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picket
English
Etymology
From French piquet, from piquer (“to pierce”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /?p?k?t/
- Rhymes: -?k?t
- Hyphenation: pick?et
Noun
picket (countable and uncountable, plural pickets)
- A stake driven into the ground.
- (historical) A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.
- A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.
- (military) One of the soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance; or any unit (for example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function.
- 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society 2010, p. 59:
- So confident was he that he ignored the warning of his two British advisers to post pickets to watch the river, and even withdrew those they had placed there.
- 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society 2010, p. 59:
- (sometimes figuratively) A sentry.
- A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.
- (card games, uncountable) The card game piquet.
Derived terms
- picket line
- picket pin
- picket rope
Translations
Verb
picket (third-person singular simple present pickets, present participle picketing, simple past and past participle picketed)
- (intransitive) To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.
- (transitive) To enclose or fortify with pickets or pointed stakes.
- (transitive) To tether to, or as if to, a picket.
- to picket a horse
- (transitive) To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.
- (obsolete, transitive) To torture by forcing to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.
Derived terms
- picketing (noun)
- unpicketed
German
Pronunciation
Verb
picket
- second-person plural subjunctive I of picken
picket From the web:
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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