different between cadre vs squad

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French cadre, from Italian quadro (“framed painting, square”), from Latin quadrum, from quattuor (“four”). The American pronunciations in /e?/ may be due to a mistaken assumption that this word comes from Spanish or Italian, when in fact it is strictly French (the Spanish and Italian equivalents are respectively cuadro and quadro).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k??.d?/, /?k??.d??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k?.d?e?/, /?kæd.?e?/, /?k?.d??/, /?kæd.?i/, /?k?.d?i/, /?k?.d??/

Noun

cadre (plural cadres)

1. A frame or framework.
   • 1848, Parliamentary Papers (volume 27, page 283)

     […] He took away the frame itself, as well as the notice.
     Mr. MacCulloch. I recollect Mr. Dobrée stating that his reason for taking the cadre was, that the notice was pasted, and that he could not unpaste it.

2. (military) The framework or skeleton upon which a new regiment is to be formed; the officers of a regiment forming the staff.
3. (chiefly in communism) The core of a managing group, or a member of such a group.
   • 1997, Jae Ho Chung, China's Provinces in Reform: Class, community and political culture, edited by David S.G. Goodman, Routledge, p. 146:

     Finally, the exchange, circulation and education of local cadres constitute another key strategy implemented by the provincial leadership in its efforts to diffuse economic development into the backward inland region.
4. A small group of people specially trained for a particular purpose or profession.

Translations

Anagrams

• Cedar, Cerda, Cerdà, Dacre, acred, arced, cader, cared, cedar, decar, e-card, ecard, raced

French

Etymology

From Italian quadro (“framed painting, square”), from Latin quadrum, from quattuor (“four”). Cf. Old French querre, inherited from the same source; see also carre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?d?/

Noun

cadre m (plural cadres)

1. frame (of a door or picture)
2. backbone (of an organization)
3. box, square (on a printed page)
4. (business) executive
5. scope, framework
6. (military) cadre
7. context, parameters
8. frame (of a bicycle)

Derived terms

• cadrage
• cadrer
• dans le cadre de...
• décadrer
• encadrer

Related terms

• carre
• carreau
• carrer
• équerre

Descendants

• ? English: cadre
• ? German: Kader
• ? Russian: ???? (kadr)
  • ? Kazakh: ???? (kadr)

Verb

cadre

1. first-person singular present indicative of cadrer
2. third-person singular present indicative of cadrer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of cadrer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of cadrer
5. second-person singular imperative of cadrer

Further reading

• “cadre” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• carde
• crade

English

Etymology 1

From French escouade, from Italian squadra (“square”) (whence also French escadre).

Alternative forms

• escouade (archaic)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?skw?d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?skw?d/
• Rhymes: -?d

Noun

squad (plural squads)

1. A group of people organized for some common purpose, usually of about ten members.
   1. A unit of tactical military personnel, or of police officers, usually of about ten members.
      • 1912, in The New England magazine, volume 47:

        A squad of soldiers ordered them to disperse but instead of doing so they commenced throwing ice and rocks.

   2. (cricket, soccer, rugby) A group of potential players from whom a starting team and substitutes are chosen.
   3. (informal) A collective noun for a group of squid.
      • 1970, TV Guide:

        At one point, the 400-ton Calypso was brought to a standstill by a squad of squid which clogged the engines and caused a power failure. Other, highlights included an attack by predatory blue sharks, […]

      • 2002, Let's Go Inc., Let's Go 2003: Britain & Ireland, Let's Go Publications:

        The Sea Life Centre retains a squad of squid and such.

      • 2012, S. Louis King, Gnome Home Papers, AuthorHouse (?ISBN), page 546:

        There's several new symbols next to the doorway symbol. Beso pushed all six of them without waiting to see what they brought; like a herd of charging rhinos or rampaging squad of squid. Next best thing though.

      • 2017, Kristen Joy Wilks, Athens Ambuscade, Pelican Ventures Book Group (?ISBN)

        I pulled in as deep a breath as my gag allowed and began relaxing my body. I used a little trick I'd learned in college. I imagined that a friendly squad of squid were massaging every muscle on the bottoms of my feet; the tension began to drain.

2. (slang) One's friend group, taken collectively; one's peeps.

Derived terms

• firing squad
• flying squad
• God squad

Related terms

• squadron

Translations

See also

• Appendix:English collective nouns

Verb

squad (third-person singular simple present squads, present participle squadding, simple past and past participle squadded)

1. (intransitive) To act as part of, or on behalf of, a squad.

   We squad on the fifth of the month.

Etymology 2

Uncertain. Compare squick (“disgust”), squalid (“dirty”) with similar initial sounds.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?skwæd/

Noun

squad

1. (Britain, dialect) Sloppy mud. [from the mid-17th c.]
   • 1875 March 13, Leicester Chronicle, quoted in the EDD:

     The lass ran all among the muck and squad.

   • 1895, Alfred Tennyson, The Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson: Poet-laureate, page 791:

     An' she did n't not solidly mean I wur / gawin' that waäy to the bad,

     Fur the gell was as howry a trollope as / iver traäpes'd i' the squad.

Further reading

• Robert Eden George Cole, A Glossary of Words Used in South-west Lincolnshire (1886), page 140

Anagrams

• quads

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /es?kwad/, [es?kwað?]

Noun

squad m (plural squads or squad)

1. squad