What's the difference between nipper and thief?

Nipper


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, nips.
  • (n.) A fore tooth of a horse. The nippers are four in number.
  • (n.) A satirist.
  • (n.) A pickpocket; a young or petty thief.
  • (n.) The cunner.
  • (n.) A European crab (Polybius Henslowii).

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When I meet Jean-Pierre (who is 63) and Luc (a mere nipper at 60) in a hotel in Paris, it is a few weeks before this year’s festival, where their latest picture, Two Days, One Night , will compete – though ultimately fail – to win a record-breaking third.
  • (2) According to Indigenous belief, Mick Rhatigan, a former policeman and linesman, and his two Aboriginal workers, Joe Wynn and Nipper, attacked the camp of another black man, Hopples, and shot dead eight occupants.
  • (3) Francis Barraud painted Nipper in 1898, and sold the painting and the rights to the Gramophone Company two years later for £100.
  • (4) According to this version, Wynn and Nipper attacked, using Rhatigan’s guns and horses, but without his knowledge.
  • (5) When prime minister Tony Blair refused to go on the programme, Liddle archly pointed out that the programme, despite 40 requests, had interviewed Tony Blair as often as "we've interviewed Osama bin Laden, Lord Lucan, and Nipper the skateboarding duck".
  • (6) The advertising strapline we created which sat alongside the iconic image of "Nipper" listening to the gramophone was "Top Dog for Music" and that's exactly what HMV was with record companies kowtowing to this all-powerful retailer, offering up millions of their own money to contribute to HMV's "co-operative" advertising.
  • (7) Rhatigan was released because he was found not to be involved, while an initial murder charge against Nipper was dropped when Aboriginal witnesses disappeared.
  • (8) Armchair executives may well say that HMV should have come up with a decent digital strategy earlier (these days, Nipper the dog would not be perched by a gramophone but plugged into an i-Something via a pair of white earbuds).
  • (9) The 90-year-old retailer, famous for its Nipper the dog trademark, has been hammered by the recession as well as online and supermarket competition.
  • (10) As the reaction to HMV's demise has shown, the brand, famous for its Nipper the dog trademark, still holds a cachet for many people.
  • (11) "It really is the end of an era," said Leonard "Nipper" Read, the Scotland Yard detective who successfully pursued the robbers.
  • (12) Bruce Reynolds often pondered on this and would remark how “Nipper” Read, the dogged detective who tracked down the Great Train Robbers, told them he reckoned they would have done it even if they had known they were going to get caught.
  • (13) On the other hand, as "Nipper" Read [the detective who was part of the team that investigated the robbery] said about us, perhaps they would have carried it out even if they had known that they would get caught.
  • (14) And if one of your nippers was his pupil, I think you would feel the same.
  • (15) It was taken advantage of this situation to remove the larvae with a pair of nippers.
  • (16) And he referred to Nipper Read's reflection that, perhaps, the Great Train Robbers would have carried out the robbery even if they had known that they were going to get caught.
  • (17) Part of that, even now, is down to the charm of that iconic logo, Nipper the dog listening intently to the gramophone, which inspired the His Master's Voice name back when Victoria was on the throne.
  • (18) Newly-erupted human third molars were fractured buccolingually with heavy-gauge industrial nippers or sectioned mesiodistally with a Leitz saw microtome and fixed in glutaraldehyde.
  • (19) 2.19pm BST Before Prince George was born, my colleague Josh Halliday wandered around London asking people if they recognised royal babies of the past and what they felt the new nipper should be called.
  • (20) Nipper, the mascot dog who has looked quizzically down the gramophone trumpet in store windows for more than 90 years, will no longer hear His Master's Voice.

Thief


Definition:

  • (n.) One who steals; one who commits theft or larceny. See Theft.
  • (n.) A waster in the snuff of a candle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is a gripping read from the opening, with the Ku Klux Klan menacing his pregnant mother, through to the troubled last months of his life: we follow Malcolm Little, common thief, on his journey to Malcolm X , inspirational leader.
  • (2) 8.41am BST Oscar Trial Channel (@OscarTrial199) Masipa says leaking of documents is disservice to justice, and that person who does it, is a thief.
  • (3) The popularity of criminal memoirs in the 1990s brought new opportunities and Reynolds wrote The Autobiography of a Thief in 1995.
  • (4) The following messages are elaborated: osteoporosis is a silent thief; backache during the menopause is not always osteoporosis; detection of the patient at risk for osteoporotic fractures is possible; primary osteoarthrosis protects against osteoporosis; bone densitometry has given osteoporosis a scientific cachet; bones are not stones, effective prevention and treatment are possible, there are alternatives to calcium and hormone replacement therapies.
  • (5) A suspected jewel thief was killed and another seriously injured during a police chase after an attempted ram raid at one of the London branches of the jewellers Tiffany and Co yesterday.
  • (6) He was dishonourably discharged from the army on a charge of indecency, roamed Europe as a vagrant, thief and homosexual prostitute, then spent a lengthy period in and out of jail in Paris following a dozen or so arrests for larceny, the use of false papers, vagabondage and lewd behaviour.
  • (7) In my part of the world, we have a saying that the man who carries a pot of palm oil from the ceiling is not the only thief.
  • (8) Representative Mike Rogers, chairman of the House intelligence committee, suggested Greenwald was a “thief” after he worked with news organizations who paid for stories based on the documents.
  • (9) Gina Rinehart's son, John Hancock, called his youngest sister "an oxygen thief", a Sydney court heard during the latest battle over control of the family's multibillion-dollar trust.
  • (10) The criminals For many years after the second world war, George “Taters” Chatham was Britain’s busiest jewel thief.
  • (11) Procrastination is the thief of time.” Last week, the chancellor echoed the exact same sentiments – “the sooner you start the smoother the ride” – as he announced a raft of Whitehall spending cuts as a down payment on the £25bn he’s planning to spend over the next three years.
  • (12) Ibori, a petty thief who rose to be one of Nigeria’s richest men, received a 13-year jail sentence in London in 2012 after admitting fraud of nearly £50m.
  • (13) Holder was fatally shot in the city’s East Harlem neighborhood while pursuing a bicycle thief.
  • (14) Another, Julie Behar, wrote that Madoff deserved a "sentence befitting a thief and murderer" while a Connecticut doctor said the entire retirement plan of his practice had been wiped out, leaving 140 employees with nothing.
  • (15) A few synaptic contacts between two adjacent chief cells are seen, and so are direct contacts between thief cells and preganglionic efferent nerve fibers terminating on ganglion cells.
  • (16) Incidentally, these sad long-term cases will do more than twice the maximum any court can sentence a thief to on Community Payback.
  • (17) You can wait until a cop gets here,” Bike Batman said he told the thief.
  • (18) The thief left the building unnoticed, then returned the artwork the next day by throwing it over the wall of the sculpture garden.
  • (19) But presumably the Sun also believes that you shouldn’t point out there’s a fire down the road if your own house isn’t burning down, and you should never chase after a thief who robbed the woman next to you if your own wallet is still safely secured in your pocket.
  • (20) He also called the incumbent president a “genocidaire”, a thief and a pyromaniac in a Facebook post that led to Bongo opening proceedings against him.