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Definition: THIEVES |
THIEVESPlural1. Of Thief |
Date "THIEVES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
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Theft, in law, is usually the broadest term for a crime against property. It is a general term that encompasses offences such as burglary, embezzlement, larceny, looting, robbery, and/or criminal conversion. Legally, theft is generally considered to be synonymous with larceny.In the common law theft is usually defined as the unauthorised taking or use of someone else's property with the intent to deprive the owner or the person with rightful possession of that property or its use.
As with other common law crimes, it is composed of two elements, the actus reus — the unauthorized taking or use — and the intent to deprive — the mens reas. Thus if one goes to a restaurant and by accident one takes someone else's hat or scarf instead of one's own hat or scarf, one has deprived someone of the use of their property and has taken the other person's property in an unauthorized manner, but without the intent to deprive the person (hum, this is a much nicer scarf than mine or he'll never notice the spot on the hat until he gets home) there is no criminal act (actus reus) and thus no crime. Note that there may be civil liability, by depriving someone of their property you may be liable for damages in a civil court, but without proof of your intent to deprive, no criminal act has occurred.
See also: motor vehicle theft
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Theft."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
- Theft
- Thief (video game)
- The Thief of Bagdad
- Thief (movie), a 1981 film
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Thief."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Stealing | Thievishness, rapacity, kleptomania, Alsatia, den of Cacus, den of thieves. |
Thief | Gang, gang of thieves, theft ring; organized crime, mafia, the Sicilian Mafia, the mob, la cosa nostra. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: THIEVES |
| English words defined with "THIEVES": Ali Baba, argot ♦ Betty ♦ cant, chummy ♦ Flash house ♦ getatable, getaway ♦ Infangthef ♦ jargon ♦ lam, lingo ♦ Open Sesame ♦ patois ♦ slang ♦ thick, Thief taker ♦ unwary ♦ vernacular. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "THIEVES": Alliance, ARCH ROGUE, Autolycus ♦ Black as a Newgate Knocker, BLACK JACK, BLOODY ♦ Cacus, CANTERS, Canting Crew, CLOVES, Conveyers ♦ DEAD CARGO, Debateable Land, DIMBER DAMBER UPRIGHT MAN, Drawlatches ♦ Ethnology ♦ FLASH KEN, Forty Thieves ♦ GAG, Ganabim, GIBBERISH ♦ Halifax Law, HEAVERS ♦ IMPOSITION, IRISH TOYLES ♦ KIDDEYS ♦ Ladrones, LULLY TRIGGERS, LUMBER HOUSE ♦ Moon's Men, Morgiana ♦ NATTY LADS, Nursery Tales ♦ OATHS, ONION, Open, Sesame ♦ QUEER ROOSTER ♦ Rhampsinitos, ROBERT'S MEN ♦ SILK SNATCHERS, SLAP-BANG SHOP, STOP HOLE ABBEY, SWIGMEN ♦ THE CANTING CREW, Thieves, The two, TO FRISK, TO WELL ♦ Wall, WARE HAWK. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | We've got to catch those thieves red-handed (The Great Muppet Caper; writing credit: Jerry Juhl, Tom Patchett, Jack Rose, and Jay Tarses) In order for there to be absolute trust between thieves there can be nothing (Entrapment; writing credit: Ronald Bass; Michael Hertzberg) I know who you are, Fenner - you and your big friend are just con-men, petty thieves. (Queen of Swords; writing credit: Durnford King; James Thorpe) New York loved William Tweed and hated him but for those of us trying to be thieves, we couldn't help but admire him. (Gangs of New York; writing credit: Jay Cocks) And thieves, Palmer (Funeral in Berlin; writing credit: Len Deighton; Evan Jones) | |
Lyrics | Meltin' in a pot of thieves (Gloria; performing artist: Patti Smith) Crucified between two thieves (A Pale Horse Against Time; performing artist: The Who) | |
Tongue Twisters | Thieves seize skis. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Thick as Thieves (1974) Thieves Like Us (1974) The Pudding Thieves (1967) Too Many Thieves (1966) Band of Thieves (1962) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Sign warning would be thieves and trespassers of the Squalicum Harbor dock watch. Credit: Fisheries. |  | The forty thieves or the common scoundrels of New-York. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Fallen among thieves written by Frank Harvey. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Had she fallen among thieves, it would have kept her safe |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Those goddamned Okies are thieves. |
As You Like It | William Shakespeare | Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Apart from the always-appealing handbags and briefcases, cellular telephones are a prime target for car break-in thieves. (references) | |
The advertising is directed, in the main, toward owners of older cars stressing the relevance of immobilizers and the like to protect their vehicles from opportunist thieves. (references) | ||
While immobilizer and transponder keys have decreased the need to install additional anti-theft devices (a notable characteristic in Italy due to its average of one car theft per minute), there is a strong presence of alarm systems and anti-theft products, both electronic and mechanic due to the abundance of old cars. Potential thieves seeking a car to steal are thus more likely to concentrate on the older, unprotected cars rather than take a risk with the new ones. Owners of second-hand cars with low-grade immobilizers are increasingly installing higher-end systems. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Poland | In May Andrzej Lepper, the leader of the Samoobrona (Self-Defense) political party, was sentenced to 16 months' imprisonment for slandering President Kwasniewski, Leszek Balcerowicz, and former Deputy Prime Minister Tomaszewski; Lepper was accused of calling the politicians thieves and criminals. (references) |
Human Rights | Senegal | On many occasions, vigilante groups and mobs lynched suspected thieves. (references) |
Afghanistan | Thieves were subjected to public amputations of one hand, one foot, or both. (references) | |
Political Economy | Madagascar | The gendarmerie has primary responsibility for security except in major cities and is assisted in some areas by regular army units in operations against bandit gangs and cattle thieves. (references) |
Travel | Kenya | Thieves on buses and trains may steal valuables from inattentive passengers. (references) |
Ecuador | In a rapidly increasing number of cases, however, thieves are armed with guns or knives. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Lebanon | Many foreign workers leave their jobs--which is not against the law--but their employers often report them as thieves to the police in order to locate them and force them to return. (references) |
Romania | The Romanian NGO Sanse Egale Pentru Femei (Equal Opportunities for Women) reported that cases of trafficking in children that it dealt with rose from 8 in 1997 to 43 in 1999. In 1998 the NGO Save the Children dealt with 101 cases of children, mostly Roma, being taken to Germany and Italy and being forced to work as beggars or petty thieves; however, there were no new reports of the problem available during the year. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ETHNOLOGY, n. The science that treats of the various tribes of Man, as robbers, thieves, swindlers, dunces, lunatics, idiots and ethnologists. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "THIEVES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "THIEVES" is used about 814 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 80% | 651 | 10,046 |
| Noun (proper) | 17.18% | 140 | 26,789 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 2.82% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Total | 100.00% | 814 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "THIEVES": den of thieves ♦ the forty thieves ♦ thick as thieves ♦ thieves latin. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "THIEVES": cattle-thieves, clock-thieves, horse-thieves, nectar-thieves. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "THIEVES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | крадци. (various references) | |
Chinese | 窃贼 (thief). (various references) | |
Finnish | varasjoukkue (gang of thieves). (various references) | |
French | voleurs. (various references) | |
German | Diebe (filchers, purloiners, scroungers, thieveries). (various references) | |
Greek | κλέφτεσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מערת פריצים (den of thieves). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tolvajok. (various references) | |
Italian | ruba (rustles), ladri (burglars, robbers, scroungers, thieveries). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | "街 (brothel, den of thieves, red-light district), "窟 (brothel, den of thieves, red-light district). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | まがい (brothel, den of thieves, imitation, red-light district, sham), まくつ (brothel, den of thieves, red-light district). (various references) | |
Korean | 도둑 (Crook, Crooks, thief). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ievesthay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ladrões (thefts), gatunos. (various references) | |
Romanian | sãriţi (help, thieves! thieves), hoţii (thieves! thieves), argou al hoţilor (thieves latin). (various references) | |
Russian | воры. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | lopovi. (various references) | |
Spanish | ladrones (theft). (various references) | |
Turkish | hırsızlar. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | John Chapter 10, Verse 8 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | PanteV osoi pro emou hlqon kleptai eisin kai lhstai all ouk hkousan autwn ta probata |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Omnes quotquot venerunt fures sunt et latrones sed non audierunt eos oves |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Ealle þa þe elles hwu buton þurh mecuman. wæran þeofes & scæðen. & þa scephyo ne gehyrdon. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | As many as han come, weren nyyt theues and day theues, but the scheep herden not hem. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | All even as many as came before me are theves and robbers: but the shepe dyd not heare them. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | All who came before me are thieves and outlaws: but the sheep did not give ear to them. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | John Chapter 10, Verse 8 |
| Cebuano | Ang tanan nga nahianhi una kanako, sila mga kawatan ug mga tulisan, apan ang mga karnero wala magpatalinghug kanila. |
| Croatian | Svi koji doðoše prije mene, kradljivci su i razbojnici; ali ih ovce ne poslušaše. |
| Danish | Alle de, som ere komne før mig, ere Tyve og Røvere; men Fårene hørte dem ikke. |
| Dutch | Allen, zovelen als er voor Mij zijn gekomen, zijn dieven en moordenaars; maar de schapen hebben hen niet gehoord. |
| Finnish | Kaikki, jotka ovat tulleet ennen minua, ovat varkaita ja ryöväreitä; mutta lampaat eivät ole heitä kuulleet. |
| French | Tous ceux qui sont venus avant moi sont des voleurs et des brigands; mais les brebis ne les ont point écoutés. |
| German | Alle, die vor mir gekommen sind, die sind Diebe und Mörder; aber die Schafe haben ihnen nicht gehorcht. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Semua yang datang sebelum Aku adalah pencuri dan perampok, tetapi domba-domba tidak mendengarkan suara mereka. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Sekalian orang yang datang dahulu daripada-Ku, itulah pencuri dan penyamun, tetapi domba itu tiada mendengar akan mereka itu. |
| Italian | Tutti coloro che sono venuti prima di me, sono ladri e briganti; ma le pecore non li hanno ascoltati. |
| Maori | He tahae, he kaipahua te hunga katoa i haere mai i mua i ahau: heoi kihai nga hipi i whakarongo ki a ratou. |
| Norwegian | Alle de som er kommet før mig, er tyver og røvere; men fårene har ikke hørt dem. |
| Portuguese | Todos quantos vieram antes de mim são ladrões e salteadores; mas as ovelhas não os ouviram. |
| Rumanian | Toyi ceice au venit knainte de Mine, sknt hoyi wi tklhari; dar oile n`au ascultat de ei. |
| Russian | чУЕ, УЛПМШЛП ЙИ ОЙ ТЙИП"ЙМП ТЕ"П нОПА, УХФШ ЧПТЩ Й ТБЪ'ПКОЙЛЙ; ОП ПЧ"Щ ОЕ ПУМХЫБМЙ ЙИ. |
| Shuar | Wi Táatsain Ashí Táaruka kasa ainiak winia shuarun kasamkatai tusa wakeriarmiayi. Tura winia murikiur Wíi shuar ainiak nu shuaran anturkacharmiayi. |
| Spanish | Todos los que vinieron antes de mí eran ladrones y asaltantes, pero las ovejas no les oyeron. |
| Swahili | Wale wengine wote waliokuja kabla yangu ni wezi na wanyang`anyi, nao kondoo hawakuwasikiliza. |
| Swedish | Alla de som hava kommit före mig äro tjuvar och rövare, men fåren hava icke lyssnat till dem. |
| Uma | Hawe'ea tauna to rata meri'ulu ngkai Aku', topanako pai' toperampaki-ra-hana. Aga bima-ku uma mposaile' pekio' -ra. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Misspellings | |
"THIEVES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: chieves, shieves, theeve, theives, thiege, thiele, thive, thrieve, trieve. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "THIEVES" (pronounced thē"vz) |
| 3 | -ē" v z | achieves, believes, cleaves, eaves, Eves, Greaves, grieves, heaves, leaves, misperceives, Neves, peeves, perceives, reaves, receives, recitatives, Reeves, relieves, retrieves, sheaves, sleeves, steeves, weaves. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-h-i-s-t-v" | |
-1 letter: evites, thieve. | |
-2 letters: evite, heist, hives, sheet, shive, sieve, these. | |
-3 letters: eths, eves, hest, hets, hies, hist, hits, hive, shiv, site, sith, tees, thee, this, ties, vees, vest, vets, vies, vise. | |
-4 letters: eth, eve, hes, het, hie, his, hit, its, see, sei, set, she, sit, tee, the, tie, tis, vee, vet, vie, vis. | |
-5 letters: eh. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-h-i-s-t-v" | |
+1 letter: heaviest. | |
+2 letters: shelviest. | |
+3 letters: exhaustive, kvetchiest, seventieth, thieveries. | |
+4 letters: harvesttime, heavenliest, hypotensive, novelettish, outachieves, overweights, seventieths, shirtsleeve, theirselves. | |
+5 letters: achievements, czarevitches, exhaustively, harvesttimes, heavyweights, hyperactives, hypertensive, hypotensives, overnighters, overtightens, shirtsleeved, shirtsleeves, shrievalties, thievishness. | |
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