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Personnel vs Quartering - What's the difference?

personnel | quartering |

As nouns the difference between personnel and quartering

is that personnel is employees; office staff while quartering is the act of providing housing for military personnel, especially when imposed upon the home of a private citizen.

As a verb quartering is

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As an adjective quartering is

(nautical) coming from a point well abaft the beam, but not directly astern; said of waves or any moving object.

personnel

English

Noun

(-)
  • employees; office staff

    • Usage notes

    * Not to be confused with personal.

    quartering

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of providing housing for military personnel, especially when imposed upon the home of a private citizen.
  • The method of capital punishment where a criminal is cut into four pieces.
  • (heraldry) The division of a shield containing different coats of arms into four or more compartments.
  • (heraldry) One of the different coats of arms arranged upon an escutcheon, denoting the descent of the bearer.
  • (architecture) A series of quarters, or small upright posts.

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • (nautical) Coming from a point well abaft the beam, but not directly astern; said of waves or any moving object.
  • (engineering) At right angles, as the cranks of a locomotive, which are in planes forming a right angle with each other.
    • (Webster 1913)