different between guard vs patrol

English

Alternative forms

• gard, garde, guarde (obsolete)

Etymology

For verb: From early Middle French or late Old French (circa 14th cent) guarder (“to keep, ward, guard, save, preserve, etc.”), from Frankish *ward?n, from Proto-Germanic *ward?n? (“to guard, protect”). Cognate with Old English weardian (whence English to ward). Compare French garder. See also English regard.

For noun: From Middle English garde, from early Middle French or late Old French guarde (“a guardian, warden, keeper”) (whence modern French garde), from the verb guarder. Doublet of garda, which is from Irish.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

guard (plural guards)

1. A person who, or thing that, protects or watches over something.

2. (Ireland) A garda; a police officer.
   • 2016, Anastasia Dukova, A History of the Dublin Metropolitan Police and its Colonial Legacy, Springer (?ISBN), page 139

     The Garda Regulations 1924 required a candidate for appointment as a guard to be able to produce satisfactory references as to his character

3. (military) A squad responsible for protecting something.

4. The part of a sword that protects the wielder's hand.
5. A part of a machine which blocks access to dangerous parts.

6. A watchchain.
7. (Australia) A panel of a car that encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.
8. (uncountable) A state of caution; posture of defence.
9. Something worn to protect part of the body, e.g. the shins in cricket.
10. (basketball) A relatively short player, playing farther from the basket than a forward or center.
11. (cricket) The position on the popping crease where a batsman makes a mark to align himself with the wicket; see take guard.
12. (American football) Either of two offensive positions between the center and each of the offensive tackles, whose main responsibilities are to protect the quarterback, and open up "holes" through which offensive players can run.
13. (sports) A player playing a position named guard.
14. (rail transport) An employee, normally travelling in the last vehicle of a train, responsible for the safety of the train.
    • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1943, Chapter IX, p. 141, [4]

      When an engineer wished to stop a swiftly moving train he had first to whistle to the guard requesting him to apply the hand-brake of the van, and then apply the hand-brake of the engine. Guards did not always hear.

15. (computing, programming) A Boolean expression that must evaluate to true for a branch of program execution to continue.

Synonyms

• (the part of a sword that protects the wielder's hand): quillon
• (part of machine blocking dangerous parts): protection
• (panel of a car enclosing a wheel): fender

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

guard (third-person singular simple present guards, present participle guarding, simple past and past participle guarded)

1. To protect from danger; to secure against surprise, attack, or injury; to keep in safety; to defend.
2. To keep watch over, in order to prevent escape or restrain from acts of violence, or the like.

   Guard the prisoner.

3. To watch by way of caution or defense; to be caution; to be in a state or position of defense or safety.

   Careful people guard against mistakes.

4. To protect the edge of, especially with an ornamental border; hence, to face or ornament with lists, laces, etc.
5. To fasten by binding; to gird.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Ben Jonson to this entry?)

Derived terms

• guard one's tongue

Translations

Further reading

• guard in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• guard in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• guard at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Dagur, Darug, Dugar, Durga, draug, durag

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)

1. (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.
2. (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.
3. (military) The guards who go the rounds for observation; a detachment whose duty it is to patrol.
4. (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.
5. 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.
6. (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)

1. (intransitive) To go the rounds along a chain of sentinels; to traverse a police district or beat.
2. (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

1. (military) patrol (going of the rounds)
2. (military) patrol (movement by a small body of troops beyond the line of outposts)
3. (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