Difference between Convict and Prosecute

CONVICT vs PROSECUTE: NOUN

A criminal sentenced to penal servitude.
A person found or declared guilty of an offense or crime.
A person serving a sentence of imprisonment.
A person serving a sentence in a jail or prison
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 person who has been convicted of a criminal offence
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.

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

To pursue (an undertaking, for example) until completion; continue to the very end.
To initiate or conduct (a civil case or legal action).
To initiate or conduct a criminal case against.
To initiate or conduct legal proceedings regarding (an offense, for example).
To carry on, engage in, or practice (an occupation or business).
To follow after.
To institute and carry on a legal prosecution.
To chase or pursue (a vessel).

To follow or pursue with a view to reach, execute, or accomplish; to endeavor to obtain or complete; to carry on; to continue.
To seek to obtain by legal process.
To pursue with the intention of punishing; to accuse of some crime or breach of law, or to pursue for redress or punishment, before a legal tribunal; to proceed against judicially.

Overcome; conquered.
Proved or found guilty; convicted.
To show by proof or evidence.
To confute; prove or show to be false.
To convince of wrong-doing or sin; bring (one) to the belief or consciousness that one has done wrong; awaken the conscience of.
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.

Be involved in
To follow up; pursue with a view to attain or obtain; continue endeavors to accomplish or complete; pursue with continued purpose; carry on; follow up: as, to prosecute a scheme; to prosecute an undertaking.
To carry on a legal prosecution; act as a prosecutor before a legal tribunal.
Synonyms To follow out, persevere in.—2 . To arraign.
To proceed against or pursue by law: said of crimes.
To arraign before a court of justice for some crime or wrong; pursue for redress or punishment before a legal tribunal: as, to prosecute a man for trespass or for fraud.
In law: To seek to obtain by legal process: as, to prosecute a claim in a court of law.

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

Sanction, Adjudicate, Criminalize, Prosecutorial, Indictments, Penalize, Sue, Persecute, Convict, Prosecution, Punish, Prosecutions, Indict, Engage, Pursue

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

Judgment, Trial, Judge, Indictment, Sanction, Adjudicate, Criminalize, Prosecutorial, Penalize, Persecute, Convict, Prosecution, Punish, Prosecutions, Pursue

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.

District Attorney may prosecute those particular criminal actions?
The decision to prosecute is a serious step.
Police Department choose not to prosecute arrested defendants?
District Attorney shall appear and prosecute the case.
Would you prosecute women who abort their children?
Either a decision is made not to prosecute or a decision is made to prosecute.
Legal Division to prosecute administrative cases and with District and City Attorneys to prosecute criminal cases.
LICENSEE fails to prosecute the same at its own expense, and LICENSEE may decide to jointly prosecute such action with BCM.
It gave advice on when to prosecute and not prosecute cases.
Prosecute: Prosecute Human Trafficking Using All the Tools.