| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To hurt, damage, injure, impair or offend.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To prejudice. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To disadvantage. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To undermine. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To besiege.[Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Present participle conjugation of the verb harm.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (harm) | 1. Cause or do harm to; "These pills won't harm your system".[Wordnet]. 2. To hurt; to injure; to damage; to wrong.[Websters]. 3. Base verb from the following inflections: harming, harmed, harms, harmer, harmers, harmingly and harmedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "HARMING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1538. (references) |
Specialty Definition: HARMING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Hurting; injuring.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Present participle of harm. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: harm
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Actual bodily harm | Actual Bodily Harm (often abbreviated to ABH) is a type of criminal assault defined under English law. It encompasses those assaults which result in injuries, typically requiring a degree of medical treatment of the victim. The offence is defined in section 47 of the Offences Against The Person Act 1861 and it can be tried in either the Magistrate's court or Crown Court. There is a maximum sentence of 5 years imprisonment (or 7 years if it is racially motivated). (references) | ||
| Assault causing bodily harm | Assault causing bodily harm is a criminal offence in certain countries. (references) | ||
| Grievous bodily harm | Street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Grievous bodily harm | Grievous bodily harm or GBH is a type of assault resulting in, for example, broken bones or cuts to the skin. The phrase is widely used in British criminal law and was introduced in the Offences Against The Person Act 1861. The are two types of GBH: section 18 and section 20. The difference lies in the level of mens rea. To be found guilty of section 18 the defendant must have specific intent to cause GBH, whereas section 20 only requires recklessness. The sentencing reflects the level of intent. Section 18 carries a maximum of life imprisonment. For section 20 the maximum sentence is 5 years. (references) | ||
| Harm Jansen | Harm Jansen is a professional bicycle racer. (references) | ||
| Harm Lagaay | Harm Lagaay is a Dutch automobile designer. He worked for Simca in the late 1960s, then for Porsche from 1971. His work there was on the Porsche 911 and Porsche 924. He worked as Design Manager for Ford in Cologne from 1977, and moved to BMW Technik in 1985 where he designed the BMW Z1 sports car. He returned to Porsche in 1989 as head of the "Style Porsche" department in Weissach. As well as the Porsches of the period — the Porsche 993 (the 1993-1997 generation of the 911 for which Englishman Tony Hatter is also credited), Boxster, Cayenne, 996 (the all-new 911 of 1997), Carrera GT — he also oversaw the company's work for external clients. (references) | ||
| Harm principle | The harm principle is attributed to John Stuart Mill's most famous work, On Liberty. (references) | ||
| Judge Constance Harm | She is also famous for a quote-come-proverb: Don't spit on my cupcake and tell me its frosting. It means: do not tell someone that something is good for them, when it is actually bad, since they may just know. It may be based on Judge Judy's quote, Don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining. (references) | ||
| Number needed to harm | The number needed to harm (NNH) is an epidemiological measure that indicates how many patients would require a specific treatment to cause harm in one patient. It is defined as the inverse of the absolute risk increase. (references) | ||
| Penal harm | Penal harm, an intentionally harsher form of the "depravation of liberty", is the belief that during custodial sentences (mainly in prison or reformatory), inmates should endure additional pain and suffering, not just having their basic rights taken away, to make the punishment deliberately harder. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: harm
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Assault occasioning actual bodily harm | Law | An offence against life and limb in which a person causes an injury to the person or health of another, or commits an act of aggression against another. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Grievous bodily harm | Health | Gamma hydroxybutyrate (GHB). (references) | |
| Inflicting grievous bodily harm | Law | An assault in which a person intentionally inflicts a life-threatening injury on another or causes serious injury to another's physical or mental health. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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Abbreviations & Acronyms: harm
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | ||||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field | |
| HARM | English | High-speed Anti-Radar Missile | Military & Defense | |
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