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bodyguard
English
Etymology
body +? guard
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?b?di???d/
- (US) IPA(key): /?b??di????d/
Noun
bodyguard (plural bodyguards)
- A person or group of persons, often armed, responsible for protecting an individual.
Translations
Verb
bodyguard (third-person singular simple present bodyguards, present participle bodyguarding, simple past and past participle bodyguarded)
- (transitive) To act as bodyguard for (someone); figuratively, to protect.
- 2005, Christopher Hitchens, ‘Burned Out’, Slate, Mar 7 2005:
- The same report, on a news page and not bodyguarded by any news analysis warning, goes on to say that repeated discoveries of cheating and covert activity mean that the credibility of Iran has been harmed.
- 2005, Christopher Hitchens, ‘Burned Out’, Slate, Mar 7 2005:
Romanian
Alternative forms
- bodigard
Etymology
Borrowed from English bodyguard.
Noun
bodyguard m (plural bodyguarzi)
- bodyguard
Declension
Synonyms
- gard? de corp
- goril? (figurative, derogatory)
References
- bodyguard in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
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patrol
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /p??t???l/
- (General American) IPA(key): /p??t?o?l/
- Rhymes: -??l
Alternative forms
- patrole (obsolete)
Etymology 1
From French patrouille, from Old French patrouille, patouille (“a night-watch”, literally “a tramping about”), from patrouiller, patouiller, patoiller (“to paddle or pudder in water, dabble with the feet, begrime, besmear”), from patte, pate (“paw, foot of an animal”), from Vulgar Latin *patta (“paw, foot”), from Frankish *patta (“paw, sole of the foot”), from Proto-Germanic *paþjan?, *paþ?n? (“to walk, tread, go, step, pace”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pent-, *(s)pat- (“path; to walk”), a variant of Proto-Indo-European *pent-, *pat- (“path; to go”); see find. Cognate with Dutch pad, patte (“paw”), Low German pedden (“to step, tread”), German patschen (“to splash, smack, dabble, waddle”), German Patsche (“a swatter, beater, paw, puddle, mire”). Related to pad, path.
Noun
patrol (countable and uncountable, plural patrols)
- (military) A going of the rounds along the chain of sentinels and between the posts, by a guard, usually consisting of three or four men, to insure greater security from attacks on the outposts.
- (military) A movement, by a small body of troops beyond the line of outposts, to explore the country and gain intelligence of the enemy's whereabouts.
- (military) The guards who go the rounds for observation; a detachment whose duty it is to patrol.
- (law enforcement) The largest division of officers within a police department or sheriff's office, whose assignment is to patrol and respond to calls for service.
- Any perambulation of a particular line or district to guard it; also, the people thus guarding.
- 1787-1788, Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers
- In France there is an army of patrols […] to secure her fiscal regulations.
- 1787-1788, Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers
- (Scouting) A unit of a troop, usually defined by certain ranks or age groups within the troop, and ideally comprised of six to eight members.
- Lord Baden-Powell of Gilwell (1920) Aids To Scoutmastership?[1], page 24: “The formation of the boys into Patrols of from six to eight and training them as separate units each under its own responsible leader is the key to a good Troop.”
Derived terms
- patrol leader
- patrol officer
- senior patrol leader
Translations
Etymology 2
From French patrouiller, from Old French patrouiller (“to paddle, paw about, patrol”), from patte (“a paw”)
Verb
patrol (third-person singular simple present patrols, present participle patrolling, simple past and past participle patrolled)
- (intransitive) To go the rounds along a chain of sentinels; to traverse a police district or beat.
- (transitive) To go the rounds of, as a sentry, guard, or policeman
Translations
Further reading
- patrol in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- patrol in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- patrol at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Portal, portal, pratol
Polish
Etymology
From French patrouille, from Middle French patrouille, from Old French patrouille.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?pa.tr?l/
Noun
patrol m inan
- (military) patrol (going of the rounds)
- (military) patrol (movement by a small body of troops beyond the line of outposts)
- (military) patrol (guards who go the rounds for observation)
Declension
Derived terms
- (verbs) patrolowa?, spatrolowa?
- (noun) patrolowiec
- (adjective) patrolowy
Further reading
- patrol in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
- patrol in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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