different between personnel vs quartering

English

Etymology

From French personnel.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /p?.s??n?l/, /p?s?n?l/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /p??.s??n?l/, /p??s?n?l/
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /p??.s??n?l/, /p??s?n?l/, /-el/
• Rhymes: -?l

Noun

personnel (countable and uncountable, plural personnels)

1. Employees; office staff.
   • 1924, U.S. Army Recruiting News (page 10)

     People like to see such friendly relationship existing between the respective personnels of their Army, Navy and Marine Corps.
2. (uncountable) A human resources department.

   I've just had a letter from personnel.

Usage notes

• Not to be confused with personal.

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin personalis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??.s?.n?l/

Adjective

personnel (feminine singular personnelle, masculine plural personnels, feminine plural personnelles)

1. personal

Synonyms

• (informal) perso

Derived terms

Related terms

• impersonnel

Noun

personnel m (plural personnels)

1. staff, members of staff, personnel

Related terms

• personnaliser
• personne
• personnellement

Further reading

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

English

Verb

quartering

1. present participle of quarter

Noun

quartering (plural quarterings)

1. A division into four parts.
   • 1994, David C. Schneider, Quantitative Ecology: Spatial and Temporal Scaling (page 36)

     Similitude applies to proportional changes, such as doublings, halvings, or quarterings; it does not apply to additive changes.

2. The act of providing housing for military personnel, especially when imposed upon the home of a private citizen.
3. The method of capital punishment where a criminal is cut into four pieces.
4. (heraldry) The division of a shield containing different coats of arms into four or more compartments.
5. (heraldry) One of the different coats of arms arranged upon an escutcheon, denoting the descent of the bearer.
6. (architecture) A series of quarters, or small upright posts.
7. (historical) The practice of docking 15 minutes' pay from a worker who arrived late (even by less than 15 minutes).
8. (hunting) Searching for prey by traversing a space. From hunting for game, where dogs will run parallel to the wind in search of a scent, thereby 'quatering' the field.

Translations

Adjective

quartering (not comparable)

1. (nautical) Coming from a point well abaft the beam, but not directly astern; said of waves or any moving object.
2. (by extension, aviation, of wind) Coming from aft and to one side; having both a crosswind and tailwind component.
3. (engineering) At right angles, as the cranks of a locomotive, which are in planes forming a right angle with each other.