Soldier vs Scout - What's the difference?
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A member of an army, of any rank.
*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:I am a soldier and unapt to weep.
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*:Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile?; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.
*2012 , August 1. Owen Gibson in Guardian Unlimited,
*:Stanning, who was commissioned from Sandhurst in 2008 and has served in Aghanistan, is not the first solider to bail out the organisers at these Games but will be among the most celebrated.
A private in military service, as distinguished from an officer.
*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:It were meet that any one, before he came to be a captain, should have been a soldier .
A guardsman.
A member of the Salvation Army.
A piece of buttered bread (or toast), cut into a long thin strip and dipped into a soft-boiled egg.
A term of affection for a young boy.
Someone who fights or toils well.
The red or cuckoo gurnard (Trigla pini ).
One of the asexual polymorphic forms of white ants, or termites, in which the head and jaws are very large and strong. The soldiers serve to defend the nest.
To continue.
To be a soldier.
To intentionally restrict labor productivity; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished. Has also been called dogging it'' or ''goldbricking . (Originally from the way that conscripts may approach following orders. Usage less prevalent in the era of all-volunteer militaries.)
A person sent out to gain and bring in tidings; especially, one employed in war to gain information about the enemy and ground.
An act of scouting or reconnoitering.
* Cowper
A member of any number of youth organizations belonging to the international movement, such as the Boy Scouts of America or Girl Scouts of the United States.
A person who assesses and/or recruits others; especially, one who identifies promising talent on behalf of a sports team.
(British) A college student's or undergraduate's servant; -- so called in Oxford, England; at Cambridge called a gyp; and at Dublin, a skip.
(British, cricket) A fielder in a game for practice.
A fighter aircraft.
(intransitive) To explore a wide terrain, as on a search; to reconnoiter.
To observe, watch, or look for, as a scout; to follow for the purpose of observation, as a scout.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
To reject with contempt.
* 1610 , , act 3 scene 2
* Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
To scoff.
* 1851 , (Herman Melville), , ch. 45
(dated) A swift sailing boat.
* Samuel Pepys
As proper nouns the difference between soldier and scout
is that soldier is a city in iowa while scout is .As a noun scout is
a member of any of various scouting organizations.soldier
English
Alternative forms
* soldior (obsolete) * soldiour (obsolete) * souldier (obsolete) * souldior (obsolete) * souldiour (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)London 2012: rowers Glover and Stanning win Team GB's first gold medal
Synonyms
* (member of an army) grunt, sweat, old sweat, TommyVerb
(en verb)Derived terms
* soldierlySee also
* soldier on * toy soldier, plastic soldier * soldier ant, soldier bee * soldier of fortune * construction soldierAnagrams
*scout
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- while the rat is on the scout
Verb
- Take more men, and scout him round.
Derived terms
* scout about * scout around * scout out * scout round * scout upEtymology 2
Of Scandinavian origin: compare Old Norse sk?ti, sk?ta = "taunt"; thus may be related to "shout".Verb
(en verb)- to scout an idea or an apology
- Flout 'em and scout' 'em; and ' scout 'em and flout 'em: / Thought is free.
- I don't think I had any definite idea where Dora came from, or in what degree she was related to a higher order of beings; but I am quite sure I should have scouted the notion of her being simply human, like any other young lady, with indignation and contempt.
- So ignorant are most landsmen of some of the plainest and most palpable wonders of the world, that without some hints touching the plain facts, historical and otherwise, of the fishery, they might scout at Moby Dick as a monstrous fable, or still worse and more detestable, a hideous and intolerable allegory.
Etymology 3
Icelandic skta? a small craft or cutter.Noun
(en noun)- So we took a scout , very much pleased with the manner and conversation of the passengers.
