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As nouns the difference between scheme and regiment

is that scheme is while regiment is regiment (army unit).

scheme

English

(wikipedia scheme)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A systematic plan of future action.
  • * Jonathan Swift
  • The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
  • * {{quote-magazine, title=Ideas coming down the track, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838
  • , page=13 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=A “moving platform” scheme
  • A plot or secret, devious plan.
  • An orderly combination of related parts.
  • * John Locke
  • the appearance and outward scheme of things
  • * Atterbury
  • such a scheme of things as shall at once take in time and eternity
  • * J. Edwards
  • arguments sufficient to support and demonstrate a whole scheme of moral philosophy
  • * Macaulay
  • The Revolution came and changed his whole scheme of life.
  • A chart or diagram of a system or object.
  • * South
  • to draw an exact scheme of Constantinople, or a map of France
  • (mathematics) A type of topological space.
  • (UK, chiefly, Scotland) A council housing estate.
  • * 2008 , (James Kelman), Kieron Smith, Boy , Penguin 2009, p. 101:
  • It was all too dear. They all just put their prices up because it was out in the scheme .
  • (rhetoric) An artful deviation from the ordinary arrangement of words.
  • (astrology) A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
  • a blue case, from which was drawn a scheme of nativity
  • Part of a uniform resource identifier indicating the protocol or other purpose, such as http: or news:.
  • Usage notes

    In the US, generally has devious connotations, while in the UK, frequently used as a neutral term for projects: “The road is closed due to a pavement-widening scheme.”

    Synonyms

    * (a systematic plan of future action) blueprint

    Verb

    (schem)
  • To plot, or contrive a plan.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=April 26 , author=Tasha Robinson , title=Film: Reviews: The Pirates! Band Of Misfits : , work=The Onion AV Club citation , page= , passage=The openly ridiculous plot has The Pirate Captain (Hugh Grant) scheming to win the Pirate Of The Year competition, even though he’s a terrible pirate, far outclassed by rivals voiced by Jeremy Piven and Salma Hayek. }}

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    regiment

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (military) A unit of armed troops under the command of an officer, and consisting of several smaller units; now specifically, usually composed of two or more battalions.
  • * 1901 , (Rudyard Kipling), Kim , III:
  • It was an old, withered man, who had served the Government in the days of the Mutiny as a native officer in a newly raised cavalry regiment .
  • * 2005 , Nicholas Watt & Michael White, The Guardian , 28 April 2005:
  • As the prime minister insisted that he had "never told a lie" in his life, the Tory leader attacked him for ordering Scottish troops into battle with no warning that their regiments would be disbanded.
  • * 1576 , (Abraham Fleming), translating Cicero, A Panoplie of Epistles , XXXIII:
  • What place is there in all the world, not subiect to the regiment and power of this citie?
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.8:
  • Then loyall love had royall regiment , / And each unto his lust did make a lawe, / From all forbidden things his liking to withdraw.
  • * 1832 , , The Province of Jurisprudence Determined , VI:
  • And how is it possible to distinguish precisely […] the powers of ecclesiastical regiment' which none but the church should wield from the powers of ecclesiastical '''regiment (on the ''jus circa sacra ) which secular and profane governments may handle without sin?
  • (obsolete) The state or office of a ruler; rulership.
  • (obsolete) Influence or control exercised by someone or something (especially a planet).
  • (obsolete) A place under a particular rule; a kingdom or domain.
  • (Spenser)
  • (obsolete, medicine) A regimen.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To form soldiers into a regiment.
  • To systematize, or put in rigid order.
  • Anagrams

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