Sergeant

['sɑːdʒ(ə)nt] or ['sɑrdʒənt]

解释:

(noun.) any of several noncommissioned officer ranks in the Army or Air Force or Marines ranking above a corporal.

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解释:

(n.) Formerly, in England, an officer nearly answering to the more modern bailiff of the hundred; also, an officer whose duty was to attend on the king, and on the lord high steward in court, to arrest traitors and other offenders. He is now called sergeant-at-arms, and two of these officers, by allowance of the sovereign, attend on the houses of Parliament (one for each house) to execute their commands, and another attends the Court Chancery.

(n.) In a company, battery, or troop, a noncommissioned officer next in rank above a corporal, whose duty is to instruct recruits in discipline, to form the ranks, etc.

(n.) A lawyer of the highest rank, answering to the doctor of the civil law; -- called also serjeant at law.

(n.) A title sometimes given to the servants of the sovereign; as, sergeant surgeon, that is, a servant, or attendant, surgeon.

(n.) The cobia.

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解释:

n. a non-commissioned officer of the army and marines next above a corporal overlooking the soldiers in barracks and assisting the officers in all ways in the field: a bailiff: a constable: a servant in monastic offices: a police-officer of superior rank.—ns. Ser′geancy Ser′geantcy Ser′geantship office of a sergeant; Ser′geant-at-arms an officer of a legislative body for keeping order &c.; Ser′geant-fish the cobra so called from the lateral stripes; Ser′geant-mā′jor the highest non-commissioned officer employed to assist the adjutant: the cow-pilot a fish; Ser′geantry Ser′geanty a kind of feudal tenure on condition of service due to the king only; Ser′jeant-at-arms an officer who attends upon the Lord Chancellor with the mace and who executes various writs of process in the course of a Chancery suit: a similar officer who attends on each House of Parliament and arrests any person ordered by the House to be arrested; Ser′jeant-at-law formerly in England the highest degree of barrister once with exclusive audience in the Court of Common Pleas their proper dress a violet-coloured robe with a scarlet hood and a black coif represented in modern times by a patch of silk at the top of the wig.—Grand sergeanty a tenure of lands by special honorary service to the king; Petit sergeanty a tenure of lands by a rent or tender.

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