Billet vs Barrack - What's the difference?
billet | barrack |
A short informal letter.
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A written order to quarter soldiers.
A place where a soldier is assigned to lodge.
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An allocated space or berth in a boat or ship.
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To lodge soldiers, usually by order.
* (Washington Irving) (1783-1859)
To lodge, or be quartered, in a private house.
(label) To direct, by a ticket or note, where to lodge.
metallurgy a semi-finished length of metal
a short piece of wood, especially one used as firewood
* Shakespeare
(heraldiccharge) A rectangle used as a charge on an escutcheon
(architecture) An ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of wood either square or round.
(saddlery) A strap which enters a buckle.
A loop which receives the end of a buckled strap.
(military, chiefly, in the plural) A building for soldiers, especially within a garrison; originally referred to temporary huts, now usually to a permanent structure or set of buildings .
* 1829 , , The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , Volume 4,
* 1919 , , Army Reorganization: Hearings Before the Committee on Military Affairs, House of Representatives, 66th Congress, 1st Session, on H.R. 8287, H.R. 8068, H.R. 7925, H.R. 8870, Sept. 3, 1919-Nov. 12, 1919 , Parts 23-43,
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(chiefly, in the plural) primitive structure resembling a long shed or barn for (usually temporary) housing or other purposes
(chiefly, in the plural) any very plain, monotonous, or ugly large building
(US, regional) A movable roof sliding on four posts, to cover hay, straw, etc.
(Ireland, colloquial, usually, in the plural) A police station.
To house military personnel; to quarter.
* 1825 , , The Republican , Volume 11,
To live in barracks.
(British) To jeer and heckle; to attempt to disconcert by verbal means.
* 1934 , , Herbert Chapman on Football ,
* 2006 , Ramsay Burt, Judson Dance Theater: Performative traces ,
* 2009 , , The Heart of the Game ,
(Australia, New Zealand, intransitive) To cheer for a team; to jeer at the opposition team or at the umpire (after an adverse decision).
* 1988 , J. A. Mangan (editor), Pleasure, Profit, Proselytism: British Culture and Sport at Home and Abroad 1700-1914 ,
* 2009 , Roger Averill, Boy He Cry: An Island Odyssey ,
* 2010 , John Cash, Joy Damousi, Footy Passions ,
As a noun billet
is ticket.As a proper noun barrack is
(male).billet
English
(wikipedia billet)Etymology 1
From (etyl) bylet, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- However, when his cool reflections returned, he plainly perceived that his case was neither mended nor altered by Sophia's billet
Etymology 2
(etyl) .Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets .}}
- 17 June 1940': Prime Minister Pétain requests armistice. Germans use the Foucaults’ holiday home as officers’ ' billet . Foucault steals firewood for school from collaborationist militia. Foucault does well at school, but messes up his summer exams in 1940.
Verb
- Billeted in so antiquated a mansion.
Etymology 3
(etyl) billette, from ).Noun
(en noun)- They shall beat out my brains with billets .
- (Knight)
barrack
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) baraque; from (etyl) barraca.Noun
(en noun)page 67,
- Before the gates of Bari, he lodged in a miserable hut or barrack , composed of dry branches, and thatched with straw; a perilous station, on all sides open to the inclemency of the winter and the spears of the enemy.
page 1956,
- How do you distinguish between the disciplinary barracks' and the penitentiary? Where are the disciplinary ' barracks ?
page 129,
- I know the barracks at the training camp out on the moors.
Verb
(en verb)page 276,
- Where the men were barracked' alone, unnatural crime prevailed : where the women were ' barracked , contrivances were made to render such a place a brothel.
Etymology 2
Verb
(en verb)page 140,
- I knew that he had been barracked at times, but I did not realise that he was so sensitive.
page 192,
- Some people stopped concentrating on the piece altogether, some started barracking and heckling, while others began chatting to one another.
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- Its basic tenet was to say that if those Arsenal supporters who barracked' the board at home games could do any better, let them come forward, put some money in the club, and have a go at being directors themselves. In short, ‘Put up or shut up’, which, of course, only encouraged Johnny and One-armed Lou to heckle the Arsenal board even more. Dear old Dennis, he had no idea the ' barracking he and his fellow Arsenal directors suffered at every home game came from Spurs supporters.
page 266,
- The only really unique aspect of Australian barracking is its idiom, the distinctive language and humour involved.
page 115,
- I had by then explained to him my custom of occasionally listening to Australian Rules Football on our shortwave radio of a Saturday afternoon; how, despite my barracking for Essendon, I thought a player from Geelong, Gary Ablett, the best I had ever seen.
page 75,
- ‘So to me barracking' for the footy I identified with my father, although nobody ' barracked for Essendon.’