Difference between Convict and Gaolbird

CONVICT vs GAOLBIRD: NOUN

A person serving a sentence in a jail or prison
A person found or declared guilty of an offense or crime.
A person serving a sentence of imprisonment.
A person proved or found guilty of an offense alleged against him; espeeially,one found guilty, after trial before a legal tribunal, by the verdict of a jury or other legal decision; hence, a person undergoing penal servitude; a convicted prisoner.
A person proved guilty of a crime alleged against him; one legally convicted or sentenced to punishment for some crime.
A criminal sentenced to penal servitude.
A person convicted of a crime by a judicial body.
A person deported to a penal colony.
A common name for the sheepshead (Archosargus probatocephalus), owing to its black and stripes.
A person who has been convicted of a criminal offence

To find or prove (someone) guilty of an offense or crime, especially by the verdict of a court.
To show or declare to be blameworthy; condemn.
To make aware of one's sinfulness or guilt.
To return a verdict of guilty in a court.

To prove or find guilty of an offense charged; specifically, to determine or adjudge to be guilty after trial before a legal tribunal, as by the verdict of a jury or other legal decision: as, to convict the prisoner of felony.
To convince of wrong-doing or sin; bring (one) to the belief or consciousness that one has done wrong; awaken the conscience of.
To confute; prove or show to be false.
To show by proof or evidence.
Proved or found guilty; convicted.
Overcome; conquered.

Offender, Punish, Judge, Prisoner, Sentencing, Defendant, Sentenced, Sentence, Prosecute, Indict, Conviction, Gaolbird, Con, Jailbird, Inmate

Detained, Accused, Convince, Prisoners, Offender, Punish, Judge, Prisoner, Sentencing, Defendant, Sentenced, Sentence, Prosecute, Con, Inmate

His opinion helped convict a lot of people.
Charges: felony domestic assault, false imprisonment, convict mittimus.
Miscellaneous convict ledgers, Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
Yet the convict does not openly acknowledge Pip.
Technically, to convict him of war crimes is to convict him of ending the war.
World Heritage listed Port Arthur Historic Site is the best preserved convict site in Australia, and among the most significant convict era sites worldwide.
In America, for example, incarcerating a federal convict costs eight times as much as putting the same convict on probation.
Historian Khalil Muhammad explains the convict leasing period and what it meant to be a convict in the system.
Various attempts to convict him of assisted suicide, however, were stymied by juries refusing to convict.
He then asked me if I could convict William Cummings; he said that if I could convict Bill, I need not convict myself.