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# convict

«convict» in Mova's school dictionary: **for a court to decide officially that they are guilty of…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (convict, convicts, convicted, convicting; stress on «-VICT»); noun (a convict, convicts; stress on «CON-»)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To convict someone is for a court to decide officially that they are guilty of a crime. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/convict/#m1)

2) A convict is a person who has been found guilty and sent to prison. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/convict/#m2)

3) In history, convicts were prisoners sent to work far away, for example to Australia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/convict/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons in Australia and the UK, pupils learn that convicts were transported from Britain to Australia. In news and stories, courts convict criminals; a convict escapes from prison. Phrases: convicted of, escaped convict.

### examples

- The court convicted him of theft. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/convict/#x1)
- The escaped convict was caught in the woods. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/convict/#x2)
- Thousands of convicts were sent to Australia long ago. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/convict/#x3)
- She was convicted of dangerous driving. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/convict/#x4)
- Convicts built many of the early roads. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/convict/#x5)
- You cannot be convicted without evidence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/convict/#x6)

### note

Stress changes the meaning: CON-vict (noun, the person), con-VICT (verb). Noun «conviction» also means a strong belief. «Convicted of» a crime, not «for».

### In the corpora

- [In November 2019 Prince Andrew stepped back from public duties after a BBC interview about his friendship with a man convicted of serious crimes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/44-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-wedding-a-move-to-america-an-interview-and-a-book/22/)
- [Why be a convict?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/65-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them/6/)
- [In 1788 the First Fleet of eleven ships brought British convicts and soldiers to Sydney Cove to start a prison colony.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story/7/)
- [From 1788 to 1868 Britain sent about 160,000 convicts on ships to Australia, a punishment called transportation, sometimes for quite small thefts.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/84-gaols-magistrates-and-old-punishments-from-the-stocks-to-the-children-act-of-1908/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «convict» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/convict/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.