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regiment
English
Etymology
From Middle French regement, régiment, and its source, Late Latin regimentum (“direction for government; course of medical treatment”), from Latin reg? (“rule”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /???d??m?nt/
Noun
regiment (plural regiments)
- (military) A unit of armed troops under the command of an officer, and consisting of several smaller units; now specifically, usually composed of two or more battalions. [from 16th c.]
- 1901, Rudyard Kipling, Kim, III:
- It was an old, withered man, who had served the Government in the days of the Mutiny as a native officer in a newly raised cavalry regiment.
- 2005, Nicholas Watt & Michael White, The Guardian, 28 April 2005:
- As the prime minister insisted that he had "never told a lie" in his life, the Tory leader attacked him for ordering Scottish troops into battle with no warning that their regiments would be disbanded.
- 1901, Rudyard Kipling, Kim, III:
- (now rare, archaic) Rule or governance over a person, place etc.; government, authority. [from 14th c.]
- 1576, Abraham Fleming, translating Cicero, A Panoplie of Epistles, XXXIII:
- What place is there in all the world, not subiect to the regiment and power of this citie?
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.8:
- Then loyall love had royall regiment, / And each unto his lust did make a lawe, / From all forbidden things his liking to withdraw.
- 1832, John Austin, The Province of Jurisprudence Determined, VI:
- And how is it possible to distinguish precisely […] the powers of ecclesiastical regiment which none but the church should wield from the powers of ecclesiastical regiment (on the jus circa sacra) which secular and profane governments may handle without sin?
- 1576, Abraham Fleming, translating Cicero, A Panoplie of Epistles, XXXIII:
- (obsolete) The state or office of a ruler; rulership. [14th-17th c.]
- (obsolete) Influence or control exercised by someone or something (especially a planet). [14th-17th c.]
- (obsolete) A place under a particular rule; a kingdom or domain. [14th-17th c.]
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)
- (obsolete, medicine) A regimen. [15th-19th c.]
Translations
Verb
regiment (third-person singular simple present regiments, present participle regimenting, simple past and past participle regimented)
- (transitive) To form soldiers into a regiment.
- J. W. Powell
- The people are organized or regimented into bodies, and special functions are relegated to the several units.
- J. W. Powell
- (transitive) To systematize, or put in rigid order.
Anagrams
- metering
Catalan
Etymology
From Late Latin regimentum.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /r?.?i?ment/
- (Central) IPA(key): /r?.?i?men/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /re.d??i?ment/
- Rhymes: -ent
Noun
regiment m (plural regiments)
- regiment
Derived terms
- regimental
- regimentar
Further reading
- “regiment” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “regiment” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “regiment” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “regiment” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch regiment. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?re?.?i?m?nt/
- Hyphenation: re?gi?ment
- Rhymes: -?nt
Noun
regiment n (plural regimenten, diminutive regimentje n)
- regiment (division of an army)
- regimen, regime (particular system of enforcing discipline)
- (obsolete) rulership, governance, rule
- 1628, Philips Marnix van Sint Aldegonde, "Wilhelmus van Nassouwe", (modern, redacted version), couplet 2.
- 1628, Philips Marnix van Sint Aldegonde, "Wilhelmus van Nassouwe", (modern, redacted version), couplet 2.
Descendants
- ? Indonesian: resimen (“division of an army”)
Hungarian
Etymology
From German Regiment (“regiment”), from Medieval Latin regimentum, from Latin regimen (“rule, direction”), from reg? (“I rule”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?r??im?nt]
- Hyphenation: re?gi?ment
- Rhymes: -?nt
Noun
regiment (plural regimentek)
- (archaic) regiment
- Synonym: ezred
Declension
Further reading
- regiment in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Late Latin regimentum
Noun
regiment n (definite singular regimentet, indefinite plural regiment or regimenter, definite plural regimenta or regimentene)
- (military) a regiment
References
- “regiment” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Late Latin regimentum
Noun
regiment n (definite singular regimentet, indefinite plural regiment, definite plural regimenta)
- (military) a regiment
References
- “regiment” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Romanian
Etymology
From French régiment.
Noun
regiment n (plural regimente)
- regiment
Declension
Vilamovian
Noun
regiment n
- (military) regiment
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body
English
Alternative forms
- bodie (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English bodi, bodi?, from Old English bodi?, bode? (“body, trunk, chest, torso, height, stature”), from Proto-West Germanic *bodag (“body, trunk”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ewd?- (“to be awake, observe”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?b?di/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?b?di/, [?b??i]
- Rhymes: -?di
- Hyphenation: bod?y
- Homophone: bawdy (in accents with the cot-caught merger)
Noun
body (countable and uncountable, plural bodies)
- Physical frame.
- The physical structure of a human or animal seen as one single organism. [from 9th c.]
- I saw them walking from a distance, their bodies strangely angular in the dawn light.
- The fleshly or corporeal nature of a human, as opposed to the spirit or soul. [from 13th c.]
- The body is driven by desires, but the soul is at peace.
- A corpse. [from 13th c.]
- Her body was found at four o'clock, just two hours after the murder.
- (archaic or informal except in compounds) A person. [from 13th c.]
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, page 463:
- Indeed, if it belonged to a poor body, it would be another thing; but so great a lady, to be sure, can never want it […]
- 1876, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Chapter 28:
- Sometime I've set right down and eat WITH him. But you needn't tell that. A body's got to do things when he's awful hungry he wouldn't want to do as a steady thing.
- What's a body gotta do to get a drink around here?
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, page 463:
- (sociology) A human being, regarded as marginalized or oppressed.
- 1999, Devon Carbado, Black Men on Race, Gender, and Sexuality: A Critical Reader (page 87)
- This, of course, was not about the State, but it was certainly an invasion: black bodies acting out in a public domain circumscribed by a racist culture. The Garvey movement presents an example of black bodies transgressing racialized spatial boundaries.
- 2012, Trystan T. Cotten, Transgender Migrations (page 3)
- In doing so, Haritaworn also rethinks the marginality of transgender bodies and practices in queer movements and spaces.
- 2016, Laura Harrison, Brown Bodies, White Babies (page 5)
- As the title suggests, this project is particularly interested in how race intersects with reproductive technologies—how brown bodies are deployed in the creation of white babies.
- 1999, Devon Carbado, Black Men on Race, Gender, and Sexuality: A Critical Reader (page 87)
- The physical structure of a human or animal seen as one single organism. [from 9th c.]
- Main section.
- The torso, the main structure of a human or animal frame excluding the extremities (limbs, head, tail). [from 9th c.]
- The boxer took a blow to the body.
- The largest or most important part of anything, as distinct from its appendages or accessories. [from 11th c.]
- The bumpers and front tyres were ruined, but the body of the car was in remarkable shape.
- (archaic) The section of a dress extending from the neck to the waist, excluding the arms. [from 16th c.]
- Penny was in the scullery, pressing the body of her new dress.
- The content of a letter, message, or other printed or electronic document, as distinct from signatures, salutations, headers, and so on. [from 17th c.]
- (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:) A bodysuit. [from 19th c.]
- (programming) The code of a subroutine, contrasted to its signature and parameters. [from 20th c.]
- In many programming languages, the method body is enclosed in braces.
- The torso, the main structure of a human or animal frame excluding the extremities (limbs, head, tail). [from 9th c.]
- Coherent group.
- A group of people having a common purpose or opinion; a mass. [from 16th c.]
- I was escorted from the building by a body of armed security guards.
- An organisation, company or other authoritative group. [from 17th c.]
- The local train operating company is the managing body for this section of track.
- A unified collection of details, knowledge or information. [from 17th c.]
- We have now amassed a body of evidence which points to one conclusion.
- A group of people having a common purpose or opinion; a mass. [from 16th c.]
- Material entity.
- Any physical object or material thing. [from 14th c.]
- All bodies are held together by internal forces.
- (uncountable) Substance; physical presence. [from 17th c.]
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 1
- The voice had an extraordinary sadness. Pure from all body, pure from all passion, going out into the world, solitary, unanswered, breaking against rocks—so it sounded.
- We have given body to what was just a vague idea.
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 1
- (uncountable) Comparative viscosity, solidity or substance (in wine, colours etc.). [from 17th c.]
- The red wine, sadly, lacked body.
- An agglomeration of some substance, especially one that would be otherwise uncountable.
- 1806 June 26, Thomas Paine, "The cause of Yellow Fever and the means of preventing it, in places not yet infected with it, addressed to the Board of Health in America", The political and miscellaneous works of Thomas Paine, page 179:
- In a gentle breeze, the whole body of air, as far as the breeze extends, moves at the rate of seven or eight miles an hour; in a high wind, at the rate of seventy, eighty, or an hundred miles an hour […]
- 2012 March 19, Helge Løseth, Nuno Rodrigues and Peter R. Cobbold, "World's largest extrusive body of sand?", Geology, volume 40, issue 5
- Using three-dimensional seismic and well data from the northern North Sea, we describe a large (10 km3) body of sand and interpret it as extrusive.
- 2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns
- The huge body of ice is in the southeastern edge of a Central Asian region called the Third Pole.
- The English Channel is a body of water lying between Great Britain and France.
- 1806 June 26, Thomas Paine, "The cause of Yellow Fever and the means of preventing it, in places not yet infected with it, addressed to the Board of Health in America", The political and miscellaneous works of Thomas Paine, page 179:
- Any physical object or material thing. [from 14th c.]
- (printing) The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated).
- a nonpareil face on an agate body
- 1992, Mary Kay Duggan, ?Italian Music Incunabula: Printers and Type (page 99)
- The stemless notes could have been cast on a body as short as 4 mm but were probably cast on bodies of the standard 14 mm size for ease of composition.
- (geometry) A three-dimensional object, such as a cube or cone.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:body
- See also Thesaurus:corpse
Derived terms
Pages starting with “body”.
Translations
See also
- corporal
- corporeal
Verb
body (third-person singular simple present bodies, present participle bodying, simple past and past participle bodied)
- To give body or shape to something.
- And as imagination bodies forth / The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen / Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing / A local habitation and a name. — Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream.
- To construct the bodywork of a car.
- (transitive) To embody.
- (transitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To murder someone.
- (transitive, slang, African-American Vernacular, by extension) To utterly defeat someone.
- (transitive, slang, video games) to hard counter a particular character build or play style. Frequently used in the passive voice form, get bodied by.
References
Anagrams
- BYOD, Boyd, Doby, do by
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bod?/
- Rhymes: -od?
- Hyphenation: bo?dy
Etymology 1
From English body, bodysuit.
Noun
body n (indeclinable)
- bodysuit, leotard
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Noun
body
- nominative/accusative/vocative/instrumental plural of bod
Anagrams
- doby
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English body.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b?.di/
- Hyphenation: bo?dy
Noun
body m (plural body's, diminutive body'tje n)
- A leotard.
- Body, substance.
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?body/, [?bo?dy]
- IPA(key): /?bodi/, [?bo?di]
- Rhymes: -ody
- Homophone: bodi
- Syllabification: bo?dy
Noun
body
- snapsuit, diaper shirt, onesies (infant bodysuit)
Declension
Pronunciation ?body:
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b?.di/
Noun
body m (invariable)
- leotard
- Synonym: calzamaglia
Further reading
- body in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Scots
Alternative forms
- bodie
Etymology
From Middle English body, bodi?, from Old English bodi?, bode? (“body, trunk, chest, torso, height, stature”).
Noun
body (plural bodies)
- body
- person, human being
Spanish
Noun
body m (plural bodys or bodies)
- bodysuit
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