Sergeant vs. Corporal
Sergeantnoun
UK army rank with NATO code OR-6, senior to corporal and junior to warrant officer ranks.
Sergeantnoun
The highest rank of noncommissioned officer in some non-naval military forces and police.
Sergeantnoun
A lawyer of the highest rank, equivalent to the doctor of civil law.
Sergeantnoun
A title sometimes given to the servants of the sovereign.
Sergeantnoun
A fish, the cobia.
Sergeantnoun
Formerly, in England, an officer nearly answering to the more modern bailiff of the hundred; also, an officer whose duty was to attend on the king, and on the lord high steward in court, to arrest traitors and other offenders. He is now called sergeant-at-arms, and two of these officers, by allowance of the sovereign, attend on the houses of Parliament (one for each house) to execute their commands, and another attends the Court Chancery.
Sergeantnoun
In a company, battery, or troop, a noncommissioned officer next in rank above a corporal, whose duty is to instruct recruits in discipline, to form the ranks, etc.
Sergeantnoun
A lawyer of the highest rank, answering to the doctor of the civil law; - called also serjeant at law.
Sergeantnoun
A title sometimes given to the servants of the sovereign; as, sergeant surgeon, that is, a servant, or attendant, surgeon.
Sergeantnoun
The cobia.
Sergeantnoun
any of several noncommissioned officer ranks in the army or air force or marines ranking above a corporal
Sergeantnoun
a lawman with the rank of sergeant
Sergeantnoun
an English barrister of the highest rank
Sergeantnoun
a rank of non-commissioned officer in the army or air force, above corporal and below staff sergeant.
Sergeantnoun
a police officer ranking below an inspector.
Sergeantnoun
a police officer ranking below a lieutenant.
Sergeant
Sergeant ( SARJ-ənt; abbreviated to Sgt. and capitalized when used as a named person's title) is a rank in many uniformed organizations, principally military and policing forces.
Corporaladjective
(archaic) Having a physical, tangible body; material, corporeal.
Corporaladjective
Of or pertaining to the body, especially the human body; bodily.
Corporaladjective
(zoology) Pertaining to the body (the thorax and abdomen), as distinguished from the head, limbs and wings, etc.
Corporalnoun
(military) A non-commissioned officer army rank with NATO code OR-4. The rank below a sergeant but above a lance corporal and private.
Corporalnoun
A non-commissioned officer rank in the police force, below a sergeant but above a private or patrolman.
Corporalnoun
A worker in charge of the wagonway, reporting to the deputy.
Corporalnoun
(ecclesiastical) The white linen cloth on which the elements of the Eucharist are placed; a communion cloth.
Corporalnoun
A noncommissioned officer, next below a sergeant. In the United States army he is the lowest noncommissioned officer in a company of infantry. He places and relieves sentinels.
Corporalnoun
A fine linen cloth, on which the sacred elements are consecrated in the eucharist, or with which they are covered; a communion cloth.
Corporaladjective
Belonging or relating to the body; bodily.
Corporaladjective
Having a body or substance; not spiritual; material. In this sense now usually written corporeal.
Corporalnoun
a noncommissioned officer in the army or airforce or marines
Corporaladjective
affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit;
Corporaladjective
possessing or existing in bodily form;
Corporalnoun
a rank of non-commissioned officer in the army, above lance corporal or private first class and below sergeant.
Corporalnoun
a petty officer who attended solely to police matters, under the master-at-arms.
Corporalnoun
another term for fallfish
Corporalnoun
a cloth on which the chalice and paten are placed during the celebration of the Eucharist.
Corporaladjective
relating to the human body.
Corporal
Corporal is a military rank in use in some form by many militaries and by some police forces or other uniformed organizations. Within NATO, each member nation's corresponding military rank of corporal is combined under the NATO-standard rank scale code OR-3 or OR-4.
