different between enlist vs bluejacket

English

Etymology

en- +? list

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?l?st/
• Rhymes: -?st

Verb

enlist (third-person singular simple present enlists, present participle enlisting, simple past and past participle enlisted)

1. (transitive) To enter on a list; to enroll; to register.
2. (intransitive) To join a cause or organization, especially military service.

3. (transitive) To recruit the aid or membership of others.

4. (transitive) To secure; to obtain.

Synonyms

• (enter on a list): enscroll; see also Thesaurus:enlist

Translations

Noun

enlist (plural enlists)

1. One who is enlisted, usually in a military service.
   • 2006, USA International Business Publications, Taiwan National Security And Defense Law And Regulations Handbook

     […] 19.17% are enlisted officers (including cadets and midshipmen with BA degrees and associate degrees, officers Designated Military Occupational Specialty, the enlists converting into conscripts], officers from ROTCs) ; 0.31% are conscripted […]

Anagrams

• ELINTs, SILENT, Teslin, inlets, leints, listen, silent, tinsel

English

Etymology

blue +? jacket

Noun

bluejacket (plural bluejackets)

1. (nautical) A seaman of a British warship
   • 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 13, [1]

     It never entered his mind that here was a matter which from its extreme questionableness, it was his duty as a loyal blue-jacket to report in the proper quarter.

   • 1928, Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography, Chapter 4,^[2]

     ‘ […] I’m not sure’, she continued, ‘that I won’t throw myself overboard, for the mere pleasure of being rescued by a blue-jacket […] ’

   • 1942, Emily Carr, The Book of Small, “Regatta,”^[3]

     The Navy and the Indian tribes up and down the Coast took part in the races, the Navy rowing their heavy ship's boats round from Esquimalt Harbour, manned by blue-jackets, while smart little pinnaces “pip-pipped” along commanded by young midshipmen.

2. (nautical) An enlisted man in the US Navy.
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   • 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things

     He told me that Buster took her face 'bout right off. Said there's guts and hair everyplace. There's a platoon or so of Payton's bluejackets up there on the View now.

Synonyms

• sailor