literature | the profession or art of a writer, her place in literature is secure |
crime offense criminal offense criminal offence offence law-breaking | (criminal law) an act punishable by law, usually considered an evil act, a long record of crimes |
crime | an evil act not necessarily punishable by law, crimes of the heart |
Had crime | (Islam) serious crimes committed by Muslims and punishable by punishments established in the Koran, Had crimes include apostasy from Islam and murder and theft and adultery |
sexual assault sexual abuse sex crime sex offense | a statutory offense that provides that it is a crime to knowingly cause another person to engage in an unwanted sexual act by force or threat, most states have replaced the common law definition of rape with statutes defining sexual assault |
Tazir crime | (Islam) minor crimes committed by Muslims, crimes that are not mentioned in the Koran so judges are free to punish the offender in any appropriate way, in some Islamic nations Tazir crimes are set by legislation |
vice crime | a vice that is illegal |
victimless crime | an act that is legally a crime but that seem to have no victims, he considers prostitution to be a victimless crime |
war crime | a crime committed in wartime, violation of rules of war |
literature lit | the humanistic study of a body of literature, he took a course in Russian lit |
comparative literature | study of literary works from different cultures (often in translation) |
literature | creative writing of recognized artistic value |
literature | published writings in a particular style on a particular subject, the technical literature, one aspect of Waterloo has not yet been treated in the literature |
sapiential book wisdom book wisdom literature | any of the biblical books (Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus) that are considered to contain wisdom |
Talmudic literature | (Judaism) ancient rabbinical writings |
Sanskrit literature | Hindu literature written in Sanskrit |
Vedic literature Veda | (from the Sanskrit word for `knowledge') any of the most ancient sacred writings of Hinduism written in early Sanskrit, traditionally believed to comprise the Samhitas, the Brahmanas, the Aranyakas, and the Upanishads |
Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System MEDLARS | relational database of the United States National Library of Medicine for the storage and retrieval of bibliographical information concerning the biomedical literature |
Bachelor of Literature BLitt | a bachelor's degree in literature |
Master of Literature MLitt | a master's degree in literature |
crime wave | a sudden rise in the crime rate |
organized crime gangland gangdom | underworld organizations |
syndicate crime syndicate mob family | a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities |
United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention DCCP | an agency of the United Nations that promotes drug control and crime prevention |
United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Centre for International Crime Prevention | the United Nations office responsible for crime prevention and criminal justice and law reform |
confederate collaborator henchman partner in crime | someone who assists in a plot |
crime rate | the ratio of crimes in an area to the population of that area, expressed per population per year |