English words for 'Alternative form of Life Guardsman.'
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noun
- A lifebuoy; a life preserver.
- (linguistics, sign language) A sign where the non-dominant hand is held in a stationary configuration as a landmark for meaning associations with the dominant hand.
- (nautical) A float moored in water to mark a location, warn of danger, indicate a navigational channel or for other purposes
- a float attached by rope to the seabed to mark channels in a harbor or underwater hazards; typically brightly-coloured
verb
noun
- A life preserver.
- A person who prepares preserves of fruit or preserved meats.
- One who preserves.
- A person who refinishes furniture.
- a skilled worker who is employed to restore or refinish buildings or antique furniture
- someone who keeps safe from harm or danger
- rescue equipment consisting of a buoyant belt or jacket to keep a person from drowning
- a cook who preserves fruits or meat
adj
- (especially heraldry) Having a guard, e.g. a crossguard (on a sword), a faceguard (on a helmet), or a hatguard (on a chapeau).
- Watched over; supervised.
- Cautious; restrained.
- (medicine, of prognosis) A good outcome has fair odds of happening but close monitoring is important because odds of deterioration are not low.
- prudent
verb
adj
noun
noun
- a soldier who is a member of a unit called ‘the guard’ or ‘guards’
- a military unit serving to protect some place or person
- (military) A squad responsible for protecting something.
- a precautionary measure warding off impending danger or damage or injury etc.
- the person who lines up between the center and the tackles on the offensive line of a football team on the line of scrimmage
- the duty of serving as a sentry
- the person who plays the position of guard on a basketball team
- (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage between the center and the tackles
- a posture of defence in boxing or fencing
- a person who keeps watch over something or someone
- a device designed to prevent injury or accidents
- a position on a basketball team
- (sports) A player playing a position named guard.
- A person who, or thing that, protects or watches over something.
- (military, often in the plural) An elite military unit in Russia, the former Soviet Union and several post-Soviet countries.
- (rail transport) An employee, normally travelling in the last vehicle of a train, responsible for the safety of the train.
- (Ireland) A garda; a police officer.
- The part of a sword that protects the wielder's hand.
- (Australia) A panel of a car that encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.
- (basketball) A relatively short player, playing farther from the basket than a forward or centre.
- Something worn to protect part of the body, e.g. the shins in cricket.
- (programming) A Boolean expression that must evaluate to true for a branch of program execution to continue.
- A watchchain.
- (American football) Either of two offensive positions between the centre and each of the offensive tackles, whose main responsibilities are to protect the quarterback, and open up "holes" through which offensive players can run.
- (martial arts) A ground grappling position in which one combatant has their back to the ground while attempting to control the other combatant using their legs.
- (aviation) The aircraft emergency frequency, a radio frequency reserved for emergency communications, typically 121.5MHz for civilian use.
- (cricket) The position on the popping crease where a batsman makes a mark to align himself with the wicket; see take guard.
- (uncountable) A state of caution; posture of defence.
- A part of a machine which blocks access to dangerous parts.
verb
- take precautions in order to avoid some unwanted consequence
- to keep watch over
- protect against a challenge or attack
- watch over or shield from danger or harm; protect
- (transitive) To protect the edge of, especially with an ornamental border; hence, to face or ornament with lists, laces, etc.
- (transitive) To fasten by binding; to gird.
- (transitive) To protect from danger; to secure against surprise, attack, or injury; to keep in safety; to defend.
- (transitive) To keep watch over, in order to prevent escape or restrain from acts of violence, or the like.
- (ambitransitive) To watch by way of caution or defense; to be cautious; to be in a state or position of defense or safety.
noun
- (military) A special forces operative; a commando.
- (business) A person who takes or attempts to take control of a firm against the will of current management by purchasing a controlling interest of stock and acquiring proxies.
- One who engages in a raid; a plunderer.
- (military, naval) A warship which is light, maneuverable, and fast-moving.
- (informal) A person who uncovers evidence of improper behavior within governmental or private organizations.
- A law enforcement official who conducts a raid on a building in search for illicit goods.
- A warplane on an air raid.
- a corporate investor who intends to take over a company by buying a controlling interest in its stock and installing new management
- someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war)
noun
- A guard who travels with a dangerous person, such as a criminal, for the protection of others.
- A group of people attending as a mark of respect or honor.
- An accompanying person in such a group.
- A group of people or vehicles, generally armed, who go with a person or people of importance to safeguard them on a journey or mission.
- Protection, care, or safeguard on a journey or excursion.
- An accompanying person in a social gathering, etc.
- (originally euphemistic) A sex worker who does not operate in a brothel, but with whom clients make appointments; a call girl or male equivalent; a pimp.
- a participant in a date
- the act of accompanying someone or something in order to protect them
- someone who escorts and protects a prominent person
- an attendant who is employed to accompany someone
verb
- To attend to in order to guard and protect; to accompany as a safeguard (for the person escorted or for others); to give honorable or ceremonious attendance to.
- To go with someone as a partner, for example on a formal date.
- To accompany (a person) in order to compel them to go somewhere (e.g. to leave a building).
- (intransitive) To work as an escort (sex worker).
- conduct someone someplace
- accompany as an escort
noun
- Something that serves as a guard or protection; a defense.
- One who, or that which, defends or protects; defence; protection.
- A safe-conduct or passport, especially in time of war.
- a precautionary measure warding off impending danger or damage or injury etc.
- a document or escort providing safe passage through a region especially in time of war
verb
noun
- Someone who protects or guards, by assignment or on their own initiative.
- (multiplicity slang) A headmate who primarily fronts, or otherwise protects the system, in situations where the system is at risk of psychological harm.
- A state or other subject under international law, exercising a protectorate over another subject in international law.
- (UK, historical) One having the care of the kingdom during the king's minority; a regent.
- One who prevents interference.
- A device or mechanism which is designed to protect.
- (Roman Catholicism) A cardinal, from one of the more considerable Roman Catholic nations, who looks after the interests of his people at Rome; also, a cardinal who has the same relation to a college, religious order, etc.
- a person who cares for persons or property
noun
- (Australia) A participant in a cadetship.
- (New Zealand, historical) A young gentleman learning sheep farming at a station; also, any young man attached to a sheep station.
- A student at a military school who is training to be an officer.
- (in compounds, chiefly in genealogy) Junior. (See also the heraldic term cadency.)
- (chiefly history) A younger or youngest son, who would not inherit as a firstborn son would.
- a military trainee (as at a military academy)
noun
- Someone who guards, watches over, or protects.
- (US military) A servicemember of the United States Space Force.
- (video games) A major or final enemy; boss.
- (law) A person legally responsible for an incompetent person.
- A superior in a Franciscan monastery.
- (law) A person legally responsible for a minor (in loco parentis).
- a person who cares for persons or property
noun
noun
- A member of the armed forces or police force.
- (Singapore) Synonym of regular serviceman; a member of the Singapore Armed Forces, Police Force or Civil Defence Force who has signed on, i.e., chosen to work full-time beyond their required length of national service.
- Anything that is normal or standard.
- A frequent customer, client or business partner.
- (Canada) A coffee with one cream and one sugar.
- A fixed number for each month serving to ascertain the day of the week, or the age of the moon, on the first day of any month.
- A member of the British Army (as opposed to a member of the Territorial Army or Reserve).
- A frequent, routine visitor to an establishment.
- A member of a religious order who has taken the three ordinary vows.
- A number for each year, giving, added to the concurrents, the number of the day of the week on which the Paschal full moon falls.
- (television) A character who appears in every episode of a TV series; a member of the regular cast.
- a soldier in the regular army
- a dependable follower (especially in party politics)
- a regular patron
- a garment size for persons of average height and weight
adj
- Demonstrating a consistent set of rules; showing order, evenness of operation or occurrence.
- (botany, zoology) Having all the parts of the same kind alike in size and shape.
- (chiefly US) Having the expected characteristics or appearances; normal, ordinary, standard.
- (geometry, of a polygon) Both equilateral and equiangular; having all sides of the same length, and all (corresponding) angles of the same size
- (astronomy) Of a moon or other satellite: following a relatively close and prograde orbit with little inclination or eccentricity.
- (Christianity) Bound by religious rule; belonging to a monastic or religious order (often as opposed to secular).
- (mathematical analysis, not comparable, of a Borel measure) Such that every set in its domain is both outer regular and inner regular.
- (colloquial) Exemplary; excellent example of; utter, downright.
- Happening at constant (especially short) intervals.
- (chiefly military) Permanently organised; being part of a set professional body of troops.
- Having bowel movements or menstrual periods at constant intervals in the expected way.
- (snowboarding) Riding with the left foot forward.
- (geometry, of a polyhedron) Whose faces are all congruent regular polygons, equally inclined to each other.
- (crystallography) Isometric.
- (algebraic geometry, not comparable, of a scheme) Such that the local ring at every point is regular.
- (grammar, of a verb, plural, etc) Following a set or common pattern; according to the general rules of a given language.
- Having a constant pattern; showing evenness of form or appearance.
- (commutative algebra, not comparable, of a local ring) Noetherian and such that the minimal number of generators of the maximal ideal is equal to the Krull dimension of the ring.
- officially full-time
- in accordance with fixed order or procedure or principle
- regularly scheduled for fixed times
- symmetrically arranged
- conforming to a standard or pattern
- (used of the military) belonging to or engaged in by legitimate army forces
- not constipated
- in accord with regular practice or procedure
- relating to a person who does something regularly
- not deviating from what is normal
- often used as intensifiers
- occurring at fixed intervals
- (of solids) having clear dimensions that can be measured; volume can be determined with a suitable geometric formula
noun
- A guardsman.
- (countable, formal, military) An enlisted member of a military service, as distinguished from a commissioned officer.
- A term of approbation for a young boy.
- (xiangqi) A xiangqi piece that moves and captures by advancing one point. Once it has crossed the river, it may also move and capture one point horizontally.
- (by extension, nonstandard, countable, military) Any member of a military, regardless of specialty.
- (countable, military) A member of a ground-based army, of any rank, but especially an enlisted member.
- One of the asexual polymorphic forms of termites, in which the head and jaws are very large and strong. The soldiers serve to defend the nest.
- A brick, for example in a course of brickwork, that is laid vertically on its shortest end (smallest face), so that its tallest and slimmest face faces the outside of the wall.
- A low-ranking gangster or member of a gang, especially the mafia, who engages in physical conflict.
- (countable, figurative) Someone who fights or toils well.
- (British, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand) A piece of buttered bread (or toast), cut into a long thin strip for dipping into a soft-boiled egg.
- A member of the Salvation Army.
- A red or cuckoo gurnard (Chelidonichthys cuculus).
- a wingless sterile ant or termite having a large head and powerful jaws adapted for defending the colony
- an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army
verb
- (intransitive) To intentionally restrict labor productivity; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished.
- (transitive, slang) To take a ride on (another person's horse) without permission.
- (intransitive) To serve as a soldier.
- (intransitive) To continue steadfast; to keep striving.
- serve as a soldier in the military
noun
- (military) A sentry etc. manning an observation post.
- (motor racing) Synonym of spotter.
- A person sent as a representative, to a meeting or other function to monitor but not to participate.
- One who makes observations, monitors or takes notice.
- One who adheres or follows laws, guidelines, etc.
- A country or other entity which has limited participation rights within an organization.
- (military) A crew member on an aircraft who makes observations of enemy positions or aircraft.
- an expert who observes and comments on something
- a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses
noun
adj
noun
- A commando trooper.
- (historical) An organized force of Boer troops in South Africa; a raid by such troops.
- A small fighting force specially trained for making quick destructive raids against enemy-held areas.
- an amphibious military unit trained for raids into enemy territory
- a member of a military unit trained as shock troops for hit-and-run raids
noun
- A person who guards military prisoners on fatigue duty; a prison guard.
- (slang) A person who seeks partners with HIV in order to become infected.
- (slang) A drink consumed after another of a different kind.
- One of a series of adjacent light bulbs that cycle on and off to give the illusion of movement.
- (equestrianism) A horse trained for steeplechasing; a steeplechaser.
- (slang) A chaser for overweight or obese people; a chubby chaser.
- Something or someone who chases.
- (timber industry) One who unhooks chokers from the logs at the landing.
- (taxonomy) Any dragonfly of family Libellulidae.
- (LGBTQ slang) A chaser for transgender people; a tranny chaser.
- Someone who chases (decorates) metal; a person who decorates metal by engraving or embossing.
- (nautical) A chase gun.
- A tool used for cleaning out screw threads, either as an integral part of a tap or die to remove waste material produced by the cutting tool, or as a separate tool to repair damaged threads.
- A long piece of flexible wire used to draw an electrical cable through a wall cavity.
- (fiction, Harry Potter) In the sport of Quidditch or Muggle quidditch, a player responsible for passing the quaffle and scoring goals with it.
- a person who is pursuing and trying to overtake or capture
- a drink to follow immediately after another drink
noun
- A sentry, watch, or guard.
- (computer science) A unique value recognised by a computer program for processing in a special way, or marking the end of a set of data.
- (attributive, medicine, epidemiology) A sign of a health risk (e.g. a disease, an adverse effect).
- A sentinel crab.
- a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
verb
noun
adj
noun
- A paramedic, someone with special training in first aid, especially in the military.
- A physician.
- A medical student.
- Alternative spelling of medick (“herb of the genus Medicago”).
- a medical practitioner in the armed forces
- any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves
adj
noun
- (military) A private in the line.
- (soccer) An assistant referee.
- A person employed to work on electrical lines; a lineman.
- (American football) An official whose primary task is to determine whether there has been a line of scrimmage violation.
- (ice hockey) An official whose primary task is to watch the blue line and determine when there has been an offside.
- male official (in tennis, soccer, football, etc.) who assists the referee in some way (especially by watching for out of bounds or offside)
- a male person who installs or repairs electrical or telephone lines
noun
- (military) The guards who go the rounds for observation; a detachment whose duty it is to patrol.
- (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) 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.
- (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.
- (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.
- a group that goes through a region at regular intervals for the purpose of security
- the activity of going around or through an area at regular intervals for security purposes
- a detachment used for security or reconnaissance
verb
noun
- A lifebuoy; a life preserver.
- (linguistics, sign language) A sign where the non-dominant hand is held in a stationary configuration as a landmark for meaning associations with the dominant hand.
- (nautical) A float moored in water to mark a location, warn of danger, indicate a navigational channel or for other purposes
- a float attached by rope to the seabed to mark channels in a harbor or underwater hazards; typically brightly-coloured
verb
noun
- A life preserver.
- A person who prepares preserves of fruit or preserved meats.
- One who preserves.
- A person who refinishes furniture.
- a skilled worker who is employed to restore or refinish buildings or antique furniture
- someone who keeps safe from harm or danger
- rescue equipment consisting of a buoyant belt or jacket to keep a person from drowning
- a cook who preserves fruits or meat
noun
- a soldier who is a member of a unit called ‘the guard’ or ‘guards’
- a military unit serving to protect some place or person
- (military) A squad responsible for protecting something.
- a precautionary measure warding off impending danger or damage or injury etc.
- the person who lines up between the center and the tackles on the offensive line of a football team on the line of scrimmage
- the duty of serving as a sentry
- the person who plays the position of guard on a basketball team
- (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage between the center and the tackles
- a posture of defence in boxing or fencing
- a person who keeps watch over something or someone
- a device designed to prevent injury or accidents
- a position on a basketball team
- (sports) A player playing a position named guard.
- A person who, or thing that, protects or watches over something.
- (military, often in the plural) An elite military unit in Russia, the former Soviet Union and several post-Soviet countries.
- (rail transport) An employee, normally travelling in the last vehicle of a train, responsible for the safety of the train.
- (Ireland) A garda; a police officer.
- The part of a sword that protects the wielder's hand.
- (Australia) A panel of a car that encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.
- (basketball) A relatively short player, playing farther from the basket than a forward or centre.
- Something worn to protect part of the body, e.g. the shins in cricket.
- (programming) A Boolean expression that must evaluate to true for a branch of program execution to continue.
- A watchchain.
- (American football) Either of two offensive positions between the centre and each of the offensive tackles, whose main responsibilities are to protect the quarterback, and open up "holes" through which offensive players can run.
- (martial arts) A ground grappling position in which one combatant has their back to the ground while attempting to control the other combatant using their legs.
- (aviation) The aircraft emergency frequency, a radio frequency reserved for emergency communications, typically 121.5MHz for civilian use.
- (cricket) The position on the popping crease where a batsman makes a mark to align himself with the wicket; see take guard.
- (uncountable) A state of caution; posture of defence.
- A part of a machine which blocks access to dangerous parts.
verb
- take precautions in order to avoid some unwanted consequence
- to keep watch over
- protect against a challenge or attack
- watch over or shield from danger or harm; protect
- (transitive) To protect the edge of, especially with an ornamental border; hence, to face or ornament with lists, laces, etc.
- (transitive) To fasten by binding; to gird.
- (transitive) To protect from danger; to secure against surprise, attack, or injury; to keep in safety; to defend.
- (transitive) To keep watch over, in order to prevent escape or restrain from acts of violence, or the like.
- (ambitransitive) To watch by way of caution or defense; to be cautious; to be in a state or position of defense or safety.
noun
- (military) A special forces operative; a commando.
- (business) A person who takes or attempts to take control of a firm against the will of current management by purchasing a controlling interest of stock and acquiring proxies.
- One who engages in a raid; a plunderer.
- (military, naval) A warship which is light, maneuverable, and fast-moving.
- (informal) A person who uncovers evidence of improper behavior within governmental or private organizations.
- A law enforcement official who conducts a raid on a building in search for illicit goods.
- A warplane on an air raid.
- a corporate investor who intends to take over a company by buying a controlling interest in its stock and installing new management
- someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war)
noun
- A guard who travels with a dangerous person, such as a criminal, for the protection of others.
- A group of people attending as a mark of respect or honor.
- An accompanying person in such a group.
- A group of people or vehicles, generally armed, who go with a person or people of importance to safeguard them on a journey or mission.
- Protection, care, or safeguard on a journey or excursion.
- An accompanying person in a social gathering, etc.
- (originally euphemistic) A sex worker who does not operate in a brothel, but with whom clients make appointments; a call girl or male equivalent; a pimp.
- a participant in a date
- the act of accompanying someone or something in order to protect them
- someone who escorts and protects a prominent person
- an attendant who is employed to accompany someone
verb
- To attend to in order to guard and protect; to accompany as a safeguard (for the person escorted or for others); to give honorable or ceremonious attendance to.
- To go with someone as a partner, for example on a formal date.
- To accompany (a person) in order to compel them to go somewhere (e.g. to leave a building).
- (intransitive) To work as an escort (sex worker).
- conduct someone someplace
- accompany as an escort
noun
- Something that serves as a guard or protection; a defense.
- One who, or that which, defends or protects; defence; protection.
- A safe-conduct or passport, especially in time of war.
- a precautionary measure warding off impending danger or damage or injury etc.
- a document or escort providing safe passage through a region especially in time of war
verb
noun
- Someone who protects or guards, by assignment or on their own initiative.
- (multiplicity slang) A headmate who primarily fronts, or otherwise protects the system, in situations where the system is at risk of psychological harm.
- A state or other subject under international law, exercising a protectorate over another subject in international law.
- (UK, historical) One having the care of the kingdom during the king's minority; a regent.
- One who prevents interference.
- A device or mechanism which is designed to protect.
- (Roman Catholicism) A cardinal, from one of the more considerable Roman Catholic nations, who looks after the interests of his people at Rome; also, a cardinal who has the same relation to a college, religious order, etc.
- a person who cares for persons or property
noun
- (Australia) A participant in a cadetship.
- (New Zealand, historical) A young gentleman learning sheep farming at a station; also, any young man attached to a sheep station.
- A student at a military school who is training to be an officer.
- (in compounds, chiefly in genealogy) Junior. (See also the heraldic term cadency.)
- (chiefly history) A younger or youngest son, who would not inherit as a firstborn son would.
- a military trainee (as at a military academy)
noun
- Someone who guards, watches over, or protects.
- (US military) A servicemember of the United States Space Force.
- (video games) A major or final enemy; boss.
- (law) A person legally responsible for an incompetent person.
- A superior in a Franciscan monastery.
- (law) A person legally responsible for a minor (in loco parentis).
- a person who cares for persons or property
noun
noun
- A member of the armed forces or police force.
- (Singapore) Synonym of regular serviceman; a member of the Singapore Armed Forces, Police Force or Civil Defence Force who has signed on, i.e., chosen to work full-time beyond their required length of national service.
- Anything that is normal or standard.
- A frequent customer, client or business partner.
- (Canada) A coffee with one cream and one sugar.
- A fixed number for each month serving to ascertain the day of the week, or the age of the moon, on the first day of any month.
- A member of the British Army (as opposed to a member of the Territorial Army or Reserve).
- A frequent, routine visitor to an establishment.
- A member of a religious order who has taken the three ordinary vows.
- A number for each year, giving, added to the concurrents, the number of the day of the week on which the Paschal full moon falls.
- (television) A character who appears in every episode of a TV series; a member of the regular cast.
- a soldier in the regular army
- a dependable follower (especially in party politics)
- a regular patron
- a garment size for persons of average height and weight
adj
- Demonstrating a consistent set of rules; showing order, evenness of operation or occurrence.
- (botany, zoology) Having all the parts of the same kind alike in size and shape.
- (chiefly US) Having the expected characteristics or appearances; normal, ordinary, standard.
- (geometry, of a polygon) Both equilateral and equiangular; having all sides of the same length, and all (corresponding) angles of the same size
- (astronomy) Of a moon or other satellite: following a relatively close and prograde orbit with little inclination or eccentricity.
- (Christianity) Bound by religious rule; belonging to a monastic or religious order (often as opposed to secular).
- (mathematical analysis, not comparable, of a Borel measure) Such that every set in its domain is both outer regular and inner regular.
- (colloquial) Exemplary; excellent example of; utter, downright.
- Happening at constant (especially short) intervals.
- (chiefly military) Permanently organised; being part of a set professional body of troops.
- Having bowel movements or menstrual periods at constant intervals in the expected way.
- (snowboarding) Riding with the left foot forward.
- (geometry, of a polyhedron) Whose faces are all congruent regular polygons, equally inclined to each other.
- (crystallography) Isometric.
- (algebraic geometry, not comparable, of a scheme) Such that the local ring at every point is regular.
- (grammar, of a verb, plural, etc) Following a set or common pattern; according to the general rules of a given language.
- Having a constant pattern; showing evenness of form or appearance.
- (commutative algebra, not comparable, of a local ring) Noetherian and such that the minimal number of generators of the maximal ideal is equal to the Krull dimension of the ring.
- officially full-time
- in accordance with fixed order or procedure or principle
- regularly scheduled for fixed times
- symmetrically arranged
- conforming to a standard or pattern
- (used of the military) belonging to or engaged in by legitimate army forces
- not constipated
- in accord with regular practice or procedure
- relating to a person who does something regularly
- not deviating from what is normal
- often used as intensifiers
- occurring at fixed intervals
- (of solids) having clear dimensions that can be measured; volume can be determined with a suitable geometric formula
noun
- A guardsman.
- (countable, formal, military) An enlisted member of a military service, as distinguished from a commissioned officer.
- A term of approbation for a young boy.
- (xiangqi) A xiangqi piece that moves and captures by advancing one point. Once it has crossed the river, it may also move and capture one point horizontally.
- (by extension, nonstandard, countable, military) Any member of a military, regardless of specialty.
- (countable, military) A member of a ground-based army, of any rank, but especially an enlisted member.
- One of the asexual polymorphic forms of termites, in which the head and jaws are very large and strong. The soldiers serve to defend the nest.
- A brick, for example in a course of brickwork, that is laid vertically on its shortest end (smallest face), so that its tallest and slimmest face faces the outside of the wall.
- A low-ranking gangster or member of a gang, especially the mafia, who engages in physical conflict.
- (countable, figurative) Someone who fights or toils well.
- (British, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand) A piece of buttered bread (or toast), cut into a long thin strip for dipping into a soft-boiled egg.
- A member of the Salvation Army.
- A red or cuckoo gurnard (Chelidonichthys cuculus).
- a wingless sterile ant or termite having a large head and powerful jaws adapted for defending the colony
- an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army
verb
- (intransitive) To intentionally restrict labor productivity; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished.
- (transitive, slang) To take a ride on (another person's horse) without permission.
- (intransitive) To serve as a soldier.
- (intransitive) To continue steadfast; to keep striving.
- serve as a soldier in the military
noun
- (military) A sentry etc. manning an observation post.
- (motor racing) Synonym of spotter.
- A person sent as a representative, to a meeting or other function to monitor but not to participate.
- One who makes observations, monitors or takes notice.
- One who adheres or follows laws, guidelines, etc.
- A country or other entity which has limited participation rights within an organization.
- (military) A crew member on an aircraft who makes observations of enemy positions or aircraft.
- an expert who observes and comments on something
- a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses
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- A commando trooper.
- (historical) An organized force of Boer troops in South Africa; a raid by such troops.
- A small fighting force specially trained for making quick destructive raids against enemy-held areas.
- an amphibious military unit trained for raids into enemy territory
- a member of a military unit trained as shock troops for hit-and-run raids
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- A person who guards military prisoners on fatigue duty; a prison guard.
- (slang) A person who seeks partners with HIV in order to become infected.
- (slang) A drink consumed after another of a different kind.
- One of a series of adjacent light bulbs that cycle on and off to give the illusion of movement.
- (equestrianism) A horse trained for steeplechasing; a steeplechaser.
- (slang) A chaser for overweight or obese people; a chubby chaser.
- Something or someone who chases.
- (timber industry) One who unhooks chokers from the logs at the landing.
- (taxonomy) Any dragonfly of family Libellulidae.
- (LGBTQ slang) A chaser for transgender people; a tranny chaser.
- Someone who chases (decorates) metal; a person who decorates metal by engraving or embossing.
- (nautical) A chase gun.
- A tool used for cleaning out screw threads, either as an integral part of a tap or die to remove waste material produced by the cutting tool, or as a separate tool to repair damaged threads.
- A long piece of flexible wire used to draw an electrical cable through a wall cavity.
- (fiction, Harry Potter) In the sport of Quidditch or Muggle quidditch, a player responsible for passing the quaffle and scoring goals with it.
- a person who is pursuing and trying to overtake or capture
- a drink to follow immediately after another drink
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- A sentry, watch, or guard.
- (computer science) A unique value recognised by a computer program for processing in a special way, or marking the end of a set of data.
- (attributive, medicine, epidemiology) A sign of a health risk (e.g. a disease, an adverse effect).
- A sentinel crab.
- a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
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- A paramedic, someone with special training in first aid, especially in the military.
- A physician.
- A medical student.
- Alternative spelling of medick (“herb of the genus Medicago”).
- a medical practitioner in the armed forces
- any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves
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- (military) A private in the line.
- (soccer) An assistant referee.
- A person employed to work on electrical lines; a lineman.
- (American football) An official whose primary task is to determine whether there has been a line of scrimmage violation.
- (ice hockey) An official whose primary task is to watch the blue line and determine when there has been an offside.
- male official (in tennis, soccer, football, etc.) who assists the referee in some way (especially by watching for out of bounds or offside)
- a male person who installs or repairs electrical or telephone lines
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- (military) The guards who go the rounds for observation; a detachment whose duty it is to patrol.
- (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) 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.
- (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.
- (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.
- a group that goes through a region at regular intervals for the purpose of security
- the activity of going around or through an area at regular intervals for security purposes
- a detachment used for security or reconnaissance
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- (especially heraldry) Having a guard, e.g. a crossguard (on a sword), a faceguard (on a helmet), or a hatguard (on a chapeau).
- Watched over; supervised.
- Cautious; restrained.
- (medicine, of prognosis) A good outcome has fair odds of happening but close monitoring is important because odds of deterioration are not low.
- prudent