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Picket vs Attendant - What's the difference?

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Picket is a related term of attendant.


As nouns the difference between picket and attendant

is that picket is a stake driven into the ground while attendant is one who attends; one who works with or watches something.

As a verb picket

is to protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.

As an adjective attendant is

going with; associated; concomitant.

picket

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A stake driven into the ground.
  • (historical) A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.
  • A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.
  • (military) Soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance. It can also refer to any unit (for example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function.
  • * 1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 59:
    • So confident was he that he ignored the warning of his two British advisers to post pickets to watch the river, and even withdrew those they had placed there.
  • A sentry. Can be used figuratively.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
    • , chapter=26, title= The Dust of Conflict , passage=Maccario, it was evident, did not care to take the risk of blundering upon a picket , and a man led them by twisting paths until at last the hacienda rose blackly before them.}}
  • A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.
  • * , chapter=22
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.}}
  • (card games) The card game piquet.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.
  • To enclose or fortify with pickets or pointed stakes.
  • To tether to, or as if to, a picket.
    • to picket a horse
  • To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.
  • (obsolete) To torture by forcing to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.

    • Derived terms

    * picket line * picketing * unpicketed ----

    attendant

    English

    Alternative forms

    * attendaunt (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who attends; one who works with or watches something.
    • Give your keys to the parking attendants and they will park your car for you.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Going with; associated; concomitant.
    • They promoted him to supervisor, with all the attendant responsibilities and privileges.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • The natural melancholy attendant upon his situation added to the gloom of the owner of the mansion.
  • (legal) Depending on, or owing duty or service to.
    • the widow attendant to the heir
    (Cowell)

    See also

    * part and parcel ----