Soldier vs Agent - What's the difference?
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A member of an army, of any rank.
*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:I am a soldier and unapt to weep.
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*:Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile?; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.
*2012 , August 1. Owen Gibson in Guardian Unlimited,
*:Stanning, who was commissioned from Sandhurst in 2008 and has served in Aghanistan, is not the first solider to bail out the organisers at these Games but will be among the most celebrated.
A private in military service, as distinguished from an officer.
*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:It were meet that any one, before he came to be a captain, should have been a soldier .
A guardsman.
A member of the Salvation Army.
A piece of buttered bread (or toast), cut into a long thin strip and dipped into a soft-boiled egg.
A term of affection for a young boy.
Someone who fights or toils well.
The red or cuckoo gurnard (Trigla pini ).
One of the asexual polymorphic forms of white ants, or termites, in which the head and jaws are very large and strong. The soldiers serve to defend the nest.
To continue.
To be a soldier.
To intentionally restrict labor productivity; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished. Has also been called dogging it'' or ''goldbricking . (Originally from the way that conscripts may approach following orders. Usage less prevalent in the era of all-volunteer militaries.)
One who exerts power, or has the power to act; an actor.
One who acts for, or in the place of, another (the principal), by authority from him; one intrusted with the business of another; a substitute; a deputy; a factor.
An active power or cause; that which has the power to produce an effect; as, a physical, chemical, or medicinal agent ; as, heat is a powerful agent.
(computing) In the client-server model, the part of the system that performs information preparation and exchange on behalf of a client or server. Especially in the phrase “intelligent agent” it implies some kind of autonomous process which can communicate with other agents to perform some collective task on behalf of one or more humans.
(grammar) The participant of a situation that carries out the action in this situation, e.g. "the boy" in the sentences "The boy kicked the ball" and "The ball was kicked by the boy".
As nouns the difference between soldier and agent
is that soldier is a member of an army, of any rank while agent is one who exerts power, or has the power to act; an actor.As a verb soldier
is to continue.As a proper noun Soldier
is a city in Iowa.soldier
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Alternative forms
* soldior (obsolete) * soldiour (obsolete) * souldier (obsolete) * souldior (obsolete) * souldiour (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)London 2012: rowers Glover and Stanning win Team GB's first gold medal
Synonyms
* (member of an army) grunt, sweat, old sweat, TommyVerb
(en verb)Derived terms
* soldierlySee also
* soldier on * toy soldier, plastic soldier * soldier ant, soldier bee * soldier of fortune * construction soldierAnagrams
*agent
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(wikipedia agent)Noun
(en noun)- Heaven made us agents , free to good or ill. --Dryden.
- I see in him [Moby Dick] outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it. That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate; and be the white whale agent , or be the white whale principal, I will wreak that hate upon him. --Herman Melville, , ch. 36