Shepherd vs Patrol - What's the difference?
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A person who tends sheep, especially a grazing flock.
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*:It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd' s plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.
(lb) Someone who watches over]], [[look after, looks after, or guides somebody.
*1769 , Oxford Standard text, , 23, i,
*:The LORD is my shepherd ; I shall not want.
(lb) The pastor of a church; one who guides others in religion.
To watch over; to guide
(Australian rules football) For a player to obstruct an opponent from getting to the ball, either when a teammate has it or is going for it, or if the ball is about to bounce through the goal or out of bounds.
(military) A going of the rounds along the chain of sentinels and between the posts, by a guard, usually consisting of three or four men, to insure greater security from attacks on the outposts.
(military) A movement, by a small body of troops beyond the line of outposts, to explore the country and gain intelligence of the enemy's whereabouts.
(military) The guard or men who go the rounds for observation; a detachment whose duty it is to patrol.
Any perambulation of a particular line or district to guard it; also, the men thus guarding; as, a customs patrol; a fire patrol.
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, title= (Scouting) A unit of a troop, typically composed of around eight boys.
To go the rounds along a chain of sentinels; to traverse a police district or beat.
To go the rounds of, as a sentry, guard, or policeman; as, to patrol a frontier; to patrol a beat.
As nouns the difference between shepherd and patrol
is that shepherd is a person who tends sheep, especially a grazing flock while patrol is a going of the rounds along the chain of sentinels and between the posts, by a guard, usually consisting of three or four men, to insure greater security from attacks on the outposts.As verbs the difference between shepherd and patrol
is that shepherd is to watch over; to guide while patrol is to go the rounds along a chain of sentinels; to traverse a police district or beat.As a proper noun Shepherd
is {{surname}.shepherd
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Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia shepherd)Synonyms
* sheepherderCoordinate terms
* shepherdessDerived terms
* archshepherd, Archshepherd (Koine Greek: 5:4) * chief shepherd, Chief Shepherd * shepherd's crook * shepherd's pie * undershepherdVerb
(en verb)patrol
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(Webster 1913)Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl) patrouille, from (etyl) patrouille, . Related to (l), (l).Noun
(en noun)- In France there is an army of patrols to secure her fiscal regulations.
Boots on the street, passage=Philadelphia’s foot-patrol' strategy was developed after a study in 2009 by criminologists from Temple University, which is in the 22nd district. A randomised trial overturned the conventional view that foot ' patrols make locals like the police more and fear crime less, but do not actually reduce crime. In targeted areas, violent crime decreased by 23%.}}
