.
  • (12) Mohammed Salama, 23, an Al Ahly ultra whose leg was broken in the stadium riot, said it became clear at half-time in the match between the two historical foes that trouble was brewing.
  • (13) Tolokonnikova was given a two-year sentence for her part in Pussy Riot's "punk prayer" in Moscow's largest cathedral, calling on the Virgin Mary to "kick out Putin".
  • (14) Three members of the Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot are facing two years in a prison colony after they were found guilty of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred, in a case seen as the first salvo in Vladimir Putin's crackdown on opposition to his rule.
  • (15) To substantiate his claims, the author draws upon historical documents from the Second World War dealing with the threat to China from Japan's armed forces, and also makes reference to the race riots in Los Angeles early this year.
  • (16) Following escalating violence against protestors, in February the peaceful protest camp was cleared by riot police, resulting in at least 88 deaths in 48 hours; Yanukovych was later deposed, ahead of Russia's move on Crimea.
  • (17) Ursula Nevin, 24, of Stretford, slept through the riots, but was jailed for five months after admitting handling stolen goods looted by her lodger.
  • (18) You can argue about what constitutes a race “riot” these days – and why the hell we are seeing teargas every other evening in the suburbs, or Jim Crow-reminiscent police dogs in the year 2014.
  • (19) A prosecutor in north London who dealt with nothing but riot cases in the crown court for three months said: "Let's be clear, we could have failed.
  • (20) Shields accepted that the Irish appeared more inclined to send up their grim fiscal situation than go out and riot.

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