What's the difference between adjutant and assistant?

Adjutant


Definition:

  • (n.) A helper; an assistant.
  • (n.) A regimental staff officer, who assists the colonel, or commanding officer of a garrison or regiment, in the details of regimental and garrison duty.
  • (n.) A species of very large stork (Ciconia argala), a native of India; -- called also the gigantic crane, and by the native name argala. It is noted for its serpent-destroying habits.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ridgway Adjutant General's Corps (Educational and Training Services Branch) Army Reserve.
  • (2) Adjutant General's Corps (Educational and Training Services Branch).
  • (3) Adjutant General’s Corps (Staff and Personnel Support Branch) WO Class 1 Andrew George Johnson.
  • (4) Adjutant General’s Corps (Staff and Personnel Support Branch) Acting Lt Col Alan Francis O’Flanagan.
  • (5) Adjutant General’s Corps (Educational and Training Services Branch) Maj Guy John Nathaniel Mason.
  • (6) In five cases, adjutant endoscopic procedures were performed.
  • (7) Cpl Michael Clark Adjutant General's Corps (Staff and Personnel Support Branch).
  • (8) "It ought to be asked at the start and recorded in documents, particularly because of things like PTSD [post traumatic stress disorder]," said the retired adjutant general.
  • (9) Older priests occasionally found the former adjutant slightly laughable and questioned his assumption that his way to holiness was the only way.
  • (10) I don’t think that is an immediate plan,” he said, “but I think anywhere in the world … I wouldn’t rule anything out.” In an attempt to defend his national security credentials, Walker also spoke of “risk assessments given to me by the FBI and my adjutant general” in his role as governor of Wisconsin .
  • (11) He's right that it is a problem for the Labour party that it is led by two former adjutants of Gordon Brown, one of whom was City minister.
  • (12) Nominally, the intention was for Anthony to perform as a sort of adjutant to the general and as a youthful link between the princes of Astor's court.
  • (13) Late Adjutant General’s Corps (Army Legal Services Branch) Maj Gen John Crackett, TD.
  • (14) Adjutant General’s Corps (Royal Military Police) Acting Maj Douglas Charles Muirhead.
  • (15) Adjutant General’s Corps (Staffand Personnel Support Branch) Lt Col Andrew Martin Hart.
  • (16) Although LAM-B is a common antigen of both mycobacterium tuberculosis and mycobacterium leprae, the low prevalence of leprosy in China makes little influence of the practicability of using this ELISA in epidemiological study and in clinic as a adjutant tool for tuberculosis diagnosis and differential diagnosis.

Assistant


Definition:

  • (a.) Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary.
  • (a.) Of the second grade in the staff of the army; as, an assistant surgeon.
  • (n.) One who, or that which, assists; a helper; an auxiliary; a means of help.
  • (n.) An attendant; one who is present.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We determined whether serological investigations can assist to distinguish between chronic idiopathic autoimmune thrombocytopenia (cAITP) and immune-mediated thrombocytopenia in patients at risk to develop systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE); 82 patients were seen in this institution for the evaluation of immune thrombocytopenia.
  • (2) Periosteal chondroma is an uncommon benign cartilagenous lesion, and its importance lies primarily in its characteristic radiographic and pathologic appearance which should be of assistance in the differential diagnosis of eccentric lesions of bones.
  • (3) Serially sectioned rabbit foliate taste buds were examined with high voltage electron microscopy (HVEM) and computer-assisted, three-dimensional reconstruction.
  • (4) The methodology, in algorithm form, should assist health planners in developing objectives and actions related to the occurrence of selected health status indicators and should be amenable to health care interventions.
  • (5) There were 54 patients who had a family doctor, 38 felt he could assist in aftercare.
  • (6) A neodymium YAG (Nd:YAG) laser was evaluated in a dog ulcer model used in the same manner as is recommended for bleeding patients (power 55 W, divergence angle 4 degrees, with CO2 gas-jet assistance).
  • (7) Following mass disasters and individual deaths, dentists with special training and experience in forensic odontology are frequently called upon to assist in the identification of badly mutilated or decomposed bodies.
  • (8) Two lunches are recoded with John Yates and Andy Hayman, the former assistant commissioners.
  • (9) Cloning of the A-T allele(s) will assist in the early or prenatal diagnosis of A-T and provide a firm basis for determining who, in the general population, carries this gene and is therefore at a high risk of cancer.
  • (10) Four goals, four assists, and constant movement have been a key part of the team’s success.
  • (11) Despite this exposure, none of 255 dentists, hygienists and chairside assistants had the antibody to HIV following an estimated 189 or more exposures.
  • (12) Documents seen by the Guardian show that blood supplies for one fiscal year were paid for by donations from America’s Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) and Britain’s Department for International Development (DfID) – and both countries have imposed economic sanctions against the Syrian government.
  • (13) Nursing staff can assist these clients in a therapeutic way by becoming familiar with the types of issues these clients present and the behaviors they manifest.
  • (14) Although left heart bypass has gained popularity as a powerful technique to assist the severely failed left heart, apparent right heart failure has often developed during the bypass procedure.
  • (15) It is shown that the combined effects of altitude and wind assistance yielded an increment in the length of the jump of about 31 cm, compared to a corresponding jump at sea level under still air conditions.
  • (16) A compensator connected to the section consisting of the pump-main line-operating member and including a pneumatic resistance and a flaxid non-elastic container enables it in combination with the feedback to maintain through the volumetric displacement of the gas, or changing the pump diaphragm position, the stability of the gas volume in the pneumatic transmission element of the assisted circulation apparatus.
  • (17) Restriction site analysis, DNA sequence analysis, and computer-assisted search revealed eight retrotransposon-like elements distributed over a 25 kilobase (kb) mouse Il-6 region.
  • (18) This is what President Carter did when he raised the spectre of terminating US military assistance if Israel did not immediately evacuate Lebanon in September 1977.
  • (19) Experiments have been performed using CO2 laser-assisted microvascular anastomoses, and they demonstrated the following features, in comparison with conventional anastomoses: ease in technique; less time consumption; less tissue inflammation; early wound healing; equivalency of patency rate and inner pressure tolerance; but only about 50 percent of the tensile strength of manual-suture anastomosis.
  • (20) Although the reeler, an autosomal recessive mutant mouse with the abnormality of lamination in the central nervous system, died about 3 weeks of age when fed ordinary laboratory chow, this mouse could grow up normally and prolong its destined, short lifespan to 50 weeks and more when given assistance in taking paste food and water from the weaning period.