What's the difference between mutiny and riot?

Mutiny


Definition:

  • (n.) Insurrection against constituted authority, particularly military or naval authority; concerted revolt against the rules of discipline or the lawful commands of a superior officer; hence, generally, forcible resistance to rightful authority; insubordination.
  • (n.) Violent commotion; tumult; strife.
  • (v. i.) To rise against, or refuse to obey, lawful authority in military or naval service; to excite, or to be guilty of, mutiny or mutinous conduct; to revolt against one's superior officer, or any rightful authority.
  • (v. i.) To fall into strife; to quarrel.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Patrice Evra Evra Handed a five-match international ban for his part in the France squad’s mutiny against Raymond Domenech at the 2010 World Cup, it took Evra almost a year to force his way back in.
  • (2) Generals who have mutinied have seized the capital of South Sudan's largest state, Jonglei, and its main oil-producing area, Unity State.
  • (3) Yet the mutiny, for once, was not that of the fans in black and white.
  • (4) Just 53 people live on the islands, many descendents of the sailors behind the famous mutiny on the Bounty in 1790, but it is the marine life that attracted National Geographic’s Pristine Seas expedition .
  • (5) He will inherit a department in turmoil, in the wake of the dismissals of top administrative staff and a growing mutiny over the refugee ban among diplomats, who were circulating a draft cable dissenting from the executive order on Monday.
  • (6) The idea behind playing Di Maria so high, Van Gaal explained, was so he could stretch QPR with his pace, but United were a convoluted mess for much of the first half and the away end was verging on mutiny as chants of “4-4-2” and “Attack!
  • (7) Yet in cruising through qualifying, occasionally offering a glimpse of hope through Kane or Sterling but more often failing to quicken the pulse, Hodgson has quelled any talk of mutiny but will likely go into another major tournament with the usual nagging concerns.
  • (8) Informed observers predict that she will face a mutiny from her own party.
  • (9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Asserting British rule during the war of independence, also known as the Indian mutiny, 1857.
  • (10) Defiance is his default setting and Kompany denied his form has suffered – "I feel good," he said – and, while a former rebel, in Tévez, delivered the winner, he denied reports of a modern-day mutiny in the City camp.
  • (11) Fatty fivers and the Indian Mutiny Not since the Indian Mutiny of 1857 has there been as much fuss about tallow.
  • (12) Aston Villa have called a crisis meeting in New York to discuss how they can save their season after another dismal weekend for the Premier League’s bottom club and with a growing mutiny among their disillusioned fanbase.
  • (13) Ferguson replies that he spends many pages in Empire detailing the ravages of the slave trade, and quoting Indians who suffered in the Indian mutiny ("The empire book wears its learning lightly," as he puts it).
  • (14) The M23 consists mainly of soldiers who mutinied between March and May this year.
  • (15) A mutiny led by war crimes suspect Bosco "The Terminator" Ntaganda has been slicing through the region with apparent ease, terrorising and displacing hundreds of thousands of people.
  • (16) The soldiers, who were tried in a closed-door military tribunal, were found guilty of mutiny after refusing to help recapture three remote north-eastern towns seized in October.
  • (17) Sanogo took power on 21 March after a mutiny at the military camp where he is based about six miles (10km) from the presidential palace.
  • (18) In May 2002, when dissident soldiers mutinied against their commanders in the central city of Kisangani, Monuc troops did almost nothing as those commanders (including Laurent Nkunda) oversaw the killing of at least 80 civilians and a ghastly bout of rape.
  • (19) 7 Mutiny (The Family, 1985) While Nothing Compares 2 U is the most famous track Prince wrote for proteges The Family, Mutiny is the best.
  • (20) That’s what we want – not to give up when you have a bad game or a bad result.” Wenger’s reaction to the mutiny and fury mixed incredulity with resignation – although not the sort of resignation that his critics would like to see.

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.