What's the difference between sin and sinner?

Sin


Definition:

  • (adv., prep., & conj.) Old form of Since.
  • (n.) Transgression of the law of God; disobedience of the divine command; any violation of God's will, either in purpose or conduct; moral deficiency in the character; iniquity; as, sins of omission and sins of commission.
  • (n.) An offense, in general; a violation of propriety; a misdemeanor; as, a sin against good manners.
  • (n.) A sin offering; a sacrifice for sin.
  • (n.) An embodiment of sin; a very wicked person.
  • (n.) To depart voluntarily from the path of duty prescribed by God to man; to violate the divine law in any particular, by actual transgression or by the neglect or nonobservance of its injunctions; to violate any known rule of duty; -- often followed by against.
  • (n.) To violate human rights, law, or propriety; to commit an offense; to trespass; to transgress.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Molsidomine and SIN-1 were tested in a thrombosis model in which thrombi are produced in small mesenteric vessels.
  • (2) These results support a hypothesis which proposes that ancestral SIN virus diverged into two distinct groups.
  • (3) Our studies show that SIN-1 and C87-3754 exert beneficial effects in a 6-h model of myocardial ischemia-reperfusion.
  • (4) Antibodies to all viruses were detected, and namely in these frequencies: SIN 0.9%, WN 16.9%, TAH 41.5%, CVO 23.1% and TBE 8.5%.
  • (5) As the later Spark might have said, a mortal sin against the commandment to love beauty wherever one may find it.
  • (6) The direct acting stimulants of soluble guanylate cyclase, sodium nitroprusside and SIN-1 (3-morpholino-sydnonimine), also increased the cGMP content of endothelial cells by 9.4 and 7.2 times, respectively.
  • (7) In superfused precontracted strips of rabbit aorta, methylene blue (MeB) or pyocyanin (Pyo, 1-hydroxy-5-methyl phenazinum betaine) at concentrations of 1-10 microM inhibited relaxations induced by endothelium-derived relaxing factor (EDRF), glyceryl trinitrate (GTN), S-nitroso-N-acetyl-penicillamine (SNAP) or 3-morpholino-sydnonimine (SIN-1).
  • (8) The likes of almond, blackberry and crocus first made way for analogue, block graph and celebrity in the Oxford Junior Dictionary in 2007, with protests at the time around the loss of a host of religious words such as bishop, saint and sin.
  • (9) These prostanoids were measured in platelets and endothelial cells alone or during their interaction, in the absence or presence of SIN-1.
  • (10) The haemodynamic effects of N-carboxy-3-morpholino-sydronimine-ethylester (molsidomine, SIN 10, Corvaton) were studied in anaesthetized mongrel dogs.
  • (11) The results indicated that both Sin B and Sal have inductive actions on drug metabolizing-phase I and phase II enzymes in mice and rats.
  • (12) Ten women with SIN were bilaterally salpingectomized.
  • (13) Analysis of the relationship between the pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics of SIN-1 suggests that an active metabolites is involved.
  • (14) The guanidine 3', 5'-cyclic monophosphate (cGMP) content (an index of EDRF production) was determined by radioimmunoassay under basal conditions and after acetylcholine (10(-5) M), bradykinin (10(-5) M) and SIN-1 (10(-4) M) stimulation.
  • (15) sin- mutants (defining six genes) were identified because they express HO in the absence of particular SWI products.
  • (16) We studied the effects of intracoronary injections of SIN-1 (0.8 mg), the active metabolite of molsidomine, on coronary artery diameters and coronary stenoses.
  • (17) Sessions included "naming the sin, lifting the shame" and "normal sinfulness or a sickness".
  • (18) The nitric oxide donor compound, 3-morpholinosydnonimine (SIN-1), was equipotent at relaxing the central and peripheral airways.
  • (19) Oxyhaemoglobin used for the assay of NO, inhibited the relaxation by SIN-1, but did not reduce vessel relaxations induced by GTN or iloprost, a stable prostacyclin analogue.
  • (20) A degraded SIN-1 solution that did not release NO was unable to block NMDA receptors.

Sinner


Definition:

  • (n.) One who has sinned; especially, one who has sinned without repenting; hence, a persistent and incorrigible transgressor; one condemned by the law of God.
  • (v. i.) To act as a sinner.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But, as the church itself proclaims, redemption is always possible for a sinner.
  • (2) We can survive this.” The bloodletting had names: two gunmen who came here to execute these “hundreds of idolatrous sinners” attending a “festival of perversion”, as Isis repulsively brands young fans of rock’n’roll.
  • (3) The two great Edinburgh novels - pre-Rebus, of course - are James Hogg's Confessions of a Justified Sinner, whose diableries and doublings take place partly in the Old Town's back courts and, though it doesn't mention the place at all, Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Neither has much in the way of urban geography or familiar landmarks.
  • (4) It was kinder and gentler than what I had been getting in my church up to that point with people telling me it was an evil spirit and I was an unrepentant sinner.
  • (5) It even featured one academic, Taj Hargey from Oxford, referring to Shias as sinners.
  • (6) The aim is to make you feel guilty, unclean, a sinner in the eyes of God, and of course in the withering stare of the preacher.
  • (7) Robert Wringhim In James Hogg's Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner , a satire on Calvinism, Robert Wringhim's religiously dogmatic guardian convinces him that he is one of "the Elect" – those pre-selected by God for salvation.
  • (8) Mr Clinton declared himself a sinner with "a broken spirit" as a result of his liaison with Ms Lewinsky, to whom he issued a public apology for the first time.
  • (9) And if it’s a choice then it’s a lot easier to demonize it.” Recalling how believing that he was a sinner made him depressed, Nesbitt said he “was buying all that hook, line and sinker and of course it makes you feel like you’re a failure.
  • (10) Reforms made under the Gillard government still allow religious organisations – including many schools and some of the largest employers in the country – to discriminate against those it deems sinners.
  • (11) If in the Bible, sinners "strain out the gnat and swallow the camel", in Greece the sinful powers that be strain out pensions and swallow lists – in order, of course, to make them disappear.
  • (12) We're all just a bunch of sinners crashing around in the darkness (5) .
  • (13) The Russian Orthodox church has called feminist punk band Pussy Riot "sinners", their concerts a "boorish, arrogant and aggressive" challenge to Christians.
  • (14) Yes, but the best summary, the one that comes more from the inside and I feel most true is this: I am a sinner whom the Lord has looked upon.
  • (15) That a homosexual -- man or woman -- is neither a sinner nor a sick person is the thesis of this paper by an authority on sexual deviation.
  • (16) When the game basically came down to one play, where the Ravens had to make a stop on 4th and goal and the 49ers had to convert a touchdown it almost didn't matter whether the younger brother or the older brother would prevail, which quarterback would later smile to the camera and say he was going to Disney World or whether or not Ray Lewis, whether you thought him saint or sinner, would end his career on a win or a loss.
  • (17) Haggard talked openly about what he calls "my scandal", but also clearly felt that it left him an undeserving sinner.
  • (18) We are all sinners ... the Bible phrase I use most is ‘you don’t pick out the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye when there is a plank in your own’.” In that formulation both sawdust and plank are sins – it’s just not a Christian’s business to go around dressing people down for their faults.
  • (19) I hate the sin but ah love the sinner," honked the freshly convicted Fiz, face sodden with snot, and with a final grimace of embarrassment John Stape gurgled his last, his newly bearded soul presumably passing through purgatory's rigorous decontamination process before ascending to the Dead Soap Bastard sty in the sky.
  • (20) These animals were not impossible symbols of righteousness, but sinners, like ourselves.

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