"platoon" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /pləˈtuːn/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-platoon.wav Forms: platoons [plural]
Rhymes: -uːn Etymology: From obsolete French plauton, variant of peloton, from Middle French pelote + -on. Doublet of peloton. Compare pellet. Etymology templates: {{der|en|fr|plauton}} French plauton, {{der|en|frm|pelote}} Middle French pelote, {{doublet|en|peloton}} Doublet of peloton Head templates: {{en-noun}} platoon (plural platoons)
  1. (military) A unit of thirty to forty soldiers typically commanded by a lieutenant and forming part of a company. Categories (topical): Military Translations (unit of 30-40 soldiers): فَصِيلَة عَسْكَرِيَّة (faṣīla ʕaskariyya) [feminine] (Arabic), فَصِيلَة (faṣīla) [feminine] (Arabic), դասակ (dasak) (Armenian), taqım (Azerbaijani), tağım (Azerbaijani), vzvod (Azerbaijani), узво́д (uzvód) [masculine] (Belarusian), পল্টন (polṭon) (Bengali), взвод (vzvod) [masculine] (Bulgarian), (paai⁴) (Chinese Cantonese), 分隊 (Chinese Cantonese), 分队 (alt: fan¹ deoi⁶⁻²) (Chinese Cantonese), (pái) (Chinese Mandarin), 分隊 (Chinese Mandarin), 分队 (fēnduì) (Chinese Mandarin), četa [feminine] (Czech), deling [common-gender] (Danish), plotono (Esperanto), rühm (Estonian), joukkue (Finnish), peloton [masculine] (French), Zug [masculine] (German), Kolonne [feminine] (German), Sanitätszug (english: medical) [masculine] (German), מַחְלָקָה (makhlaká) [feminine] (Hebrew), szakasz (Hungarian), pelotono (Ido), peleton (Indonesian), buíon [feminine, masculine] (Irish), plotone (Italian), 小隊 (shōtai) (alt: しょうたい) (Japanese), взвод (vzvod) (Kazakh), កងអនុសេនាតូច (kɑɑng ʼaʼnuʼ seenaa touc) (Khmer), 소대 (sodae) (alt: 小隊) (Korean), взвод (vzvod) (Kyrgyz), vads [masculine] (Latvian), būrys [masculine] (Lithuanian), вод (vod) [masculine] (Macedonian), чета (četa) [feminine] (Macedonian), platun (Malay), parahūnu (Maori), wāhanga toru o te kamupene (Maori), paratunu (Maori), pluton [masculine] (Polish), pelotão (Portuguese), pluton [neuter] (Romanian), взвод (vzvod) [masculine] (Russian), во̑д [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), vȏd [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), čata [feminine] (Slovak), vod [masculine] (Slovene), pelotón (Spanish), pluton [common-gender] (Swedish), таҳм (tahm) (Tajik), takım (Turkish), чота́ (čotá) [feminine] (Ukrainian), взвод (vzvod) [masculine] (Ukrainian), vzvod (Uzbek), trung đội (Vietnamese), tiểu đội (Vietnamese)
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  2. A group of self-driving vehicles travelling in a close convoy and communicating electronically with each other.
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  3. (education, historical) A group of children in the platoon grouping education system. Tags: historical Categories (topical): Education, Collectives
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Verb

IPA: /pləˈtuːn/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-platoon.wav Forms: platoons [present, singular, third-person], platooning [participle, present], platooned [participle, past], platooned [past]
Rhymes: -uːn Etymology: From obsolete French plauton, variant of peloton, from Middle French pelote + -on. Doublet of peloton. Compare pellet. Etymology templates: {{der|en|fr|plauton}} French plauton, {{der|en|frm|pelote}} Middle French pelote, {{doublet|en|peloton}} Doublet of peloton Head templates: {{en-verb}} platoon (third-person singular simple present platoons, present participle platooning, simple past and past participle platooned)
  1. (baseball) To alternate starts with a teammate of opposite handedness, depending on the handedness of the opposing pitcher Categories (topical): Baseball
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17 25 15 17 Disambiguation of Terms with Vietnamese translations: 10 15 16 28 14 16 Topics: ball-games, baseball, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
  2. (sports) To specialize in a particular position or playing style. Categories (topical): Sports
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  3. Of self-driving vehicles: to travel in a close convoy, each vehicle communicating electronically with the others.
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: platoon system

Inflected forms

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          "code": "ms",
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          "word": "platun"
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          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
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          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
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          "word": "wāhanga toru o te kamupene"
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          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
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          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "vzvod",
          "sense": "unit of 30-40 soldiers",
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          "sense": "unit of 30-40 soldiers",
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          "word": "во̑д"
        },
        {
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          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "unit of 30-40 soldiers",
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          "word": "vȏd"
        },
        {
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      "code": "de",
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      "code": "he",
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      "code": "id",
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      "word": "būrys"
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      "code": "ms",
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      "word": "platun"
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      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "unit of 30-40 soldiers",
      "word": "wāhanga toru o te kamupene"
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      "code": "pt",
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      "code": "sh",
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      "code": "sh",
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      "code": "sk",
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      "code": "es",
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      "code": "tr",
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      "sense": "unit of 30-40 soldiers",
      "word": "takım"
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      "sense": "unit of 30-40 soldiers",
      "word": "trung đội"
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      "code": "vi",
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      "sense": "unit of 30-40 soldiers",
      "word": "tiểu đội"
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          "ref": "2014, The Cedar Rapids Gazette, Greatest Moments in Iowa Hawkeyes Football History:",
          "text": "You must understand the rules of football in 1939. There was no platooning, so each man played both offense and defense.",
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        "(sports) To specialize in a particular position or playing style."
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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