Patrol
[pə'trəʊl] or [pə'trol]
Definition
(noun.) the activity of going around or through an area at regular intervals for security purposes.
(noun.) a detachment used for security or reconnaissance.
(noun.) a group that goes through a region at regular intervals for the purpose of security.
(verb.) maintain the security of by carrying out a patrol.
Checker: Lucy--From WordNet
Definition
(v. i.) To go the rounds along a chain of sentinels; to traverse a police district or beat.
(v.) t To go the rounds of, as a sentry, guard, or policeman; as, to patrol a frontier; to patrol a beat.
(v. i.) 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.
(v. i.) 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.
(v. i.) The guard or men who go the rounds for observation; a detachment whose duty it is to patrol.
(v. i.) Any perambulation of a particular line or district to guard it; also, the men thus guarding; as, a customs patrol; a fire patrol.
Typed by Angelo
Definition
v.i. to go the rounds in a camp or garrison: to watch and protect.—v.t. to pass round as a sentry:—pr.p. patrōl′ling; pa.t. and pa.p. patrōlled′.—n. the marching round of a guard in the night: the guard or men who make a patrol: (also Patrōl′man) a policeman who walks about a certain beat for a specified time such policemen collectively.
Editor: Monica
Examples
- He must have been one of a patrol scattered out in these hills. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It was a Fascist Patrol coming home. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Then, still holding the safeconduct, the control patrol came over, shouting, to the truck driver whose load was spilled. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- But when the patrol misses him they will follow his tracks here. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Unless something happens to the patrol. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It must have been bad enough when the leader of the first patrol of cavalry had pointed toward the entry because they were all talking very much. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- A patrol and part of a squadron. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- However, Versailles patrols drove them in again; as the vigilant Lecointre had strictly charged them to do. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- You are strongly guarded and a quadruple force patrols the sky. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- The royal carriages again attempt egress--though for trial merely; they are again driven in by Lecointres patrols. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was whisperingly asserted that footsteps, in the dead of night, had been heard descending the garret stairs, and patrolling the house. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- We were now in a quandary as to how to pass the guards who patrolled the island about the pool. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- From Xodar I learned the duties and customs of the guards who patrolled Shador. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The Tennessee River was patrolled by gunboats, from Muscle Shoals east; and, also, below the second shoals out to the Ohio River. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
Checker: Lucy