ordo

la-noun

ōrdō m (genitive ōrdinis); third declension

ōrdō (canonical masculine)
ōrdinis (genitive)
ōrdō (nominative singular)
ōrdinēs (nominative plural)
ōrdinis (genitive singular)
ōrdinum (genitive plural)
ōrdinī (dative singular)
ōrdinibus (dative plural)
ōrdinem (accusative singular)
ōrdinēs (accusative plural)
ōrdine (ablative singular)
ōrdinibus (ablative plural)
ōrdō (singular vocative)
ōrdinēs (plural vocative)

Insular Romance:

Sardinian:

Campidanese: òrdini, òldini

Logudorese: òrdine, òldine

Balkano-Romance:

>? Aromanian: urdin

Italo-Dalmatian:

Corsican: ordine, ordini

Dalmatian: jorden

Italian: ordine

→ Romanian: ordin, ordine

Neapolitan: ordine, urdine

Sicilian: ùrdini, òrdini

Rhaeto-Romance:

Friulian: ordin

Romansch: urden, uorden

Gallo-Italic:

Piedmontese: ordo

Gallo-Romance:

Catalan: ordre

French: orne (regional)

Occitan: òrde

Ibero-Romance (probably all semi-learned):

Asturian: orde

Old Galician-Portuguese: orden, ordin

Galician: orde, engorde

Portuguese: ordem

Spanish: orden

⇒ Vulgar Latin: *ōrdinium

Italian: ordigno, ordegno

Borrowings:

→ Albanian: urdhër

→ Proto-Brythonic: *ʉrð

Middle Welsh: urð

Welsh: urdd

Breton: urzh

desc

→ Bulgarian: орден (orden), ордер (order)

→ Danish: orden, ordning, ordre

→ Dutch: orde, order

→ Indonesian: orde

→ English: ordo

→ Esperanto: ordeno, ordino, ordo, ordono

Ido: ordeno, ordino, ordo

→ French: ordo

→ German: Orden, Order, ordern, Ordnung, Ordo

→ Hunsrik: Orde

→ Indonesian: ordo

→ Interlingua: ordine

desctree

→ Old Irish: ord
Irish: ord
Scottish Gaelic: òrd

→ Italian: ordo

→ Norwegian: orden, ordning, ordre

→ Old French: ordre, ordne, ordene

Middle French: ordre

French: ordre

→ Middle English: ordre

English: order

→ Polish: order, ordynek

→ Russian: орден (orden), ордер (order)

→ Scottish Gaelic: òrdaich, òrdugh

→ Swahili: oda

→ Swedish: orden, order, ordning

desc

→ Ukrainian: орден (orden), ордер (order)

From Proto-Italic *ordō (“row, order”); the initial ō- is a secondary development. Probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂or-dʰ-Hō, from *h₂er- (“to fit together”), whence also artus (“joint, limb”).

(military) A rank or line of soldiers; band, troop, company

(military) command, captaincy, generalship


accouterment

accouterments (plural)
accoutrement (alternative Commonwealth)

From Middle French accoustrement, from accoustrer, from Old French acostrer (“arrange, sew up”), first attested in the 1540s.

Thus One / Jovial his Mate bespoke; O Friend, observe, / How gay with all th'Accoutrements of War / The Britons come, with Gold well fraught they come

Three thousand six hundred of the best fighting men, with complete accoutrement; with cannoneers even, and cannon!

1837, Thomas Carlyle, “Give us Arms”, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume I (The Bastille), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book V (The Third Estate), page 182:

He [Manolo] was supposed to have left Spain while he was doing his military service, that is to say he was in the cavalry and he went across the border, and sold his horse and his accoutrement, and so had enough money to come to Paris and be a sculptor.

1933, Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas:

(military, chiefly in the plural) A soldier's equipment, other than weapons and uniform.


ICBM

Just sing out a Te Deum / When you see that ICBM / And the party will be come-as-you-are

1959, “We Will All Go Together When We Go”, in Tom Lehrer (music), An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer, performed by Tom Lehrer:

Iraq could test a North Korean-type ICBM that could deliver a several-hundred-kilogram payload to the United States in the last half of the next decade [the decade beginning with calendar year 2000] depending on the level of foreign assistance.

2002, Alexander T. Lennon, Contemporary Nuclear Debates: Missile Defense, Arms Control, and Arms Races in the Twenty-first Century, MIT Press, →ISBN:

(weaponry) Initialism of intercontinental ballistic missile.

МКБР

abbreviation of intercontinental ballistic missile


ICBM

ICBM (canonical)
aishībīemu (romanization)


glide

From Middle English gliden, from Old English glīdan, from Proto-West Germanic *glīdan, from Proto-Germanic *glīdaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰleydʰ-.
Cognate with West Frisian glide, glydzje, Low German glieden, Dutch glijden, German gleiten, Norwegian Nynorsk gli, Danish glide, Swedish glida, Finnish liitää.

(fencing) An attack or preparatory movement made by sliding down the opponent’s blade, keeping it in constant contact.


kickback

en-noun

kickback (countable and uncountable, plural kickbacks)

kickbacks (plural)
kick-back (alternative)
kick back (alternative)

(uncountable, firearms, machinery) Recoil; a sudden backward motion, usually in the direction of the operator.


peekaboo

peekaboo boxing

a peekaboo guard

(boxing) Being or using a style of boxing with the hands kept close to the face to defend it.


engagement

engagement (countable and uncountable, plural engagements)

After engagement it quickly became clear which of the fencers was going to prevail.

(fencing, countable) The point at which the fencers are close enough to join blades, or to make an effective attack during an encounter.


ROTC

A trumpeteer from Ft. Polk sounded colors and an ROTC color guard raised the US flag to the top of a silver staff.

1982, All Volunteer, volume 35, number 11, page 18:

Reserve Officers' Training Corps
w:Reserve Officers' Training Corps

(US, Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, military) Initialism of Reserve Officers' Training Corps.


barrage

Unadapted borrowing from French barrage (“barrage, barrier”) c. 1859. Compare barrier.

ubor

The 75s of V Corps fired a standard rolling barrage, while the larger 155 mm and 8-inch pieces fired standing barrages 500 meters beyond the barrage line. For the rolling barrage, one battery in each battalion fired low, bursting shrapnel instead of the standard high explosive.

2014, Edward G. Lengel, A Companion to the Meuse-Argonne Campaign, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 350:

(military) A heavy curtain of artillery fire directed in front of one's own troops to screen and protect them.

(fencing) A "next hit wins" contest to determine the winner of a bout in case of a tie.


soldo

eo-head

soldo (accusative singular soldon, plural soldoj, accusative plural soldojn)

soldon (accusative singular)
soldoj (plural)
soldojn (accusative plural)

La duaklasa soldato, kiu estas malfeliĉe kun la magra soldo, decidis ne resoldatiĝi.

The private, unhappy with the meager military pay decided not to reenlist.


forty-four

I went back home and I went to bed;
With a forty-four revolver under my head.

1936 July 4, The Journal of American Folklore, volume 40, number 193, page 221:

(firearms) (Of a gun) firing a 0.44 inch calibre bullet.


forty-eight

They had their ten-day leaves and regular forty-eights from behind the nets of Bantry Bay and Scapa Flow […]

1919, Our Navy, the Standard Publication of the U.S. Navy:

(US, military) A period of 48 hours' leave, i.e. two days.


controller

/kənˈtɹəʊlə/

From Middle English countreroller, from Anglo-Norman contreroulour and Middle French contreroleur (French contrôleur), from Medieval Latin contrārotulātor, from *contrārotulāre (from which control). By surface analysis, control + -er.

(espionage) The person who supervises and handles communication with an agent in the field.


ufficiale

it-noun

ufficiale m (plural ufficiali, feminine ufficialessa)

ufficiali (plural)
ufficialessa (feminine)
officiale (alternative dated)
uffiziale (alternative literary)
ufiziale (alternative literary)

Borrowed from Late Latin officiālis. By surface analysis, ufficio (“office, service”) + -ale (adjective-forming suffix).


IED

en-noun

IED (countable and uncountable, plural IEDs)

She'd been an Army noncombatant, but roadside IEDs didn't distinguish between armed troops and support services.

2017, Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner, page 61:

improvised explosive device
improvised explosive device#English

(weaponry) Initialism of improvised explosive device.

СВП

initialism of improvised explosive device — see also improvised explosive device


AFB

AFB (countable and uncountable, plural AFBs)

Almost two and a half years of repairs paid off in January, when the Frankenjet flew for the first time, from Hill AFB to Lockheed Martin’s F-35 facility in Fort Worth, Texas.

2025 April 10, Brad Lendon, “‘Frankenjet’ stealth fighter made from two wrecked warplanes joins US Air Force fleet”, in CNN:

(military, aviation) Initialism of air force base.


kenttä

kenttä (nominative singular)
kentät (nominative plural)
kenttä (accusative nominative singular)
kentät (accusative nominative plural)
kentän (accusative genitive singular)
kentät (accusative genitive plural)
kentän (genitive singular)
kenttien (genitive plural)
kenttäin (genitive plural rare)
kenttää (partitive singular)
kenttiä (partitive plural)
kentässä (inessive singular)
kentissä (inessive plural)
kentästä (elative singular)
kentistä (elative plural)
kenttään (illative singular)
kenttiin (illative plural)
kentällä (adessive singular)
kentillä (adessive plural)
kentältä (ablative singular)
kentiltä (ablative plural)
kentälle (allative singular)
kentille (allative plural)
kenttänä (essive singular)
kenttinä (essive plural)
kentäksi (singular translative)
kentiksi (plural translative)
kentättä (abessive singular)
kentittä (abessive plural)
kentin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
kenttäni (nominative singular)
kenttäni (nominative plural)
kenttäni (accusative nominative singular)
kenttäni (accusative nominative plural)
kenttäni (accusative genitive singular)
kenttäni (accusative genitive plural)
kenttäni (genitive singular)
kenttieni (genitive plural)
kenttäini (genitive plural rare)
kenttääni (partitive singular)
kenttiäni (partitive plural)
kentässäni (inessive singular)
kentissäni (inessive plural)
kentästäni (elative singular)
kentistäni (elative plural)
kenttääni (illative singular)
kenttiini (illative plural)
kentälläni (adessive singular)
kentilläni (adessive plural)
kentältäni (ablative singular)
kentiltäni (ablative plural)
kentälleni (allative singular)
kentilleni (allative plural)
kenttänäni (essive singular)
kenttinäni (essive plural)
kentäkseni (singular translative)
kentikseni (plural translative)
kentättäni (abessive singular)
kentittäni (abessive plural)
kenttineni (comitative plural)
kenttäsi (nominative singular)
kenttäsi (nominative plural)
kenttäsi (accusative nominative singular)
kenttäsi (accusative nominative plural)
kenttäsi (accusative genitive singular)
kenttäsi (accusative genitive plural)
kenttäsi (genitive singular)
kenttiesi (genitive plural)
kenttäisi (genitive plural rare)
kenttääsi (partitive singular)
kenttiäsi (partitive plural)
kentässäsi (inessive singular)
kentissäsi (inessive plural)
kentästäsi (elative singular)
kentistäsi (elative plural)
kenttääsi (illative singular)
kenttiisi (illative plural)
kentälläsi (adessive singular)
kentilläsi (adessive plural)
kentältäsi (ablative singular)
kentiltäsi (ablative plural)
kentällesi (allative singular)
kentillesi (allative plural)
kenttänäsi (essive singular)
kenttinäsi (essive plural)
kentäksesi (singular translative)
kentiksesi (plural translative)
kentättäsi (abessive singular)
kentittäsi (abessive plural)
kenttinesi (comitative plural)
kenttämme (nominative singular)
kenttämme (nominative plural)
kenttämme (accusative nominative singular)
kenttämme (accusative nominative plural)
kenttämme (accusative genitive singular)
kenttämme (accusative genitive plural)
kenttämme (genitive singular)
kenttiemme (genitive plural)
kenttäimme (genitive plural rare)
kenttäämme (partitive singular)
kenttiämme (partitive plural)
kentässämme (inessive singular)
kentissämme (inessive plural)
kentästämme (elative singular)
kentistämme (elative plural)
kenttäämme (illative singular)
kenttiimme (illative plural)
kentällämme (adessive singular)
kentillämme (adessive plural)
kentältämme (ablative singular)
kentiltämme (ablative plural)
kentällemme (allative singular)
kentillemme (allative plural)
kenttänämme (essive singular)
kenttinämme (essive plural)
kentäksemme (singular translative)
kentiksemme (plural translative)
kentättämme (abessive singular)
kentittämme (abessive plural)
kenttinemme (comitative plural)
kenttänne (nominative singular)
kenttänne (nominative plural)
kenttänne (accusative nominative singular)
kenttänne (accusative nominative plural)
kenttänne (accusative genitive singular)
kenttänne (accusative genitive plural)
kenttänne (genitive singular)
kenttienne (genitive plural)
kenttäinne (genitive plural rare)
kenttäänne (partitive singular)
kenttiänne (partitive plural)
kentässänne (inessive singular)
kentissänne (inessive plural)
kentästänne (elative singular)
kentistänne (elative plural)
kenttäänne (illative singular)
kenttiinne (illative plural)
kentällänne (adessive singular)
kentillänne (adessive plural)
kentältänne (ablative singular)
kentiltänne (ablative plural)
kentällenne (allative singular)
kentillenne (allative plural)
kenttänänne (essive singular)
kenttinänne (essive plural)
kentäksenne (singular translative)
kentiksenne (plural translative)
kentättänne (abessive singular)
kentittänne (abessive plural)
kenttinenne (comitative plural)
kenttänsä (nominative singular)
kenttänsä (nominative plural)
kenttänsä (accusative nominative singular)
kenttänsä (accusative nominative plural)
kenttänsä (accusative genitive singular)
kenttänsä (accusative genitive plural)
kenttänsä (genitive singular)
kenttiensä (genitive plural)
kenttäinsä (genitive plural rare)
kenttäänsä (partitive singular)
kenttiään (partitive plural)
kenttiänsä (partitive plural)
kentässään (inessive singular)
kentässänsä (inessive singular)
kentissään (inessive plural)
kentissänsä (inessive plural)
kentästään (elative singular)
kentästänsä (elative singular)
kentistään (elative plural)
kentistänsä (elative plural)
kenttäänsä (illative singular)
kenttiinsä (illative plural)
kentällään (adessive singular)
kentällänsä (adessive singular)
kentillään (adessive plural)
kentillänsä (adessive plural)
kentältään (ablative singular)
kentältänsä (ablative singular)
kentiltään (ablative plural)
kentiltänsä (ablative plural)
kentälleen (allative singular)
kentällensä (allative singular)
kentilleen (allative plural)
kentillensä (allative plural)
kenttänään (essive singular)
kenttänänsä (essive singular)
kenttinään (essive plural)
kenttinänsä (essive plural)
kentäkseen (singular translative)
kentäksensä (singular translative)
kentikseen (plural translative)
kentiksensä (plural translative)
kentättään (abessive singular)
kentättänsä (abessive singular)
kentittään (abessive plural)
kentittänsä (abessive plural)
kenttineen (comitative plural)
kenttinensä (comitative plural)

[ˈk̟e̞n̪t̪ːæ]

Borrowing from Sami, ultimately from Proto-Samic *kientē.

kenttäsairaala

(military, in compounds) field, modifier that the object is mobile and meant for use in the battlefield


ANA

(military) Initialism of Afghan National Army.


deadline

en-verb

deadline (third-person singular simple present deadlines, present participle deadlining, simple past and past participle deadlined)

deadlines (present singular third-person)
deadlining (participle present)
deadlined (participle past)
deadlined (past)

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, early usage refers to lines that do not move, such as one used in angling. Slightly later American usage refers to a boundary in a prison which prisoners must not cross. There is only indirect evidence that the sense of "due date" may be connected with this use of the term in prison camps during the American Civil War, when it referred to a physical line or boundary beyond which prisoners were shot. In 1904, in a report from the US Department of Commerce and Labor, the term is used for "minimum work goals" (and in contrast to bonus line): for example, as a typographer the line could be 18,000 ems per day; should one not cross this line, then that could have negative consequences. In 1917, the term is attested as a printing term for a guideline on the bed of a printing press beyond which text will not print. Three years later, the term is found in print in the sense of "time limit" in the closely connected publishing industry, indicating the time after which material would not make it into a newspaper or periodical.

(military) To render an item non-mission-capable; to ground an aircraft, etc.


armament

en-noun

armament (countable and uncountable, plural armaments)

From Latin armāmentum, from armō (“I arm”).

(military, naval) All the cannon and small arms collectively, with their equipments, belonging to a ship or a fortification.


turret

From Middle English touret, from Old French torete (French tourette), diminutive of tour (“tower”), from Latin turris. Doublet of tor, tourelle, and tower. See tower.

оръдейна кула

a revolving tower constructed of thick iron plates

(historical, military) A siege tower; a movable building, of a square form, consisting of ten or even twenty stories and sometimes one hundred and twenty cubits high, usually moved on wheels, and employed in approaching a fortified place, for carrying soldiers, engines, ladders, casting bridges, and other necessaries.

armoured fighting vehicle
armoured fighting vehicle

(military) An armoured, rotating gun installation on a fort, ship, aircraft, or armoured fighting vehicle.


cat's-paw

cat's-paw (plural cat's-paws or cats'-paws)

cat's-paws (plural)
cats'-paws (plural)
cat's paw (alternative)
catspaw (alternative)

From cat + paw. In most senses, due to a resemblance of shape. In its senses as a pawn to another's interests or analysis, variant of earlier cat's-foot, derived from European tales of a monkey (attested as early as 1456 but sometimes misattributed to the 16th-century monkey of Pope Julius II) who used a sleeping puppy or cat's foot to rake hot chestnuts out of a fire, taken as a metaphor for rulers' ill use of their subjects. Now usually understood in light of Jean de La Fontaine's 1679 fable of the "The Monkey and the Cat" (sometimes misattributed to Aesop), in which the monkey fools the cat into removing the chestnuts through flattery and promises of shared reward. The cat removes the chestnuts one by one, burning his paw while the monkey eats each in turn. A maid then enters and chases them both away. La Fontaine's moral concludes that princes should not endure real losses for mere flattery from their king.

dupe

one unwittingly used for another's purposes

an unrelated metaphor from a separate story

pull someone's chestnuts out of the fire

(historical weaponry, torture) A metal set of claws worn over the hand or wielded in the hand used to remove skin and flesh.


abc

The first letter of each term; atom, biologisk and kjemisk, borrowed from English English atomic, biological and chemical.

weapons of mass destruction
weapon of mass destruction

(weaponry) initialism of atom-, biologisk and kjemisk: ("atomic, biological and chemical") the three main categories of weapons of mass destruction.


expedition

expedition (countable and uncountable, plural expeditions)

From Middle French expédition, and its source, Latin expeditio.

(military) An important or long journey, for example a march or a voyage

արշավ

An important enterprise, implying a change of place


bear hug

(wrestling) A hold with the arms around the opponent.


receiver

From Anglo-Norman receverre, receivour et al., later also reformed as receive + -er. Compare recevor, rescaivour.

curator

person appointed to settle financial affairs

прыёмнік

electronic device that receives and converts signal

(firearms) The part of a firearm containing the action.


sable

From French sabre, from Hungarian szablya.


DA

(military, of a revolver) Initialism of double action.


Charlie Foxtrot

Charlie Foxtrot (plural Charlie Foxtrots)

That commission's project has become a huge Charlie Foxtrot; who's in charge over there?

Charlie Foxtrot! Tower One approach has active Triple-A!

2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, spoken by Hocus (Debra Wilson Skelton), Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: The Covenant:

(military) Clusterfuck, abbreviated to "CF" and expressed in the NATO phonetic alphabet.


returns

(military) The return of the soldiers fit for duty.


hassle

en-verb

hassle (third-person singular simple present hassles, present participle hassling, simple past and past participle hassled)

hassles (present singular third-person)
hassling (participle present)
hassled (participle past)
hassled (past)

Unknown. Probably from US Southern dialectal hassle (“to pant, breathe noisily”), possibly from haste + -le (frequentative suffix).

Likewise, “hassling”—mock dogfighting—was strictly forbidden, and so naturally young fighter jocks could hardly wait to go up in, say, a pair of F–100s and start the duel by making a pass at each other at 800 miles an hour, […]

If you were caught 'hassling,' as we called dogfighting, your career could end. The edict against dogfighting divided our squadron into three factions.

(military, aviation, slang) To engage in a mock dogfight.


budget

→ Cantonese: budget

desctree

→ French: budget
→ Armenian: բյուջե (byuǰe), պյուտճե (pyutče)
→ German: Budget
→ Ottoman Turkish: بودجه (büdce)
Turkish: bütçe
→ Azerbaijani: büdcə
→ Persian: بودجه (budje)
→ Russian: бюдже́т (bjudžét)

→ Italian: budget

→ Polish: budżet

→ Swahili: bajeti

Recorded since 1432 as Middle English bogett, bouget, bowgette (“leather pouch”), borrowed from Old French bougette, the diminutive of bouge (“leather bag, wallet”) (also the root of bulge), itself from Late Latin bulga (“leather bag, bellow”), which derives from Gaulish *bolgā (compare Old Irish bolg (“bag”), Breton bolc’h (“flax pod”)), a common root with the Germanic family (compare Dutch balg (“bellows”)), from the Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ-. More at belly.

baajeta

the amount of money or resources earmarked for a particular institution, activity or time-frame

(obsolete, military) A socket in which the end of a cavalry carbine rests.


número

→ Hiligaynon: numero

→ Karao: nomiro

→ San Juan Atzingo Popoloca: númērō

→ Tagalog: numero

Borrowed from Latin numerus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nem- (“to assign, allot; take”).


CID

(US, military, law enforcement, initialism) U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command

(US, military, law enforcement, initialism) Former name of NCIS (Naval Criminal Investigation Division).


DILLIGAFF

give a flying fuck
give a flying fuck#English

(US, military slang) Acronym of does it look like I give a flying fuck?.


sild

silla (genitive)
silda (partitive)
sild (nominative singular)
sillad (nominative plural)
sild (accusative nominative singular)
sillad (accusative nominative plural)
silla (accusative genitive singular)
sillad (accusative genitive plural)
silla (genitive singular)
sildade (genitive plural)
silda (partitive singular)
sildu (partitive plural)
sildasid (partitive plural)
silda (illative singular)
sillasse (illative singular)
sildadesse (illative plural)
sillusse (illative plural)
sillas (inessive singular)
sildades (inessive plural)
sillus (inessive plural)
sillast (elative singular)
sildadest (elative plural)
sillust (elative plural)
sillale (allative singular)
sildadele (allative plural)
sillule (allative plural)
sillal (adessive singular)
sildadel (adessive plural)
sillul (adessive plural)
sillalt (ablative singular)
sildadelt (ablative plural)
sillult (ablative plural)
sillaks (singular translative)
sildadeks (plural translative)
silluks (plural translative)
sillani (singular terminative)
sildadeni (plural terminative)
sillana (essive singular)
sildadena (essive plural)
sillata (abessive singular)
sildadeta (abessive plural)
sillaga (comitative singular)
sildadega (comitative plural)

From Proto-Finnic *cilta, earlier *tilta, from a Baltic language (cf. Latvian tilts, Lithuanian tiltas). Cognates include Finnish silta, Ingrian silta, silda, Livonian sīlda, Livvi sildu, Ludian šild, Veps süud, sild, Võro sild, Votic siltõ and Northern Sami šaldi (the latter is derived from Proto-Finnic).

(gymnastics, dance, wrestling) bridge position, backbend


Fanny Adams

sweet Fanny Adams (alternative)
sweet FA (alternative)
SFA (alternative)

From Fanny Adams (1859–1867), a young girl brutally murdered and dismembered. Tins of mutton introduced in the British navy after her death were not liked by the sailors and were humorously said to be her butchered remains. Fanny Adams then came to mean any worthless thing, and, eventually, nothing at all ("sweet F A").
Coincidentally, the initials "FA" also fit the vulgar term fuck all, also meaning "nothing at all", leading to later perception of "Fanny Adams", or "FA", being a euphemism for the latter.

The Engineer Lieutenant pushed his head inside his neighbour's cabin: “Come along—come along! You'll be late for dinner. Fresh grub to-night: no more ‘Russian Kromeskis’ and ‘Fanny Adams’!”

1916, Bartimeus [pseudonym; Sir Lewis Ritchie], Naval Occasions, and Some Traits of the Sailor-man, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons:

(UK, naval slang, obsolete, derogatory) Tinned meat.


NCO

There was for some reason a shortage not only of regular private soldiers but of officers and NCOs.

1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 109:

For Sgt Kudrya, an NCO who has found himself commanding a company because of a lack of officers, this low-level war means a constant struggle with the elements, paper work (he is under constant pressure from above to account for each litre of petrol and round of ammunition), and the erosion of discipline born of boredom.

2017 January 14, Roland Oliphant, “Special report: Loose cannons at the frontline of Ukraine's forgotten war”, in The Telegraph:

non-commissioned officer
non-commissioned officer#English

(military) Initialism of non-commissioned officer.


set up

en-verb

set up (third-person singular simple present sets up, present participle setting up, simple past and past participle set up)

sets up (present singular third-person)
setting up (participle present)
set up (participle past)
set up (past)

When you make an opening you merely cause an opponent to uncover a target somewhere on his person. But when you set up an opponent, you knock him off balance with one punch so that he should be an open target for a following punch. Unless he's knocked off balance, he's not set up.

1950, Jack Dempsey, chapter 23, in Championship Fighting: Explosive Punching and Aggressive Defense:

Writer Danny Wamboldt of Ring magazine said, "Only Willie knew how to set up his opponents masterfully and then move in." Wamboldt, a former New England bantamweight champion and current national president of the Veteran Boxers Association, said that one of Pep's opponents said of his dazzling speed: "It was the first time he had been surrounded by one man."

1997 September 24, Joe Duffy, “TRIBUTES TO THE MAN AND THE BOXER”, in Hartford Courant:

(boxing) To deceive an opponent and capitalize on their reactions with a certain technique or maneuver.


setup

The jab is most commonly used as a setup for other strikes.

(boxing) A move or set of moves which are meant to draw out a reaction which leaves an exploitable opening in defense.


displacement

From French déplacement. Morphologically displace + -ment.

водоизместимост

the quantity of anything, as water, displaced by a floating body, as by a ship

there is no replacement for displacement

(fencing) Moving the target to avoid an attack; dodging.


flick

→ Afrikaans: fliek

From Middle English flykke (“light blow or stroke”). Later uses apparently interpreted as a back-formation from flicker.
The use of flick to mean a film or movie derives from the fact that early films had a low frame rate, thus causing the film to "flick" rapidly when projected onto a screen.

inh

(fencing) A cut that lands with the point, often involving a whip of the foible of the blade to strike at a concealed target.

flikki

a cut that lands with the point (fencing)


specialist

Borrowed from French spécialiste, equivalent to special + -ist.

(US, military) Any of several non-commissioned ranks corresponding to that of corporal.


lancer

(military) A cavalry soldier armed with a lance weapon.


UXB

(military) Initialism of unexploded bomb.


field day

Some postulate the idiomatic usage is derived from the "parade day" military use. A parade is much easier than the soldiers’ usual drilling and intense exercise.

This morning I got up, with great difficulty, at 6.30, and at 7.45 we started out for a Brigade Field Day. Did an attack from 10.30 to 2.30, but it wasn't a strenuous one for me as I was told to "become a casualty" soon after the 3000 yard assault began ….

1937, Siegfried Sassoon, Sherston's Progress, London: Faber, page 621 (in The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston ):

(military) A day for maneuvers and tactical exercises in the field (across the landscape).

(US military, specifically US Navy, US Coast Guard and US Marine Corps) A day on which there is top-to-bottom all-hands cleaning.


technical knockout

en-noun

technical knockout (plural technical knockouts)

technical knockouts (plural)
TKO (alternative)
R.K.O (alternative)

(martial arts) A knockout declared by a referee in cases where a participant is sufficiently injured, unbalanced, or confused and unable to continue the fight


BFE

They sent me way out in BFE looking for the parts.

(vulgar, military slang) Initialism of Bumfuck, Egypt.


jefe

es-noun

jefe m (plural jefes, feminine jefa or jefe, feminine plural jefas or jefes)

jefes (plural)
jefa (feminine)
jefe (feminine)
jefas (feminine plural)
jefes (feminine plural)
gefe (alternative obsolete)
xefe (alternative)

→ English: jefe

→ Bikol Central: hepe

→ Cebuano: hepe

→ Tagalog: hepe

Inherited from Old Spanish xefe, from Old French chief, from Latin caput. Compare Portuguese chefe. Doublet of cabo and chef.

(military) colonel; major; rank between captain and general


jinete

Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic زَنَاتِي (zanáti), the Zenati or Zenata Berbers, known as excellent horse breeders.


sento

Clipping of asento (“attention, ten-hut”).

clipping

(military slang) synonym of asento (“attention, ten-hut”)


heckler

[…] the usual gap between the time the last strike of the day departed and the first night hecklers arrived was closed with "zippers" — night fighters who, using day fighter tactics, proceeded to the target in daylight in time to relieve the last day blanket patrol.

(US, military, slang) An aircraft flying attack missions at night.


käännös

käännös (nominative singular)
käännökset (nominative plural)
käännös (accusative nominative singular)
käännökset (accusative nominative plural)
käännöksen (accusative genitive singular)
käännökset (accusative genitive plural)
käännöksen (genitive singular)
käännösten (genitive plural)
käännöksien (genitive plural)
käännöstä (partitive singular)
käännöksiä (partitive plural)
käännöksessä (inessive singular)
käännöksissä (inessive plural)
käännöksestä (elative singular)
käännöksistä (elative plural)
käännökseen (illative singular)
käännöksiin (illative plural)
käännöksellä (adessive singular)
käännöksillä (adessive plural)
käännökseltä (ablative singular)
käännöksiltä (ablative plural)
käännökselle (allative singular)
käännöksille (allative plural)
käännöksenä (essive singular)
käännöksinä (essive plural)
käännökseksi (singular translative)
käännöksiksi (plural translative)
käännöksettä (abessive singular)
käännöksittä (abessive plural)
käännöksin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
käännökseni (nominative singular)
käännökseni (nominative plural)
käännökseni (accusative nominative singular)
käännökseni (accusative nominative plural)
käännökseni (accusative genitive singular)
käännökseni (accusative genitive plural)
käännökseni (genitive singular)
käännösteni (genitive plural)
käännöksieni (genitive plural)
käännöstäni (partitive singular)
käännöksiäni (partitive plural)
käännöksessäni (inessive singular)
käännöksissäni (inessive plural)
käännöksestäni (elative singular)
käännöksistäni (elative plural)
käännökseeni (illative singular)
käännöksiini (illative plural)
käännökselläni (adessive singular)
käännöksilläni (adessive plural)
käännökseltäni (ablative singular)
käännöksiltäni (ablative plural)
käännökselleni (allative singular)
käännöksilleni (allative plural)
käännöksenäni (essive singular)
käännöksinäni (essive plural)
käännöksekseni (singular translative)
käännöksikseni (plural translative)
käännöksettäni (abessive singular)
käännöksittäni (abessive plural)
käännöksineni (comitative plural)
käännöksesi (nominative singular)
käännöksesi (nominative plural)
käännöksesi (accusative nominative singular)
käännöksesi (accusative nominative plural)
käännöksesi (accusative genitive singular)
käännöksesi (accusative genitive plural)
käännöksesi (genitive singular)
käännöstesi (genitive plural)
käännöksiesi (genitive plural)
käännöstäsi (partitive singular)
käännöksiäsi (partitive plural)
käännöksessäsi (inessive singular)
käännöksissäsi (inessive plural)
käännöksestäsi (elative singular)
käännöksistäsi (elative plural)
käännökseesi (illative singular)
käännöksiisi (illative plural)
käännökselläsi (adessive singular)
käännöksilläsi (adessive plural)
käännökseltäsi (ablative singular)
käännöksiltäsi (ablative plural)
käännöksellesi (allative singular)
käännöksillesi (allative plural)
käännöksenäsi (essive singular)
käännöksinäsi (essive plural)
käännökseksesi (singular translative)
käännöksiksesi (plural translative)
käännöksettäsi (abessive singular)
käännöksittäsi (abessive plural)
käännöksinesi (comitative plural)
käännöksemme (nominative singular)
käännöksemme (nominative plural)
käännöksemme (accusative nominative singular)
käännöksemme (accusative nominative plural)
käännöksemme (accusative genitive singular)
käännöksemme (accusative genitive plural)
käännöksemme (genitive singular)
käännöstemme (genitive plural)
käännöksiemme (genitive plural)
käännöstämme (partitive singular)
käännöksiämme (partitive plural)
käännöksessämme (inessive singular)
käännöksissämme (inessive plural)
käännöksestämme (elative singular)
käännöksistämme (elative plural)
käännökseemme (illative singular)
käännöksiimme (illative plural)
käännöksellämme (adessive singular)
käännöksillämme (adessive plural)
käännökseltämme (ablative singular)
käännöksiltämme (ablative plural)
käännöksellemme (allative singular)
käännöksillemme (allative plural)
käännöksenämme (essive singular)
käännöksinämme (essive plural)
käännökseksemme (singular translative)
käännöksiksemme (plural translative)
käännöksettämme (abessive singular)
käännöksittämme (abessive plural)
käännöksinemme (comitative plural)
käännöksenne (nominative singular)
käännöksenne (nominative plural)
käännöksenne (accusative nominative singular)
käännöksenne (accusative nominative plural)
käännöksenne (accusative genitive singular)
käännöksenne (accusative genitive plural)
käännöksenne (genitive singular)
käännöstenne (genitive plural)
käännöksienne (genitive plural)
käännöstänne (partitive singular)
käännöksiänne (partitive plural)
käännöksessänne (inessive singular)
käännöksissänne (inessive plural)
käännöksestänne (elative singular)
käännöksistänne (elative plural)
käännökseenne (illative singular)
käännöksiinne (illative plural)
käännöksellänne (adessive singular)
käännöksillänne (adessive plural)
käännökseltänne (ablative singular)
käännöksiltänne (ablative plural)
käännöksellenne (allative singular)
käännöksillenne (allative plural)
käännöksenänne (essive singular)
käännöksinänne (essive plural)
käännökseksenne (singular translative)
käännöksiksenne (plural translative)
käännöksettänne (abessive singular)
käännöksittänne (abessive plural)
käännöksinenne (comitative plural)
käännöksensä (nominative singular)
käännöksensä (nominative plural)
käännöksensä (accusative nominative singular)
käännöksensä (accusative nominative plural)
käännöksensä (accusative genitive singular)
käännöksensä (accusative genitive plural)
käännöksensä (genitive singular)
käännöstensä (genitive plural)
käännöksiensä (genitive plural)
käännöstään (partitive singular)
käännöstänsä (partitive singular)
käännöksiään (partitive plural)
käännöksiänsä (partitive plural)
käännöksessään (inessive singular)
käännöksessänsä (inessive singular)
käännöksissään (inessive plural)
käännöksissänsä (inessive plural)
käännöksestään (elative singular)
käännöksestänsä (elative singular)
käännöksistään (elative plural)
käännöksistänsä (elative plural)
käännökseensä (illative singular)
käännöksiinsä (illative plural)
käännöksellään (adessive singular)
käännöksellänsä (adessive singular)
käännöksillään (adessive plural)
käännöksillänsä (adessive plural)
käännökseltään (ablative singular)
käännökseltänsä (ablative singular)
käännöksiltään (ablative plural)
käännöksiltänsä (ablative plural)
käännökselleen (allative singular)
käännöksellensä (allative singular)
käännöksilleen (allative plural)
käännöksillensä (allative plural)
käännöksenään (essive singular)
käännöksenänsä (essive singular)
käännöksinään (essive plural)
käännöksinänsä (essive plural)
käännöksekseen (singular translative)
käännökseksensä (singular translative)
käännöksikseen (plural translative)
käännöksiksensä (plural translative)
käännöksettään (abessive singular)
käännöksettänsä (abessive singular)
käännöksittään (abessive plural)
käännöksittänsä (abessive plural)
käännöksineen (comitative plural)
käännöksinensä (comitative plural)

[ˈk̟æːnːø̞s̠]

kääntää (“to turn; translate”) + -ös. In the sense "translation", coined by Finnish explorer, historian and author Carl Axel Gottlund in 1826.

coin

käännös oikeaan päin!


banquette

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-banquette.wav

Borrowed from French banquette, the diminutive form of banc; by surface analysis, bank + -ette.

(military) A narrow area behind a defensive wall's parapet elevated above its terreplein and used by defenders to shoot at attackers.


intel

Intel is important in espionage.

We have reason to believe one of our people is giving intel to the enemy. Hit an enemy communication center and get us a name.

2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Identify the Spy:

“The Bynar ship went missing on stardate 58934.9.” “Okay, so your intel is legit, but this still feels like a trick.” “No. I'm a changed computer. Just look at me. Do you see the blue light?” “The light is reassuring.”

2023 October 12, Edgar Momplaisir, “A Few Badgeys More” (8:50 from the start), in Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 4, episode 7, spoken by Brad Boimler (Jack Quaid):

Aaaaaand that’s pretty much everything we know about Zazie and David’s ‘ship, but definitely check back here for any and all intel on the couple. ❤

2024 October 30, Gretty Garcia, “Zazie Beetz and David Rysdahl’s Relationship Timeline All in One Place”, in Cosmopolitan:

(especially espionage and military) Intelligence (secret information).


D-Day

A Ukrainian D-day is expected in weeks.

2023 April 2, Dan Sabbagh, Ed Ram, “Surrounded and outgunned, Ukraine’s tank crews prepare for battle of Bakhmut”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(figuratively, chiefly military) The date of any major event planned for the future.


surge

From Middle English surgen, possibly from Middle French sourgir, from Old French surgir (“to rise, ride near the shore, arrive, land”), from Old Catalan surgir, from Latin surgō, contraction of surrigō, subrigō (“lift up, raise, erect; intransitive rise, arise, get up, spring up, grow, etc.”, transitive verb), from sub (“from below; up”) + regō (“to stretch”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃réǵeti (“to straighten; right”), from the root *h₃reǵ-; see regent. Doublet of source. Doublet of sourd.

der

surge capacity; surge fleet; surge deployment capabilities

(US, naval, often attributive) A deployment in large numbers at short notice.


ઉર્દૂ

head

ઉર્દૂ • (urdū) f

gu-noun

ઉર્દૂ • (urdū) f

Borrowed from Classical Persian اُرْدُو (urdū), ultimately from Proto-Turkic *ordu (“army, camp”).

bor+

(military) camp, encampment, cantonment
a market near the camp


ERA

en-noun

ERA (countable and uncountable, plural ERAs)

(military) Initialism of explosive reactive armor.

(UK, military) Initialism of engine room artificer, a Royal Navy position.


quoin

(firearms) A wedge of wood or iron put under the breech of heavy guns or the muzzle of siege-mortars to raise them to the proper level.


козёл

ru-noun+

козёл • (kozjól) m anim or m inan (genitive козла́, nominative plural козлы́, genitive plural козло́в, feminine коза́, relational adjective козли́ный, diminutive ко́злик, augmentative козли́ще)

kozjól (romanization)
козла́ (genitive)
козлы́ (nominative plural)
козло́в (genitive plural)
коза́ (feminine)
козли́ный (adjective relational)
ко́злик (diminutive)
козли́ще (augmentative)
козёл (nominative singular)
козлы́ (nominative plural)
козла́ (genitive singular)
козло́в (genitive plural)
козлу́ (dative singular)
козла́м (dative plural)
козла́ (accusative animate singular)
козло́в (accusative animate plural)
козёл (accusative inanimate singular)
козлы́ (accusative inanimate plural)
козло́м (instrumental singular)
козла́ми (instrumental plural)
козле́ (prepositional singular)
козла́х (plural prepositional)
козёлъ (alternative)

Inherited from Old East Slavic козьлъ (kozĭlŭ), from Proto-Slavic *kozьlъ (“he-goat”), from *koza (“she-goat”) + *-ьlъ.


slick

From Middle English slicke, slike, slyke, from Old English slīc (“sleek, smooth; crafty, cunning, slick”), from Proto-Germanic *slīkaz (“sleek, smooth”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyg-, *sleyǵ- (“to glide, smooth, spread”).
Akin to Dutch sluik, dialectal Dutch sleek (“even, smooth”), Old Norse slíkr (“sleek, smooth”), Old English slician (“to make sleek, smooth, or glossy”).


missio

la-noun

missiō f (genitive missiōnis); third declension

missiō (canonical feminine)
missiōnis (genitive)
missiō (nominative singular)
missiōnēs (nominative plural)
missiōnis (genitive singular)
missiōnum (genitive plural)
missiōnī (dative singular)
missiōnibus (dative plural)
missiōnem (accusative singular)
missiōnēs (accusative plural)
missiōne (ablative singular)
missiōnibus (ablative plural)
missiō (singular vocative)
missiōnēs (plural vocative)

Catalan: messió, → missió

→ English: mission

desctree

French: mission
→ Romanian: misiune
→ Turkish: misyon

German: Mission

Italian: missione

→ Polish: misja

Portuguese: missão

→ Russian: миссия (missija)

Spanish: misión

[…] dum ne quem militem legeret ex eo numero quibus senatus missionem reditumque in patriam negasset ante belli finem.

27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 26.1

[…] provided he did not choose any soldier from those to whom the Senate had refused discharge and a return home before the end of the war


pioneer

/ˌpaɪ.əˈnɪɹ/

From Middle French pionnier (“originally, a foot soldier”), Old French peonier, from peon (“a foot soldier”) (modern French: pion). See pawn (in chess).

uder

[King of] Fess. What thinks your greatnes beſt to be atchieu’d
In purſuit of the Cities ouerthrow?
Bai[azeth]. I wil the captiue Pioners of Argier,
Cut off the water, that by leaden pipes
Runs to the citie from the mountain Carnon, […]

c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene i:

(military) A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances; a sapper.


ADT

en-noun

ADT (countable and uncountable, plural ADTs)

(military) Initialism of accumulated deployed time.

active duty for training
active duty for training#English

(military) Initialism of active duty for training.

(military) Initialism of ative duty tour.

Active Denial Technology
w:Active Denial Technology

(military, weaponry) Initialism of Active Denial Technology.


marmite

→ Catalan: marmita

→ English: marmite

→ Portuguese: marmita

→ Spanish: marmita

→ Greek: μαρμίτα (marmíta)

In Middle French (attested 1388) used in the sense of an earthen or metal cooking-pot; later (17th century) also of bombs or grenades from their resemblance to iron cooking-pots.
Earlier, the noun Old French marmite meant "hypocrite" (attested 1223); the semantic development is explained as the cooking-pot being covered and not revealing its interior (thus being "hypocritical", as compared to e.g. a cooking-pan or a plate).
The etymology of marmite "hypocrite" is explained as a compound of marmotter (“to mutter”) (from an onomatopoeic base mar- "murmur") and mite (“cat”) (an obsolete word for "cat", probably also onomatopoeic, i.e. imitative of meowing, extant only in the compound chattemite), and thus describing a person being evasive by "murmuring" or "meowing" instead of speaking plainly.

onomatopoeic

onomatopoeic


ROE

ROEs (plural)
RoE (alternative)
R.O.E. (alternative)
R. O. E. (alternative)
R.o.E. (alternative)
R. o. E. (alternative)

(military) Initialism of rule(s) of engagement, a/the rule(s) governing when to fire or return fire.


sit out

en-verb

sit out (third-person singular simple present sits out, present participle sitting out, simple past and past participle sat out)

sits out (present singular third-person)
sitting out (participle present)
sat out (participle past)
sat out (past)

(wrestling) To escape a hold while face down by swinging one's legs around into the sitting position.


scrape

en-noun

scrape (countable and uncountable, plural scrapes)

From Middle English scrapen, from Old Norse skrapa (“to scrape, scratch”) and Old English scrapian (“to scrape, scratch”), both from Proto-Germanic *skrapōną, *skrepaną (“to scrape, scratch”), from Proto-Indo-European *skrebʰ- (“to engrave”).
Cognate with Dutch schrapen (“to scrape”), schrappen (“to strike through; to cancel; to scrap”), schrabben (“to scratch”), German schrappen (“to scrape”), Danish skrabe (“to scrape”), Icelandic skrapa (“to scrape”), Walloon screper (“to scrape”), Latin scribō (“dig with a pen, draw, write”).

cog

In between rounds, he dug a scrape for himself with his entrenching tool.

(military) A shallow pit dug as a hideout.


catch-as-catch-can

In Lancashire and the north of Ireland, the catch-hold or catch-as-catch-can system still finds favour.

1980, Walter Armstrong, Wrestling, page x:

(wrestling) Relating to catch wrestling, a folk style of wrestling with minimal restrictions.


chancery

en-noun

chancery (countable and uncountable, plural chanceries)

/ˈt͡ʃɑːnsəɹɪ/

/ˈt͡ʃænsəɹɪ/

/ˈt͡ʃɑːnsəɹi/

From French chancellerie, from Late Latin cancellaria, from Latin cancellarius, from Latin cancellus (“lattice”) (English chancel), from Latin cancelli (“grating, bars”), from the lattice-work that separated a section of a church or court.
See related chancellor and chancellery, and the more distantly related incarcerate (“put behind bars”), from carcer (“prison”).
The adverbial form is an allusion to the condition of a person involved in the chancery court.

The Chicken himself attributed this punishment to his having had the misfortune to get into Chancery early in the proceedings, when he was severely fibbed by the Larkey one, and heavily grassed.

1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:

(boxing, slang) The position of a boxer's head when under his adversary's arm.


chancery

/ˈt͡ʃɑːnsəɹɪ/

/ˈt͡ʃænsəɹɪ/

/ˈt͡ʃɑːnsəɹi/

[Round] 9. This was a scientific round on both sides; Acton got away well; and also parried some tremendous blows. The latter, however, received a chancery nobber; but he contended every inch of ground till he went down.

1823 May 14, “Sporting Intelligence”, in The Literary Humbug, number 1, page 15, Between Peter Crawley and Dick Acton:

15th round. Chancery. Fibbing. Biggs makes dreadful work with his left. Break away. Rally. Biggs down. Betting still six to four on the gown-boy.

1852, William Makepeace Thackeray, “The Fight at Slaughter House”, in Men's Wives, page 17:

(boxing) With the head of an antagonist under one's arm, so that one can pommel it with the other fist at will.


sniper

Unadapted borrowing from English sniper.

(military) sniper (person using long-range small arms for precise attacks from a concealed position)


Starfighter

(military, aviation) The Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, a jet fighter-interceptor.


anti-aircraft

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antaircraft (alternative)
antiaircraft (alternative)

Special lamps were provided for working during the blackout, and an anti-aircraft gun, manned by the R.A.O.C., was mounted on the coal depot line.

1947 January and February, “Wartime Traffic at Tanfield, L.N.E.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 47:

Truth's ships are clustered above the excavation site. And his infantry has deployed anti-aircraft batteries around the perimeter.

2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, spoken by Miranda Keyes (Justis Bolding), Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: Crow's Nest:


anti-aircraft

anti-aircraft (countable and uncountable, plural anti-aircraft or anti-aircrafts)

anti-aircraft (plural)
anti-aircrafts (plural)
antaircraft (alternative)
antiaircraft (alternative)

I am blacking out—ease the stick forward slightly—the sky is clear again—I turn out over water—reverse turn—there are antiaircraft on the island below—I reverse again—and again.

1944 June 3, Charles A. Lindbergh, The Wartime Journals of Charles A. Lindbergh, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, published 1970, page 839:

(military) An anti-aircraft artillery organization.


enriched uranium

(chemistry, military) Uranium enriched with a higher than normal amount of the fissile isotope U-235; used in nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons.

verrykte uraan

uranium enriched with a higher amount of U-235


scourge

From Middle English scourge (“a lash, whip, scourge; affliction, calamity; person who causes affliction or calamity; shoot of a vine”), and then either:
* from Anglo-Norman scorge, escorge, escurge, or Old French scurge, escourge, escorge, escorgiee, escurge (modern French escourgée (“(archaic) whip made of leather strips”)), either:
** from Vulgar Latin *excoriāta (“strip of hide; a scourge”), from Late Latin excoriāre, the present active infinitive of excoriō (“to strip the skin from, to skin”), from Latin ex- (prefix meaning ‘away; out’) + corium (“skin; hide, leather”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut off, sever; to divide, separate”)); or
** from Latin ex- (intensifying prefix) + corrigia (“a whip”) (from corrigō (“to make right, correct; to reform”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“to righten; to straighten”)); or
* from Middle English scourgen (verb) (see etymology 2).
Cognates
Italian scuriada, scuriata

col

Cognates

He flogged him with a scourge.

Yf they breake myne ordinaunces, and kepe not my commaundementes. I vil vyſet their offences with the rodde, and their ſynnes with ſcourges.

1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg]: [Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?], →OCLC, Psalm lxxxviij:[31–32], folio xxvij, verso, column 1:

My father layd vpon you a heauie yoke, vvhich I vvil make heauier: my father bette you vvith ſcourges, but I vvil beate you vvith ſcorpions.

1609, The Holie Bible, […] (Douay–Rheims Bible), Doway: Lavrence Kellam, […], →OCLC, 2 Paralipomenon 10:11, page 886:

Up to coach then goes / Th' observed Maid, takes both the scourge and reins, / And to her side her handmaid straight attains.

1614–1615, Homer, “The Sixth Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume I, London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC, page 136, lines 111–113:

[H]eaven-born truth, / And moderation fair, vvere the red marks / Of ſuperſtition's ſcourge: […]

a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Winter”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC, page 204, lines 1059–1061:

Mortify / Your flesh, like me, with scourges and with thorns; / Smite, shrink not, spare not.

1833 (date written), Alfred Tennyson, “St. Simeon Stylites”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 61:

Another strange manifestation of collective mental abnormality, though not directly connected with sorcery, was the Brotherhood of Flagellants. […] These men lashed themselves and each other unmercifully with knotted leather scourges until the blood ran, two or three times daily.

1936, Rollo Ahmed, “The Church and Monastic Black Magic”, in The Black Art, London: Senate, Studio Editions, published 1994, →ISBN, page 99:

(weaponry, chiefly historical) A whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails; a lash.


ordre

ordres (plural)
orde (alternative Balearic Southern Western)
olda (alternative)

Inherited from Old Catalan ordre~orde~orden, from Latin ōrdinem. The plural form órdens, with conservation of the Latin /n/, is still used in Valencia and Ibiza. Compare Occitan ordre, French ordre.

(military) order, formation (e.g. of battle)


dinette

(US, military, informal) A submarine's mess hall.


give in

en-verb

give in (third-person singular simple present gives in, present participle giving in, simple past gave in, past participle given in)

gives in (present singular third-person)
giving in (participle present)
gave in (past)
given in (participle past)

(boxing, of a pugilist) To droop the head.


Luftwaffe

Unadapted borrowing from German Luftwaffe (literally “air-weapon”).

ubor

Politicians insist that lockdown under coronavirus is like the experience of wartime. It’s not – except in one way, which I’ll come to. It’s so quiet, for one thing. War is noisy. Sirens, soldiers tramping past singing, Luftwaffe engines in the night sky.

2020 April 19, Neal Ascherson, “After the crisis, a new world won’t emerge as if by magic. We will have to fight for it”, in The Guardian:

Owing to its location at the entrance to the River Tyne, South Shields was of strategic importance in the Second World War, especially to the merchant navy, and the town was heavily hit by a Luftwaffe strike in October 1941.

2021 September 8, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Electric tramways at the heart of our seaside story”, in RAIL, number 939, page 57:

(military) The German air force, especially during the Second World War.

Люфтва́фэ

(military) the German air force, especially during the Second World War


znak

pl-noun

znak m inan (diminutive znaczek, related adjective znakowy)

znaczek (diminutive)
znakowy (adjective)
znak (nominative singular)
znaki (nominative plural)
znaku (genitive singular)
znaków (genitive plural)
znakowi (dative singular)
znakom (dative plural)
znak (accusative singular)
znaki (accusative plural)
znakiem (instrumental singular)
znakami (instrumental plural)
znaku (locative singular)
znakach (locative plural)
znaku (singular vocative)
znaki (plural vocative)

(obsolete, historical, military) banner (military basic organizational and tactical unit, approximately equivalent to the current company)


facing

Red coats were worn by the King's Life Guards and Queen's Life Guards in 1645, while other regiments wore white, blue or grey. Prince Rupert's Footguards wore scarlet, and in Cromwell's army some wore scarlet coats with different facings.

1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 189:

(military, in the plural) The collar and cuffs of a military coat, commonly of a different colour from the rest of the coat.

(military, usually in the plural) The movement of soldiers by turning on their heels to the right, left, or about.


seksi

sèksi (canonical)
seksi-seksi (plural)
séksyen (alternative)
si (alternative)
sie (alternative)

Borrowed from Dutch sectie (“dissection, subdivision”).

bor+

(military) a group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon


ninjutsu

(martial arts) A Japanese martial art that is a collection of techniques originally practiced for Japanese espionage purposes, and includes methods of gathering information, nondetection, avoidance, and misdirection techniques. Used by ninja (忍者).


ninjutsu

Unadapted borrowing from English ninjutsu.

ubor

(espionage, historical, martial arts) ninjutsu (Japanese martial art that is a collection of techniques originally practiced for Japanese espionage purposes, and includes methods of gathering information, nondetection, avoidance, and misdirection techniques)


ninjutsu

(martial arts) ninjutsu (Japanese martial art used for espionage)


ninjutsu

ninjutsu (indefinite nominative singular)
ninjutsus (genitive indefinite singular)
ninjutsun (definite nominative singular)
ninjutsuns (definite genitive singular)

Ninjor besitter övermänskliga färdigheter i lönnkrigföringens konst ninjutsu

Ninjas possess superhuman skills in the art of stealth warfare ninjutsu


ladata

lataan (first-person indicative present singular)
en lataa (first-person indicative negative present singular)
olen ladannut (first-person indicative perfect singular)
en ole ladannut (first-person indicative negative perfect singular)
lataat (indicative present second-person singular)
et lataa (indicative negative present second-person singular)
olet ladannut (indicative perfect second-person singular)
et ole ladannut (indicative negative perfect second-person singular)
lataa (indicative present singular third-person)
ei lataa (indicative negative present singular third-person)
on ladannut (indicative perfect singular third-person)
ei ole ladannut (indicative negative perfect singular third-person)
lataamme (first-person indicative plural present)
emme lataa (first-person indicative negative plural present)
olemme ladanneet (first-person indicative perfect plural)
emme ole ladanneet (first-person indicative negative perfect plural)
lataatte (indicative plural present second-person)
ette lataa (indicative negative plural present second-person)
olette ladanneet (indicative perfect plural second-person)
ette ole ladanneet (indicative negative perfect plural second-person)
lataavat (indicative plural present third-person)
eivät lataa (indicative negative plural present third-person)
ovat ladanneet (indicative perfect plural third-person)
eivät ole ladanneet (indicative negative perfect plural third-person)
ladataan (indicative passive present)
ei ladata (indicative negative passive present)
on ladattu (indicative passive perfect)
ei ole ladattu (indicative negative passive perfect)
latasin (first-person indicative past singular)
en ladannut (first-person indicative negative past singular)
olin ladannut (first-person indicative pluperfect singular)
en ollut ladannut (first-person indicative negative pluperfect singular)
latasit (indicative past second-person singular)
et ladannut (indicative negative past second-person singular)
olit ladannut (indicative pluperfect second-person singular)
et ollut ladannut (indicative negative pluperfect second-person singular)
latasi (indicative past singular third-person)
ei ladannut (indicative negative past singular third-person)
oli ladannut (indicative pluperfect singular third-person)
ei ollut ladannut (indicative negative pluperfect singular third-person)
latasimme (first-person indicative past plural)
emme ladanneet (first-person indicative negative past plural)
olimme ladanneet (first-person indicative pluperfect plural)
emme olleet ladanneet (first-person indicative negative pluperfect plural)
latasitte (indicative past plural second-person)
ette ladanneet (indicative negative past plural second-person)
olitte ladanneet (indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
ette olleet ladanneet (indicative negative pluperfect plural second-person)
latasivat (indicative past plural third-person)
eivät ladanneet (indicative negative past plural third-person)
olivat ladanneet (indicative pluperfect plural third-person)
eivät olleet ladanneet (indicative negative pluperfect plural third-person)
ladattiin (indicative passive past)
ei ladattu (indicative negative passive past)
oli ladattu (indicative passive pluperfect)
ei ollut ladattu (indicative negative passive pluperfect)
lataisin (conditional first-person present singular)
en lataisi (conditional first-person negative present singular)
olisin ladannut (conditional first-person perfect singular)
en olisi ladannut (conditional first-person negative perfect singular)
lataisit (conditional present second-person singular)
et lataisi (conditional negative present second-person singular)
olisit ladannut (conditional perfect second-person singular)
et olisi ladannut (conditional negative perfect second-person singular)
lataisi (conditional present singular third-person)
ei lataisi (conditional negative present singular third-person)
olisi ladannut (conditional perfect singular third-person)
ei olisi ladannut (conditional negative perfect singular third-person)
lataisimme (conditional first-person plural present)
emme lataisi (conditional first-person negative plural present)
olisimme ladanneet (conditional first-person perfect plural)
emme olisi ladanneet (conditional first-person negative perfect plural)
lataisitte (conditional plural present second-person)
ette lataisi (conditional negative plural present second-person)
olisitte ladanneet (conditional perfect plural second-person)
ette olisi ladanneet (conditional negative perfect plural second-person)
lataisivat (conditional plural present third-person)
eivät lataisi (conditional negative plural present third-person)
olisivat ladanneet (conditional perfect plural third-person)
eivät olisi ladanneet (conditional negative perfect plural third-person)
ladattaisiin (conditional passive present)
ei ladattaisi (conditional negative passive present)
olisi ladattu (conditional passive perfect)
ei olisi ladattu (conditional negative passive perfect)
lataa (imperative present second-person singular)
älä lataa (imperative negative present second-person singular)
ladatkoon (imperative present singular third-person)
älköön ladatko (imperative negative present singular third-person)
olkoon ladannut (imperative perfect singular third-person)
älköön olko ladannut (imperative negative perfect singular third-person)
ladatkaamme (first-person imperative plural present)
älkäämme ladatko (first-person imperative negative plural present)
ladatkaa (imperative plural present second-person)
älkää ladatko (imperative negative plural present second-person)
ladatkoot (imperative plural present third-person)
älkööt ladatko (imperative negative plural present third-person)
olkoot ladanneet (imperative perfect plural third-person)
älkööt olko ladanneet (imperative negative perfect plural third-person)
ladattakoon (imperative passive present)
älköön ladattako (imperative negative passive present)
olkoon ladattu (imperative passive perfect)
älköön olko ladattu (imperative negative passive perfect)
ladannen (first-person potential present singular)
en ladanne (first-person negative potential present singular)
lienen ladannut (first-person perfect potential singular)
en liene ladannut (first-person negative perfect potential singular)
ladannet (potential present second-person singular)
et ladanne (negative potential present second-person singular)
lienet ladannut (perfect potential second-person singular)
et liene ladannut (negative perfect potential second-person singular)
ladannee (potential present singular third-person)
ei ladanne (negative potential present singular third-person)
lienee ladannut (perfect potential singular third-person)
ei liene ladannut (negative perfect potential singular third-person)
ladannemme (first-person plural potential present)
emme ladanne (first-person negative plural potential present)
lienemme ladanneet (first-person perfect plural potential)
emme liene ladanneet (first-person negative perfect plural potential)
ladannette (plural potential present second-person)
ette ladanne (negative plural potential present second-person)
lienette ladanneet (perfect plural potential second-person)
ette liene ladanneet (negative perfect plural potential second-person)
ladannevat (plural potential present third-person)
eivät ladanne (negative plural potential present third-person)
lienevät ladanneet (perfect plural potential third-person)
eivät liene ladanneet (negative perfect plural potential third-person)
ladattaneen (passive potential present)
ei ladattane (negative passive potential present)
lienee ladattu (passive perfect potential)
ei liene ladattu (negative passive perfect potential)
ladata (infinitive infinitive-i)
lataava (active participle present)
ladattava (participle passive present)
ladatakseni (first-person possessive singular)
ladataksemme (first-person plural possessive)
ladataksesi (possessive second-person singular)
ladataksenne (plural possessive second-person)
ladatakseen (possessive third-person)
ladataksensa (possessive third-person)
ladannut (infinitive-i-long past)
ladattu (infinitive-i-long past)
ladatessa (inessive second-person)
ladattaessa (inessive second-person)
lataama (agent)
ladatessani (first-person possessive singular)
ladatessamme (first-person plural possessive)
ladatessasi (possessive second-person singular)
ladatessanne (plural possessive second-person)
ladatessaan (possessive third-person)
ladatessansa (possessive third-person)
lataamaton (inessive negative second-person)
ladaten (instructive second-person)
lataamassa (inessive third-person)
lataamasta (elative third-person)
lataamaan (illative third-person)
lataamalla (adessive third-person)
lataamatta (abessive third-person)
lataaman (instructive third-person)
ladattaman (instructive third-person)
lataaminen (fourth-person noun-from-verb)
lataamaisillani (first-person possessive singular)
lataamaisillamme (first-person plural possessive)
lataamaisillasi (possessive second-person singular)
lataamaisillanne (plural possessive second-person)
lataamaisillaan (possessive third-person)
lataamaisillansa (possessive third-person)

[ˈlɑ̝dɑ̝t̪ɑ̝(ʔ)]


honeypot

honeypots (plural)
honey pot (alternative)

From Middle English hwny pott; equivalent to honey + pot.

And the American Embassy in Moscow was infiltrated thanks to “honeypots,” Soviet women who seduced Marine guards.

1989, The Washingtonian, volume 24, page 25:

Perhaps in order to create his own, more controlled environment for debaucherie, he set up a house of prostitution with Gestapo funds, justifying it as a "honeypot" with which to ensnare unsuspecting foreign diplomats.

1996, John H. Waller, The Unseen War in Europe: Espionage and Conspiracy in the Second World War, Random House, →ISBN, page 226:

The NKVD uses attractive ballerinas for honeypot espionage.

2004, Richard C.S. Trahair, Encyclopedia of Cold War Espionage, Spies, and Secret Operations, Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page 353:

(figuratively) Something or someone similarly sweet or enticing, particularly:

(espionage) A spy (typically attractive and female) who uses sex to trap and blackmail a target.


carica

From Latin carricō (“to load, to charge”).


fruit salad

en-noun

fruit salad (countable and uncountable, plural fruit salads)

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(military, slang) Awards worn on a military uniform.


barrage balloon

barrage balloon (plural barrage balloons)

(historical, military) A tethered balloon, attached to the ground with a metal cable, intended to deter low-flying enemy aircraft; used especially in World War II.

sulkupallo

tethered balloon for deterring enemy aircraft


negatory

/ˈnɛɡəˌtɔɹi/

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From Medieval Latin negātōrius (possibly via Middle French negatoire), from Latin negātus.

Ah, you wanna give me a 10-9 on that, Pig Pen?
Negatory, Pig Pen, you're still too close.
Yeah, them hogs is startin' to close up my sinuses.
Mercy sake's, you better back off another ten.

1975, “Convoy”, in C.W. McCall, Chip Davis (lyrics), Black Bear Road, performed by C. W. McCall:

Dolores... was asking if he had crossed the Penobscot River in Medway yet. "That's a negatory on that one, Darlin'."

1991, Rick Hautala, Cold Whisper, page 421:


right wing

Only make the right wing strong.

The wing on the right side of some body, most commonly part of a pair:

(military) The rightward thrusting force of an advancing army.


circus

circus (plural circuses or (rare) circusses or (rare) circi)

circuses (plural)
circusses (plural rare)
circi (plural rare)

From Middle English circus, circo, from Latin circus (“ring, circle”), from Ancient Greek κρίκος (kríkos), κίρκος (kírkos, “ring”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to bend, turn”). Doublet of cirque. Cognate with Old English hring (whence English ring) and Old English hringsetl (“circus”, literally “ring-seat”).

cog

(military, World War II) A code name for bomber attacks with fighter escorts in the day time. The attacks were against short-range targets with the intention of occupying enemy fighters and keeping their fighter units in the area concerned.


breakthrough

breakthroughs (plural)
breakthru (alternative)

From break + through. Compare German Durchbruch and Dutch doorbraak (“breakthrough”, literally “through-break”).

gennembrud

(engineering) penetration of a physical barrier

(military) An advance through and past enemy lines.


FNG

2003: "Two agents in a dark blue sedan were waiting for me. One of them, Jim Heekin, took charge immediately, and also put me in my place. "You must be the FNG," he said as we shook hands." — https://web.archive.org/web/20050403063411/http://www.twbookmark.com/features/jamespatterson/chapters/bigbadwolf5.html

2004: "The other guy is hollering "F-N-G!" He's saying "Your FNG is here!" And I didn’t understand what FNG meant. I soon learned: Fucking New Guy. Or we called them Cherries, meaning brand-new guy in Vietnam." — https://web.archive.org/web/20050313164139/http://www.nyfolklore.org/pubs/voic30-3-4/warstr.html

2009: "The FNG here says that we have too much ammunition." District 9

"So, this isn't the first time new personnel have been improperly briefed on the special schedule for 8 September, but it is the first time it's been fatal. Sampi-5243 have our hands full dealing with the actual breach, and since we can't have random FNGs walking into our little anniversary party a bit of inter-Sectional cooperation would be a big help."

2020 July 24, HarryBlank, “SCP-5243”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 2024-09-02:

(chiefly US, military, slang) Initialism of fucking new guy.


escalade

en-verb

escalade (third-person singular simple present escalades, present participle escalading, simple past and past participle escaladed)

escalades (present singular third-person)
escalading (participle present)
escaladed (participle past)
escaladed (past)

Borrowed from Middle French escalade, from Italian scalata, from scalare (“to climb”), from scala (“ladder”), from Latin scālae (“ladder”). Doublet of scalade.

(military, dated) To scale the walls of a fortification.


tights

→ Japanese: タイツ (taitsu)

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(wrestling) A garment, similar to briefs, worn chiefly by professional wrestlers.


scramble

scramble (third-person singular simple present scrambles, present participle scrambling, simple past and past participle scrambled)

scrambles (present singular third-person)
scrambling (participle present)
scrambled (participle past)
scrambled (past)

Origin uncertain. Perhaps from earlier dialectal scramble, scrammel (“to collect or rake together with the hands”), from scramb (“to pull or scrape together with the hands”) + -le (frequentative suffix) (compare Dutch schrammen (“to graze, brush, scratch”)); or alternatively from a nasalised form of scrabble (“to scrape or scratch quickly”).

lähettää

to quickly enter vehicles and proceed to destination

But on April 13 it 'scrambled' a rake of Mk 2s and dual-braked 'Black 5' 45212 to start its lucrative summer money-spinner two days later.

2024 May 1, “Network News: West Coast Railways runs 'Jacobite' with Mk 1 and Mk 2 combination”, in RAIL, number 1008, page 9:

(transitive, military, also by extension) To quickly deploy (vehicles, usually aircraft) to a destination in response to an alert, usually to intercept an attacking enemy.

As the planes scrambled, four of his veterans went up: Tom Lanphier, Rex Barber, Joe Moore and Jim McLanahan. They had waited with other Lightnings at 30,000 feet and dived on a formation of eleven Zeroes far below, working in pairs.

1969, Burke Davis, Get Yamamoto, page 115:

(intransitive, military) To be quickly deployed in this manner.


scramble

1984, Steve Harris, "Aces High", Iron Maiden, Powerslave.
There goes the siren that warns of the air raid / Then comes the sound of the guns sending flak / Out for the scramble we've got to get airborne / Got to get up for the coming attack.

(military) An emergency defensive air force mission to intercept attacking enemy aircraft.

interception

an emergency defensive air force mission


patrol

en-noun

patrol (countable and uncountable, plural patrols)

From French patrouille, from Old French patrouille, patouille (“a night-watch”, literally “a tramping about”), from patrouiller, patouiller, patoiller (“to paddle or pudder in water, dabble with the feet, begrime, besmear”), from patte, pate (“paw, foot of an animal”), from Vulgar Latin *patta (“paw, foot”), from Frankish *patta (“paw, sole of the foot”), from Proto-Germanic *paþjaną, *paþōną (“to walk, tread, go, step, pace”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pent-, *(s)pat- (“path; to walk”), a variant of Proto-Indo-European *pent-, *pat- (“path; to go”); see find. Cognate with Dutch pad, patte (“paw”), Low German pedden (“to step, tread”), German patschen (“to splash, smack, dabble, waddle”), German Patsche (“a swatter, beater, paw, puddle, mire”). Related to pad, path.

cog

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Four members of the squadron were on patrol.

The watch consisted of twelve convicts—men selected for their good behaviour. Immediately after tattoo had beat they began their patrol. 'No complaint was ever made of them,' remarks Phillip, and they were expressly cautioned to avoid disputes with soldiers or seamen ( many of whom were as great thieves as the convicts themselves).

1899, Louis Becke, Walter Jeffery, Admiral Phillip, Chapter 7:

(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.

دَوْرِيَّة

movement by a small body of troops beyond the line of outposts

After cordial good-bye to our hospitable hostess we motored back to Chaumont where we dined with Colonel Mitchell; and then with another long drive we finally reached home tired but happy at 3.30 in the morning. There staring me in the face was an order directing me to lead my patrol over the lines in the morning at five o'clock, sharp! An hour and a half sleep for an utterly worn out aviator!

1919, Eddie Rickenbacker, “Chapter 7”, in Fighting the Flying Circus:

(military) The guards who go the rounds for observation; a detachment whose duty it is to patrol.


patrol

patrol (nominative singular)
patrole (nominative plural)
patrolu (genitive singular)
patroli (genitive plural)
patrolowi (dative singular)
patrolom (dative plural)
patrol (accusative singular)
patrole (accusative plural)
patrolem (instrumental singular)
patrolami (instrumental plural)
patrolu (locative singular)
patrolach (locative plural)
patrolu (singular vocative)
patrole (plural vocative)

Borrowed from French patrouille, from Middle French patrouille, from Old French patrouille.

(military) patrol (movement by a small body of troops beyond the line of outposts)

(military) patrol (guards who go the rounds for observation)


squadron

squadrons (plural)
to: sqn (abbreviation)

(military, historical, army) A body of cavalry comprising two companies or troops, averaging from one hundred and twenty to two hundred soldiers.

(military) A body of infantrymen made up of several platoons, averaging from eighty to one hundred and fifty men, and led by a captain or a major.

the North Atlantic Squadron

(military, navy) A detachment of vessels employed on any particular service or station, under the command of the senior officer

(military, air force) A tactical air force unit; consists of at least two flights; multiple squadrons make up a group or wing (depending on particular air force).

سرب طيران

air force: tactical unit of at least two flights

(US, military, U.S. Space Force) A spaceforce unit; multiple squadrons make up an operations delta or a support garrison.


salute

Borrowed from Latin salūtō (“to greet; to wish health to”), from salūs (“greeting, good health”), related to salvus (“safe”).

bor

(military, nautical) A discharge of cannon or similar arms, as a mark of honour or respect.


parade

en-noun

parade (countable and uncountable, plural parades)

parades (plural)
Pde (alternative)
parad (alternative)

→ Hindi: परैड (paraiḍ)

→ Urdu: پریڈ (paraiḍ)

From French parade (“an ostentatious display, a military display”), from parer (“to beautify, prepare, take pride in”) + -ade probably under influence from earlier Italian parata (“preparation, a military parade, an ostentatious display”) and Latin magnō parātū (“with great preparation”). Various senses similarly influenced by earlier French and Italian uses. Doublet of pare.

der

There is left round about the circuit of the whole quarter, a parallell on all sides some 200, or 250 foote betweene the front of the quarter and the trench, called an Alarme Place, for the souldiers to draw out into Armes, into Parade, or when any Alarme or commotion happens...

1642, Henry Hexham, The Principles of Art Military, volume II, page 31:

And from thir Ivorie Port the Cherubim
Forth issuing at th’accustomd hour stood armd
To thir night watches in warlike Parade,
When Gabriel to his next in power thus spake...

1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 779-782:

See how the Flow’rs, as at Parade,
Under their Colours stand displaid:
Each Regiment in order grows,
That of the Tulip Pinke and Rose.

1681, Andrew Marvell, “Upon Appleton House...”, Miscellaneous Poems, p. 87, St. 39

The next night the soldiers began teaching the girls to dance... Claude saw that a good deal was going on, and he lectured his men at parade. But he realized that he might as well scold at the sparrows.

1922, Willa Cather, chapter 17, in One of Ours:

Verrall... seldom put on his uniform for morning parade, not thinking it necessary with mere Military Policemen.

1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Ch. 18”, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:

A military parade is really a kind of ritual dance, something like a ballet, expressing a certain philosophy of life. The goose-step, for instance, is one of the most horrible sights in the world, far more terrifying than a dive-bomber. It is simply an affirmation of naked power; contained in it, quite consciously and intentionally, is the vision of a boot crashing down on a face. Its ugliness is part of its essence...

1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, Pt. I:

An organized display of a group of people, particularly

(military) Synonym of military parade: A show of troops, an assembly of troops as a show of force, to receive orders, or especially for inspection at set times.

military parade

Parade, is a Military word, signifying the Place where Troops usually draw together, in order to mount the Guards, or for any other Service.

1704, John Harris, Lexicon Technicum, Vol. I, s.v:

When Barracks are occupied by Troops, the Yards and Parades are to be swept, rolled, and kept clean by them.

1844, The Queen's Regulations & Orders for the Army, page 240:

A place reserved for such displays, particularly

(military, now uncommon) Synonym of parade ground: A place specially designated for such displays or for practicing close-order drills.

parade ground

The Commanding Officer is then to direct the Parade to Order Arms.

1844, The Queen's Regulations & Orders for the Army, page 260:

The people who make up such a display, particularly

(military, now uncommon) The body of soldiers thus assembled.


parade

paradê (canonical)
parade-parade (plural)

From Dutch parade, from French parade (“show, display, parade, parry, formerly also a halt on horseback”), from Spanish parada (“a halt, stop, pause, a parade”), from parar (“to halt, stop, get ready, prepare”), from Latin parare (“to prepare; to halt, stop, prevent, guard against, etc., dress, trim, adorn”).

(military) an assembling of troops for inspection or to receive orders


parade

parade m (definite singular paraden, indefinite plural parader, definite plural paradene)

paraden (definite singular)
parader (indefinite plural)
paradene (definite plural)

Borrowed from French parade (“show, display, parade, parry, formerly also a halt on horseback”), from Spanish parada (“a halt, stop, pause, a parade”), from parar (“to halt, stop, get ready, prepare”), from Latin parare (“to prepare, in Medieval Latin and Rom. also to halt, stop, prevent, guard against, etc., also dress, trim, adorn”).

(military) line-up, especially on solemn occasions

(military) a troop department that meets for inspection or a specific service

line-up, especially on solemn occasions
parade uniform

å få parade

(military) punishment attendance at school or military camp

en flott militær flaggparade

(sports) movement of the weapon to ward off the opponent's chops or bumps

(boxing or wrestling) a movement to fend off the opponent's blows


Mine

Mine (genitive)
Minen (plural)
Mine (nominative singular)
Minen (definite nominative plural)
Mine (genitive singular)
Minen (definite genitive plural)
Mine (dative singular)
Minen (dative definite plural)
Mine (accusative singular)
Minen (accusative definite plural)


Adjutant

de-noun

Adjutant m (weak, genitive Adjutanten, plural Adjutanten, feminine Adjutantin)

Adjutanten (genitive)
Adjutanten (plural)
Adjutantin (feminine)
Adjutant (nominative singular)
Adjutanten (definite nominative plural)
Adjutanten (genitive singular)
Adjutanten (definite genitive plural)
Adjutanten (dative singular)
Adjutanten (dative definite plural)
Adjutanten (accusative singular)
Adjutanten (accusative definite plural)

17th century, from Spanish ayudante, in part through French adjutant.


Adjutant

lb-noun

Adjutant m (plural Adjutanten, feminine Adjutantin)

Adjutanten (plural)
Adjutantin (feminine)


Angel

Angel (genitive)
Angeln (plural)
Angel (nominative singular)
Angeln (definite nominative plural)
Angel (genitive singular)
Angeln (definite genitive plural)
Angel (dative singular)
Angeln (dative definite plural)
Angel (accusative singular)
Angeln (accusative definite plural)

From Middle High German angel, from Old High German angul, from Proto-Germanic *angulō, *angô, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enk- (“something bent, hook”). Compare Dutch angel, hengel, English angle.


Atlas

en-proper noun

Atlas (countable and uncountable, plural Atlases)

From Latin Ā̆tlās, from Ancient Greek Ἄτλας (Átlas), either from ἁ- (ha-, copulative prefix) + Proto-Indo-European *telh₂- (“bear, undergo, endure”) or of Pre-Greek origin.

der

(astronautics, military, US) An SM-65, an early ICBM, soon developed into a long-lived orbital launch vehicle series.


Atlas

(astronautics, military, US) A particular model or individual specimen of the Atlas missile and launch vehicle line.


Aurora

/ʔaʊ̯ˈɾo.ɾɐ/

Aurora (disambiguation)
Gérard de Lairesse
Manuel Quezon

Ultimately from Latin Aurōra. The Philippine placenames were named after First Lady Aurora Quezon, the wife of Pres. Manuel Quezon, the 2nd president of the Philippines.

(naval) the Russian cruiser Aurora, a cruiser of Soviet Navy.


Basis

Basis (genitive)
Basen (plural)
Basis (nominative singular)
Basen (definite nominative plural)
Basis (genitive singular)
Basen (definite genitive plural)
Basis (dative singular)
Basen (dative definite plural)
Basis (accusative singular)
Basen (accusative definite plural)


Beast

Plebes spend their first summer at Cadet Basic Training — Beast Barracks — where they get soldierized.

2014, David Lipsky, Absolutely American: Four Years at West Point, page 8:

I was able to keep up with the herd and evade the Beast. Cadet Basic Training ended with a rigorous twenty four-hour exercise that included a twelve-mile, rite-of-passage road march to West Point […]

2019, Conrad Taylor, PATH to FREEDOM: My Story of Perseverance:

(US, military, slang) A cadet's basic training at West Point.


Charge

de-noun

Charge f (genitive Charge, plural Chargen)

Charge (genitive)
Chargen (plural)
Charge (nominative singular)
Chargen (definite nominative plural)
Charge (genitive singular)
Chargen (definite genitive plural)
Charge (dative singular)
Chargen (dative definite plural)
Charge (accusative singular)
Chargen (accusative definite plural)


Division

Division f (genitive Division, plural Divisionen)

Division (genitive)
Divisionen (plural)
Division (nominative singular)
Divisionen (definite nominative plural)
Division (genitive singular)
Divisionen (definite genitive plural)
Division (dative singular)
Divisionen (dative definite plural)
Division (accusative singular)
Divisionen (accusative definite plural)

(military) division (military formation)


Doc

Doc was awarded a Navy Cross after she ran through a minefield to get to an injured marine.

(slang, United States military) A common form of address for combat medics, especially naval hospital corpsmen.


Fred

(military, slang) The Lockheed C-5 Galaxy, a military transport aircraft widely used by USAF aircrews.


General

General m (strong, genitive Generales or Generals, plural Generäle or Generale, feminine Generälin or Generalin)

Generales (genitive)
Generals (genitive)
Generäle (plural)
Generale (plural)
Generälin (feminine)
Generalin (feminine)
General (nominative singular)
Generäle (definite nominative plural)
Generale (definite nominative plural)
Generales (genitive singular)
Generals (genitive singular)
Generäle (definite genitive plural)
Generale (definite genitive plural)
General (dative singular)
Generale (dative singular)
Generälen (dative definite plural)
Generalen (dative definite plural)
General (accusative singular)
Generäle (accusative definite plural)
Generale (accusative definite plural)

→ Bulgarian: генера́л (generál)

→ Russian: генера́л (generál) (see there for further descendants)

→ Serbo-Croatian: general, генерал

→ Slovene: general

→ Swedish: general
→ Finnish: kenraali

/ˌɡɛ.nəˈʁaːl/

Partly via Middle High German general, partly via French général, from Latin generālis.

(military) general (officer in any general rank)

(military) general (officer in a specific general rank, usually the highest)


Genie

Genie n (strong, genitive Genies, no plural)

Genies (genitive)
Genie (nominative singular)
Genies (genitive singular)
Genie (dative singular)
Genie (accusative singular)


Grey

(UK, military, historical, chiefly in the plural) A member of the Royal Scots Greys, a cavalry regiment of the British Army from 1707 to 1971.


Hummer

"The vehicle is called the 'Hummer,' a contrived abbreviation of its official designation, 'High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle.'"

1985, Andy Rooney, Pieces of my Mind, →ISBN, page 38:

"The Hummer, a clumsy, elongated vehicle the Army intended as a replacement for the hardy Jeep, developed so many problems it became known as the Bummer."

1985, James Coates, Michael Kilian, Heavy Losses: The Dangerous Decline of American Defense, →ISBN, page 25:

"He made a point of not taking federal money for the district -- though by 1986 he was bragging about landing an Army contract to build the Hummer vehicle for a South Bend company."

1987, Michael Barone, Grant Ujifusa, The Almanac of American Politics, 1988, →ISBN, page 403:

"A Hummer can carry four people."

1994, World Book Inc., “Jeep”, in World Book Encyclopedia, vol. J, →ISBN, page 25:

(military, slang) The HMMWV or Humvee, a US Army vehicle which replaced the Jeep.


Humvee

Derived from the attempt to pronounce the acronym HMMWV: The 'High Mobility Multi-purpose Wheeled Vehicle.'

We went out into the streets of Zafaraniya, travelling in the usual two-Humvee convoy, complete with gunners.

Stores, dealerships, galleries struggled to satisfy the skyrocketing demand for ever more recherché produce: limited-edition olive oils, three-hundred-dollar corkscrews, customized Humvees, the latest anti-virus software, escort services featuring contortionists and twins, video installations, outsider art, featherlight shawls made from the chin-fluff of extinct mountain goats.

2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 3:

(US, military) A diesel-powered, four-wheel drive tactical military vehicle that can carry a wide variety of military hardware.


John

Johns (plural)
Jon (alternative)
Joh. (alternative abbreviation rare)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-John.wav

From Middle English John, Johan, Johannes, from Anglo-Norman Jehan, Johan, and also Old English Iohannes, both from Late Latin Iōhannēs, variant of Latin Iōannēs, from Koine Greek Ἰωάννης (Iōánnēs), from Biblical Hebrew יוֹחָנָן (Yôḥānān), perhaps contracted from a former יְהוֹחָנָן (Yəhōḥānān, “God is gracious”).
Doublet of Jack, Jon, Johan, Johann, Johannes, Jean, Sean, Shane, Shaun, Ian, Ivan, Evan, Juan, Giovanni, and Yahya.

doublet

I and the other "Johns," as I soon discovered all new-comers at Sandhurst were, and are still, styled, although at the time I was unconscious of it, managed to troop in after the A company, but although not two minutes after them, found all the different messes already seated and hard at work.

To avoid bullying, first-year “Johns” (from Johnny Raw) “fagged” for senior classmen known as “Regs.” Fagging included making beds, running messages, and smuggling contraband.

(UK, military, slang) A new recruit at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.


Judoka

de-noun

Judoka m (strong, genitive Judokas or Judoka, plural Judokas or Judoka)

Judokas (genitive)
Judoka (genitive)
Judokas (plural)
Judoka (plural)


Legion

(US, military) Ellipsis of American Legion.


Maxim

Maxims (plural)
Maxim gun (alternative)
maxim gun (alternative)
maxim (alternative)

* (machine guns): After the inventor Sir Hiram Maxim (1840-1916).

Again we went on, and climbed the false immensity of another ridge, when several rifles and a maxim opened upon us, and very close they were.

1928, Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War, Penguin, published 2010, page 104:

(firearms) The Maxim gun, a British machine gun of various calibres used by the British army from 1889 until World War I.

(firearms) Any machine gun that derives from the design pattern of Maxim's patented design

(firearms, informal, obsolete) A machine gun


Operation

Operation f (genitive Operation, plural Operationen)

Operation (genitive)
Operationen (plural)
Operation (nominative singular)
Operationen (definite nominative plural)
Operation (genitive singular)
Operationen (definite genitive plural)
Operation (dative singular)
Operationen (dative definite plural)
Operation (accusative singular)
Operationen (accusative definite plural)

(surgery, military, mathematics, computer science) operation


P

en-noun

P (countable and uncountable, plural Ps)

(US, military, aviation) Initialism of patrol (“a patrol aircraft, a patroller”).


PH

helicopter carrier
helicopter carrier#English

(military, nautical, aviation) CVH: initialism of porte-hélicoptère: helicopter carrier


PK

prajurit karier
prajurit karier#Indonesian

(military) initialism of prajurit karier


Parole

de-noun

Parole f (genitive Parole, plural Parolen)

Parole (genitive)
Parolen (plural)
Parole (nominative singular)
Parolen (definite nominative plural)
Parole (genitive singular)
Parolen (definite genitive plural)
Parole (dative singular)
Parolen (dative definite plural)
Parole (accusative singular)
Parolen (accusative definite plural)


Patriot

(US, military) A surface-to-air missile system.


Pike

Pike (genitive)
Piken (plural)
Pike (nominative singular)
Piken (definite nominative plural)
Pike (genitive singular)
Piken (definite genitive plural)
Pike (dative singular)
Piken (dative definite plural)
Pike (accusative singular)
Piken (accusative definite plural)

From Middle High German pieke, from Middle Dutch pike, from Old Dutch *pīk, from Proto-West Germanic *pīk. Already in Dutch the word was influenced by French pic (“tip”). Another influence is German Picke (“pick, pickaxe”), from picken. The precise relation between all of these words is uncertain.


Pip

An allusion to the newspaper cartoon strip Pip, Squeak and Wilfred.

(UK, military, World War I, slang) The 1914 Star or 1914–15 Star medal.


Regiment

Regiment n (strong, genitive Regiments or Regimentes, plural Regimenter or Regimente)

Regiments (genitive)
Regimentes (genitive)
Regimenter (plural)
Regimente (plural)
Regiment (nominative singular)
Regimenter (definite nominative plural)
Regimente (definite nominative plural)
Regiments (genitive singular)
Regimentes (genitive singular)
Regimenter (definite genitive plural)
Regimente (definite genitive plural)
Regiment (dative singular)
Regimente (dative singular)
Regimentern (dative definite plural)
Regimenten (dative definite plural)
Regiment (accusative singular)
Regimenter (accusative definite plural)
Regimente (accusative definite plural)


Salve

Salve (genitive)
Salven (plural)
Salve (nominative singular)
Salven (definite nominative plural)
Salve (genitive singular)
Salven (definite genitive plural)
Salve (dative singular)
Salven (dative definite plural)
Salve (accusative singular)
Salven (accusative definite plural)

→ Russian: залп (zalp)

→ Ukrainian: залп (zalp)

(military) salvo (simultaneous discharge of artillery or firearms including the firing of guns either to hit a target or to perform a salute)


Sold

Sold m (strong, genitive Soldes or Solds, plural Solde)

Soldes (genitive)
Solds (genitive)
Solde (plural)
Sold (nominative singular)
Solde (definite nominative plural)
Soldes (genitive singular)
Solds (genitive singular)
Solde (definite genitive plural)
Sold (dative singular)
Solde (dative singular)
Solden (dative definite plural)
Sold (accusative singular)
Solde (accusative definite plural)

From Middle High German solt, from Old French solt, from Latin solidus (“a Roman gold coin”).

Schon am Zahltag hatte der junge Husarenkorporal seinen ganzen Wochensold versoffen.

Already on payday the young hussar corporal had spent his entire weekly pay on drink.

(military, loosely or historical) any pay or salary of a soldier

(military, Germany) the daily basic pay of a soldier who serves less than two years, including (until 2011) conscripts as well as those rendering the substitute service (Zivildienst)


Tank

Tank m (strong, genitive Tanks or (rare) Tankes, plural Tanks or (very rare) Tanke)

Tanks (genitive)
Tankes (genitive rare)
Tanks (plural)
Tanke (plural rare)
Tank (nominative singular)
Tanks (definite nominative plural)
Tanke (definite nominative plural rare)
Tanks (genitive singular)
Tankes (genitive rare singular)
Tanks (definite genitive plural)
Tanke (definite genitive plural rare)
Tank (dative singular)
Tanke (dative rare singular)
Tanks (dative definite plural)
Tanken (dative definite plural rare)
Tank (accusative singular)
Tanks (accusative definite plural)
Tanke (accusative definite plural rare)

Einmal, nachts, sahen sie ein Feuer / Da gingen sie nicht hin. / Einmal rollten drei Tanks vorbei / Da waren Menschen drin.

1942, Bertolt Brecht, Kinderkreuzzug 1939:

(military, archaic) tank (armoured fighting vehicle)


Tomahawk

U.S. Navy surface ships launching Tomahawks against Chinese targets would thus have to approach within China's antiship-missile perimeter to bring their missiles in range (more on this in chapter 4).

2022, Robert J Haddick, Fire on the Water: China, America, and the Future of the Pacific, second edition, Naval Institute Press, →ISBN, page 69:

(military) The BGM-109 Tomahawk Land Attack Missile (TLAM), a long-range, all-weather, subsonic cruise missile with stubby wings, which can be launched from a ship or submarine.


Torpedo

Torpedo m (strong, genitive Torpedos, plural Torpedos)

Torpedos (genitive)
Torpedos (plural)
Torpedo (nominative singular)
Torpedos (definite nominative plural)
Torpedos (genitive singular)
Torpedos (definite genitive plural)
Torpedo (dative singular)
Torpedos (dative definite plural)
Torpedo (accusative singular)
Torpedos (accusative definite plural)

Borrowed from English torpedo, from Latin.


U

en-adj

U (not generally comparable, comparative Uer, superlative Uest)

An abbreviation of a word or term beginning with the letter U. Adjective sense 1 (“characteristic of the upper classes”) was coined by British linguist Alan S. C. Ross (1907–1980) in a 1954 article, and popularized by the English journalist and writer Nancy Mitford (1904–1973).

(not comparable, education, espionage) Usually in parentheses: abbreviation of unclassified.


Wall

de-noun

Wall m (strong, genitive Walles or Walls, plural Wälle)

Walles (genitive)
Walls (genitive)
Wälle (plural)
Wall (nominative singular)
Wälle (definite nominative plural)
Walles (genitive singular)
Walls (genitive singular)
Wälle (definite genitive plural)
Wall (dative singular)
Walle (dative singular)
Wällen (dative definite plural)
Wall (accusative singular)
Wälle (accusative definite plural)

From Middle High German [Term?], from Latin vallum. Cognate with English wall.


mo

mo m (definite singular moen, indefinite plural moer, definite plural moene)

moen (definite singular)
moer (indefinite plural)
moene (definite plural)


mo

mo m (definite singular moen, indefinite plural moar, definite plural moane)

moen (definite singular)
moar (indefinite plural)
moane (definite plural)

From Old Norse mór (“moor”), from Proto-Germanic *mōraz.


RAAF

Royal Australian Air Force
w:Royal Australian Air Force

(Australia, military, aviation) Initialism of Royal Australian Air Force.


rota

rota (nominative singular)
rotas (nominative plural)
rotas (genitive singular)
rotu (genitive plural)
rotai (dative singular)
rotām (dative plural)
rotu (accusative singular)
rotas (accusative plural)
rotu (instrumental singular)
rotām (instrumental plural)
rotā (locative singular)
rotās (locative plural)
rota (singular vocative)
rotas (plural vocative)