What's the difference between rob and yob?

Rob


Definition:

  • (n.) The inspissated juice of ripe fruit, obtained by evaporation of the juice over a fire till it acquires the consistence of a sirup. It is sometimes mixed with honey or sugar.
  • (v. t.) To take (something) away from by force; to strip by stealing; to plunder; to pillage; to steal from.
  • (v. t.) To take the property of (any one) from his person, or in his presence, feloniously, and against his will, by violence or by putting him in fear.
  • (v. t.) To deprive of, or withhold from, unjustly or injuriously; to defraud; as, to rob one of his rest, or of his good name; a tree robs the plants near it of sunlight.
  • (v. i.) To take that which belongs to another, without right or permission, esp. by violence.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Here's Dominic's full story: US unemployment rate drops to lowest level in six years as 288,000 jobs added Michael McKee (@mckonomy) BNP economists say jobless rate would have been 6.8% if not for drop in participation rate May 2, 2014 2.20pm BST ING's Rob Carnell is also struck by the "extraordinary weakness" of US wage growth .
  • (2) When I told my friend Rob that I was coming to visit him in Rio, I suggested we try something a bit different to going to the beach every day and drinking caipirinhas until three in the morning.
  • (3) One of those was Fon, an independent retailer in Sheffield run by Steve Beckett and Rob Mitchell.
  • (4) Here's Rob Booth talking to me from there: Updated at 6.31pm BST 6.14pm BST Disappointment at the Ecuadorian embassy Outside the Ecuador embassy in Knightsbridge a handful of Assange supporters greeted the decision with disappointment.
  • (5) There was already simmering anger over the deaths of civilians in US drone attacks aimed at alleged terrorists inside Pakistan and over an incident in February in which a CIA contractor, Raymond Davis, shot dead two men on the street in Lahore he said were trying to rob him.
  • (6) Results indicate that 75% of the participating boys and 10% of participating girls had witnessed the shooting, stabbing, robbing, or killing of another person in their own lives.
  • (7) A number of MPs and senior party figures supported a wrecking amendment that would have robbed the motion of its primary purpose, opponents said.
  • (8) "Weirdly, we sold it to lots of European countries where there's not only the issue about knowing who Steve and Rob are, but I assume all the impressions are slightly lost on them.
  • (9) He was in Cruise of the Gods with Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon and David Walliams and, most famously, in the stage and screen version of The History Boys.
  • (10) The other rowers in the Arctic crew were Billy Gammon, 37, from Cornwall; Rob Sleep, 38, and British army officer Captain David Mans, 28, both from Hampshire.
  • (11) The officials released them from their obligation after the Guardian on Sunday reported that Davis was a CIA agen t. Davis shot dead two Pakistanis in Lahore last month who he says had been trying to rob him.
  • (12) Incumbents facing competitive re-election battles in November, including Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Marco Rubio of Florida, Rob Portman of Ohio, John McCain of Arizona and Richard Burr of North Carolina, voted for that bill, which had the backing of the NRA.
  • (13) A case of mixed semi-specific cutaneous myiasis produced by larvae from Calliphora vicina Rob.-Desv.
  • (14) Rob Fisher, head of UK personal investments at Fidelity, thinks tax considerations alone make it worthwhile using the full limit.
  • (15) The ROB-1 beta-lactamase-encoding plasmids from eight Pasteurella and two Haemophilus strains were compared by restriction endonuclease and hybridization analyses.
  • (16) The military prosecutor, major Rob Stelle, told the court: "Sergeant Gibbs had a charisma, he had a 'follow me' personality.
  • (17) The zoologist Rob Wiliams, who is one of the few people to have seen members of the uncontacted tribes, says franker discussions with and about indigenous people forced into transition are vital because once tribes have access to roads, guns and healthcare, their numbers grow rapidly and so does their impact on other species.
  • (18) Jane Baxter's stuffed courgette flowers Stuffed courgette flowers Photograph: Rob White You can't get much more summery than courgette flowers – Jane Baxter's take on these light crispy fried delights (use a vegetarian parmesan-style cheese ).
  • (19) Rob DiGiovanni, who heads a marine mammal rescue group on Long Island, said he was seeing "more evidence of ship strikes and that's definitely a concern".
  • (20) Rob Dobson, senior economist at Markit, said: "The Bank of England will also not be overly worried by the weaker numbers.

Yob


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Tory toffs repelling undesirable immigrants, providing better schools, using welfare reform as a pathway to work, clearing vandals, yobs and drunks from the streets and standing up to our masters in Brussels would be very popular, and the word would soon be forgotten.
  • (2) Hailed by Duncan Smith and rightwing London as the incentive that would propel the unemployed into work, universal credit has become Whitehall's equivalent of a layabout yob: nothing can make it work.
  • (3) Reproductive history, as reported from a validated postal questionnaire, was obtained from 204 women with scleroderma [mean year of birth (yob) 1942] and compared to that reported by 233 women with primary Raynaud's phenomenon (mean yob 1948) and 189 healthy women from a population register (mean yob 1950).
  • (4) I also think Anzacs were racist yobs and Anzac Day is a death cult.
  • (5) The distinctive check, which dates back to the 1920s, had also become uniform of choice for yobs and football hooligans.
  • (6) What happened to such worn-out old tropes as feral youth, yob culture, and the prime minister's own golden oldie, broken Britain?
  • (7) It comes to something when a documentary series featuring yobs, truants, swearing at teachers, swearing by teachers, cyber-bullying and teenage pregnancy makes you believe in the education system again.
  • (8) I hope the FIA are considering the implications of this fully and that events in Bahrain are not seen as they are often sold, as a bunch of yobs throwing Molotov cocktails, because that's a gross simplification.
  • (9) Yob, who guided delegate strategy for Rand Paul’s failed presidential campaign this year and is also the author of Campaign Chaos , a book on a potential contested convention, told the Guardian that one of the key tells for a successful delegate effort was “how effective campaigns are at keeping Sinos from being elected”.
  • (10) Other nations think we are yobs who go over there to drink and fight, but that's only the few who spoil it for the rest.
  • (11) Ed Miliband , the Labour leader, accused the prime minister of "total double standards", during prime minister's questions, saying he would be the first to back police for locking up a "yob" who swore at officers, but is refusing to sack his chief whip for the same conduct.
  • (12) Pointing to Mitchell, who sat near Cameron on the government front bench, Miliband said that if a "yob in a city centre" had abused and ranted at an officer in the way Mitchell had done, "the chances are they would be arrested and placed in the back of a police van — and rightly so.
  • (13) But while it's a night in the cell for the yob, it's a night at the Carlton Club for the chief whip.
  • (14) But the suspicion lurks that, just as McEnroe seems to have been contractually obliged to have an outburst or two on the veterans’ tour, so the youthful Kyrgios could easily be groomed for a perceived yob-shaped hole in the branding market.
  • (15) It's a very modern solution to a very old problem, for in towns and cities up and down the land, yobs have long claimed the right to cause drunken mayhem in shops and restaurants run by visible minorities.
  • (16) When you look back in history, highly contested conventions tended to be a disadvantage to the party that had them,” Yob said – although he noted there were exceptions, the most recent being Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s White House victory after a multi-ballot convention in 1932.
  • (17) Campaigns have to take care to not just make the ballot in every state but to fill their slates of delegates with names and ensure that those delegates pledged to them are actual supporters and not what veteran Republican strategist John Yob calls “supporters in name only”, or Sinos.
  • (18) As Yob noted, delegations such as those from Guam, American Samoa and the Virgin Islands (where he is standing to be a delegate) will play a crucial role as a result.
  • (19) She’d claimed that I was drunk and disorderly and throwing food around like some yob,” Coe recalled.
  • (20) Behind the far-left yobs, who disgrace every good cause in Britain, the protesters who did not riot in Parliament Square on Thursday looked almost pitiable.

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