Regiment vs Stern - What's the difference?
regiment | stern |
(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:
* 2005 , Nicholas Watt & Michael White, The Guardian , 28 April 2005:
* 1576 , (Abraham Fleming), translating Cicero, A Panoplie of Epistles , XXXIII:
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.8:
* 1832 , , The Province of Jurisprudence Determined , VI:
(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.
(obsolete, medicine) A regimen.
Having a hardness and severity of nature or manner.
* (John Dryden)
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, title= Grim and forbidding in appearance.
* (William Wordsworth)
(nautical) The rear part or after end of a ship or vessel.
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, title= (figurative) The post of management or direction.
* (William Shakespeare)
The hinder part of anything.
The tail of an animal; now used only of the tail of a dog.
(l) (luminous dot appearing in the night sky)
As nouns the difference between regiment and stern
is that regiment is regiment (army unit) while stern is a star; a small luminous dot that can be seen on the night sky.regiment
English
(wikipedia regiment)Noun
(en noun)- 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 .
- 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.
- What place is there in all the world, not subiect to the regiment and power of this citie?
- Then loyall love had royall regiment , / And each unto his lust did make a lawe, / From all forbidden things his liking to withdraw.
- 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?
- (Spenser)
Anagrams
* ----stern
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) stern, sterne, sturne, from (etyl) .Adjective
(er)- stern as tutors, and as uncles hard
Snakes and ladders, passage=Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins.}}
- these barren rocks, your stern inheritance
Etymology 2
Most likely from (etyl) , from the same Germanic root.Noun
(wikipedia stern) (en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Old Applegate, in the stern', just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the ' stern .}}
- and sit chiefest stern of public weal
- (Spenser)