"drumhead court-martial" meaning in All languages combined

See drumhead court-martial on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: drumhead court-martials [plural]
Etymology: Perhaps because a drumhead had to be used as a meeting point or an improvised writing table. Head templates: {{en-noun}} drumhead court-martial (plural drumhead court-martials)
  1. (military) A court-martial held in the field to hear urgent charges of offences committed in action. Wikipedia link: drumhead court-martial Categories (topical): Military Synonyms: drum-head court, drumhead tribunal Translations (field court-martial): standret [common-gender] (Danish), kenttäoikeus (Finnish), Standgericht [neuter] (German), sąd wojenny [masculine] (Polish), sąd polowy [masculine] (Polish), военно-полевой суд (vojenno-polevoj sud) (Russian)

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

{
  "etymology_text": "Perhaps because a drumhead had to be used as a meeting point or an improvised writing table.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "drumhead court-martials",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "drumhead court-martial (plural drumhead court-martials)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Danish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with German translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Polish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Russian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Military",
          "orig": "en:Military",
          "parents": [
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "So of course the citizen was only waiting for the wink of the word and he starts gassing out of him about the invincibles and the old guard and the men of sixtyseven and who fears to speak of ninetyeight and Joe with him about all the fellows that were hanged, drawn and transported for the cause by drumhead courtmartial and a new Ireland and new this, that and the other.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Jorg Baberowski, “Law, the judicial system and the legal profession”, in Dominic Lieven, editor, The Cambridge History of Russia, volume 2, Cambridge University Press, page 366:",
          "text": "Between the summer of 1906 and the beginning of 1907, Prime Minister Stolypin used the powers which the Emergency Laws gave him to have more than one thousand terrorists sentenced to death by drumhead courts martial (voennye polevye sudy).",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "text": "See also citations under drum-head court."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A court-martial held in the field to hear urgent charges of offences committed in action."
      ],
      "id": "en-drumhead_court-martial-en-noun-O04pz~~H",
      "links": [
        [
          "military",
          "military"
        ],
        [
          "court-martial",
          "court-martial"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(military) A court-martial held in the field to hear urgent charges of offences committed in action."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "drum-head court"
        },
        {
          "word": "drumhead tribunal"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "military",
        "politics",
        "war"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "field court-martial",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "standret"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "field court-martial",
          "word": "kenttäoikeus"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "field court-martial",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Standgericht"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "field court-martial",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "sąd wojenny"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "field court-martial",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "sąd polowy"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "vojenno-polevoj sud",
          "sense": "field court-martial",
          "word": "военно-полевой суд"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "drumhead court-martial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "drumhead court-martial"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "Perhaps because a drumhead had to be used as a meeting point or an improvised writing table.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "drumhead court-martials",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "drumhead court-martial (plural drumhead court-martials)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Terms with Danish translations",
        "Terms with Finnish translations",
        "Terms with German translations",
        "Terms with Polish translations",
        "Terms with Russian translations",
        "en:Military"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "So of course the citizen was only waiting for the wink of the word and he starts gassing out of him about the invincibles and the old guard and the men of sixtyseven and who fears to speak of ninetyeight and Joe with him about all the fellows that were hanged, drawn and transported for the cause by drumhead courtmartial and a new Ireland and new this, that and the other.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Jorg Baberowski, “Law, the judicial system and the legal profession”, in Dominic Lieven, editor, The Cambridge History of Russia, volume 2, Cambridge University Press, page 366:",
          "text": "Between the summer of 1906 and the beginning of 1907, Prime Minister Stolypin used the powers which the Emergency Laws gave him to have more than one thousand terrorists sentenced to death by drumhead courts martial (voennye polevye sudy).",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "text": "See also citations under drum-head court."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A court-martial held in the field to hear urgent charges of offences committed in action."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "military",
          "military"
        ],
        [
          "court-martial",
          "court-martial"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(military) A court-martial held in the field to hear urgent charges of offences committed in action."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "military",
        "politics",
        "war"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "drumhead court-martial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "drum-head court"
    },
    {
      "word": "drumhead tribunal"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "field court-martial",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "standret"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "field court-martial",
      "word": "kenttäoikeus"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "field court-martial",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Standgericht"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "field court-martial",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sąd wojenny"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "field court-martial",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sąd polowy"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "vojenno-polevoj sud",
      "sense": "field court-martial",
      "word": "военно-полевой суд"
    }
  ],
  "word": "drumhead court-martial"
}

Download raw JSONL data for drumhead court-martial meaning in All languages combined (3.0kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.