glossary
Antoine's Glossary
Now, I do some basic class, but later I will do Police Technology, it's an environment that works a lot with the laws. The police officers try to keep the safety of the population.This glossary contain words people can use in the police system and will help you to see what this program talk about.
- accused
- noun
- An accused is a person or group of people who are charged with or on trial for a crime.
- Example: Published by Le Corbusier and Ozenfant in 1918, ACCUSED the Cubists of turning to mere decoration.
- fr: accusé
- arrest
- noun
- The word arrest is used for action of seizing someone to take into custody.
- Example: His ARREST, as I have suggested, will often be made by a uniform "polis" whose physical handling of "the body".
- fr: arrêter
- autopsy
- noun
- An autopsy is a postmortem examination to discover the cause of death or the extent of disease.
- Example: The doctor does an autopsy report.
- fr: autopsie
- bulletproof vest
- noun
- The bulletproof vest is a vest that is capable of resisting to the impact of a bullet.
- Example: The police officer put his bulletproof vest to have more protection.
- fr: gilet pare-balles
- clue
- noun
- A clue is a piece of evidence or information used in the detection of a crime or solving of a mystery.
- Example: Police officers are still searching for clues.
- fr: indice
- coroner
- noun
- A coroner is an official who investigates violent, sudden, or suspicious deaths.
- Example: It discovered "that death certificates often do not mention asbestos diseases even when the CORONER has conclusive and documented evidence that they were the cause of death.
- fr: coroner
- court
- noun
- A court is a tribunal presided over by a judge, judges, or a magistrate in civil and criminal cases.
- Example: She will take the matter to court.
- fr: tribunal
- crime scene
- noun
- The crime scene is the place where an offense has been committed and forensic evidence may be gathered.
- Example: Fingerprints left at a crime scene.
- fr: scène de crime
- criminal
- noun
- A criminal is a person who has committed a crime.
- Example: These men are dangerous criminals.
- fr: criminel
- detective
- noun
- A detective is a person, especially a police officer, whose occupation is to investigate and solve crimes.
- Example: Detectives are anxious to interview anyone who saw the car.
- fr: détective
- drug
- noun
- A drug is a medicine or other substance which has a physiological effect when ingested or otherwise introduced into the body.
- Example: A new drug aimed at sufferers from Parkinson's disease.
- fr: drogue
- emergency vehicle lighting
- noun
- Visual warning lights fitted to a vehicle to convey the urgency of a journey when moving, to improve additional warning of a hazard when stationary, or to signal another driver to stop.
- Example: The cop put his emergency vehicle lighting signal that he is on an emergency.
- fr: éclairage de véhicule d'urgence
- evidence
- noun
- The evidence is the available body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid.
- Example: The study finds little evidence of overt discrimination.
- fr: preuve
- gun
- noun
- A gun is a weapon incorporating a metal tube from which bullets, shells, or other missiles are propelled by explosive force, typically making a characteristic loud, sharp noise.
- Example: It's encouraging to note that Schwarzenegger wasn't born with massive guns.
- fr: fusil
- handcuffs
- noun
- The handcuffs are a pair of lockable linked metal rings for securing a prisoner's wrists.
- Example: The police officer put the handcuffs to this man because he was trying to hit his colleague.
- fr: menottes
- hostage
- noun
- A hostage is a person seized or held as security for the fulfillment of a condition.
- Example: Three hostages were released but only after their families paid an estimated $200,000 to the guerrillas.
- fr: otage
- indict
- noun
- An indict is formally accused of or charge with a serious crime.
- Example: His former manager was indicted for fraud.
- fr: accuser
- jail
- noun
- A jail is a place for the confinement of people accused or convicted of a crime.
- Example: He served 15 months in jail.
- fr: prison
- knife
- noun
- A knife is an instrument composed of a blade fixed into a handle, used for cutting or as a weapon.
- Example: This man takes a knife to hurt peoples.
- fr: couteau
- police officer
- noun
- A person who has the fonction of enforcing the law, maintain order and ensure public sfety.
- Example: The police officer do radar.
- fr: officier de police