What's the difference between punishment and reward?

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.

Reward


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To give in return, whether good or evil; -- commonly in a good sense; to requite; to recompense; to repay; to compensate.
  • (n.) Regard; respect; consideration.
  • (n.) That which is given in return for good or evil done or received; esp., that which is offered or given in return for some service or attainment, as for excellence in studies, for the return of something lost, etc.; recompense; requital.
  • (n.) Hence, the fruit of one's labor or works.
  • (n.) Compensation or remuneration for services; a sum of money paid or taken for doing, or forbearing to do, some act.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We want to be sure that the country that’s providing all the infrastructure and support to the business is the one that reaps the reward by being able to collect the tax,” he said.
  • (2) This "gender identity movement" has brought together such unlikely collaborators as surgeons, endocrinologists, psychologists, psychiatrists, gynecologists, and research specialists into a mutually rewarding arena.
  • (3) Learning ability was assessed using a radial arm maze task, in which the rats had to visit each of eight arms for a food reward.
  • (4) The hosts had resisted through the early stages, emulating their rugged first-half displays against Manchester United and Arsenal here this season, and even mustered a flurry of half-chances just before the interval to offer a reminder they might glean greater reward thereafter.
  • (5) "The company and its shareholders have been handsomely rewarded for that."
  • (6) It is worth noting though that the government is reaping scant reward in the polls even though the economy has expanded by more than 3% over the past year and – according to the IMF – will be the fastest growing of the G7 economies this year.
  • (7) Despite a few initial concerns about the technology and how it would fit into their daily routines, staff really see the benefit and find it rewarding to see the messages and be able to respond straight away.
  • (8) The Treasury said: "Britain has been at the forefront of global reforms to make banking more responsible, including big reductions in upfront cash bonuses and linking rewards to long-term success.
  • (9) The hypothesis that metabolic rate, as well as foraging and recruiting activities, depend on the motivational state of the foraging bee determined by the reward at the food source is discussed.
  • (10) But mention the words "eurozone crisis" to other Finns, and you could be rewarded with little more than a confused, albeit friendly, smile.
  • (11) Six other rats were rewarded only if their sequence of left and right responses in the current trial differed from each of the previous five trials.
  • (12) Cats were trained to press a lever for 0.5--1.0 ml of milk reward both in the presence and absence of ambient light.
  • (13) He is 100% committed in every training session and that is why I rewarded him with the chance to play.
  • (14) As a result existing job definitions and traditional forms of organization are being challenged and attempts made to restructure work so that it becomes meaningful and rewarding in the fullest sense, to the individual, to the enterprise, and to society.
  • (15) Since these tumors are often multiple and small, angiography is not very rewarding.
  • (16) The reason to be an atheist is not that it makes us feel better or gives us a more rewarding life.
  • (17) The collaborative approach focused on rewards of behavioral change and minimized attention to prevention of negative behaviors, while openly valuing input from the women who are potential health promoters in their own communities.
  • (18) Not only is there a great need, but it is a personally rewarding and satisfactory experience.
  • (19) The glutamatergic mechanisms of neostriatum and nucleus accumbens septi play a minor role in attenuation of tegmental self-stimulation with droperidol, fluphenazine, trifluoperazine and clozapine but these mechanisms seem to be responsible for the suppression of "reward" phenomenon with haloperidol, thioridazine and aminazine.
  • (20) Free money offers The Halifax's £100 cash is available to people who switch to its Reward current account.