What's the difference between battalion and regiment?

Battalion


Definition:

  • (n.) A body of troops; esp. a body of troops or an army in battle array.
  • (n.) A regiment, or two or more companies of a regiment, esp. when assembled for drill or battle.
  • (v. t.) To form into battalions.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The huge new TV money first arrived in 1992 after Rupert Murdoch’s executives realised that only football could bring the battalions of addicted subscribers they needed to grow Sky TV.
  • (2) In a summit in Paris last week, the west African nations of Cameroon, Chad and Niger agreed to each contribute a battalion to form a border patrol troop based around the arid Sahelian belt, large swaths of which have fallen under the control of Islamist terrorists in recent years.
  • (3) Most are members of existing rebel battalions or groups who decided to come under the Liwa al-Ummah umbrella; others signed up as individuals ...
  • (4) Speaking outside Battlesbury barracks in Warminster, Wiltshire, Stenning said: "Barely 48 hours ago, we heard the terrible news that six soldiers from The 3rd Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment were declared missing, believed killed, after their Warrior armoured vehicle was caught in an explosion in southern Afghanistan.
  • (5) The battalion's symbol is reminiscent of the Nazi Wolfsangel , though the battalion claims it is in fact meant to be the letters N and I crossed over each other, standing for "national idea".
  • (6) While they were in Donetsk, Bolotkhanov and his men released a video saying they had come to Donetsk to find Isa Munayev , a 1990s Chechen commander who had since lived as a refugee in Denmark and then arrived in Ukraine to found the Dudayev battalion.
  • (7) By 5pm, as the sun began to set, the army of police that had once occupied the city centre in their battalions and stood on the Nile bridges, had been diminished.
  • (8) The Russian defence ministry said on Monday that a motorised defence infantry battalion stationed near the Ukrainian border for "training" for a month had begun the journey back to its base.
  • (9) We are redeploying 25km [outside Juba] but even if it is one battalion remaining and again they clash, is it really difficult to come back to Juba?” While the cantonment of troops may be a first step to end fighting, fundamental reforms of the security sector are needed to professionalise an army notorious for lack of discipline, human rights abuses and tribalism.
  • (10) Results indicated the following: 1) at some point during the exercises, everyone became sleep deprived; 2) the participants who received the most rest of the group were the enlisted headquarters personnel and the pilots; 3) the soldiers who received the least amount of sleep were the commander of the battalion and the maintenance personnel.
  • (11) Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, a former battalion commander in the Khmer Rouge, who has ruled his country for 30 years, will visit Australia in December.
  • (12) A former head of one of Kenya's paratroop battalions, he was appointed by Kibaki as commissioner of police in 2004 after more than 25 years in the military, the first ever commissioner appointed from outside the force.
  • (13) The soldier, the 294th to have died in Afghanistan since 2001, was from the 2nd Battalion The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment, attached to 1st Battalion The Mercian Regiment, the MoD said.
  • (14) The weapons market, a long row of one-room shops selling enough small and medium arms to equip a small battalion, marked the end of the state’s nominal control.
  • (15) The proliferation of these battalions also poses important questions for the postwar settlement, and Poroshenko will need to find a way to integrate the groups either into the army or back into civilian life when the conflict in the east is over.
  • (16) The retired appeal court judge's report, which runs to three volumes, found that troops from 1st Battalion Queen's Lancashire Regiment inflicted "gratuitous" violence on a group of 10 Iraqi civilians, who were kicked and hit in turn, "causing them to emit groans and other noises and thereby playing them like musical instruments".
  • (17) His huge entourage includes a battalion of security guards and female dining companions.
  • (18) If you capture one of them, it’s too risky to bring them back across the lines, so you just give them time to say their prayers, and the last words they will hear on this earth are ‘Glory to Ukraine!’” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Apti Bolotkhanov, commander of the ‘Death Battalion’ of Chechens who fought on the side of the pro-Russian rebels.
  • (19) Luke Farmer, also 19, had only completed his training nine months earlier when he died in an explosion in January serving with 3rd Battalion the Rifles near Sangin.
  • (20) Photograph: Quique Kierszenbaum SERGEANT NADAV BIGELMAN 2007-10, Nachal Brigade, 50th Battalion, Hebron During patrols inside the casbah we'd do many "mappings".

Regiment


Definition:

  • (n.) Government; mode of ruling; rule; authority; regimen.
  • (n.) A region or district governed.
  • (n.) A body of men, either horse, foot, or artillery, commanded by a colonel, and consisting of a number of companies, usually ten.
  • (v. t.) To form into a regiment or into regiments.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The overall control of blood glucose before and two hrs meals was better with soluble insulin regiment than with the Lente insulin regimen.
  • (2) Speaking outside Battlesbury barracks in Warminster, Wiltshire, Stenning said: "Barely 48 hours ago, we heard the terrible news that six soldiers from The 3rd Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment were declared missing, believed killed, after their Warrior armoured vehicle was caught in an explosion in southern Afghanistan.
  • (3) Eyewitnesses said the driver was wearing a black beret, indicating that he was not a member of the Parachute Regiment.
  • (4) The RSC’s Erica Whyman stages a story inspired by a local man, the Royal Warwickshire Regiment’s Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, who was known as the cartoonist of the trenches and survived the war to work at the original Shakespeare Memorial theatre.
  • (5) Dan Jarvis is Labour MP for Barnsley Central and a former officer in the Parachute Regiment
  • (6) A Royal Military police officer who was attached to the Rifles regiment, Pritchard had been put on duty at an observation post in the Sangin area of Helmand province, where the Taliban had fought hard for control.
  • (7) Withheld documents · Sale of arms to Saudi Arabia · Special maritime surveillance operations · An improved kiloton bomb · Production of chemical weapons · Chemical warfare policy · Operations Grape and Tiara · Medical aspects of interrogation · Special operations and how they affect deception · Atomic energy: information received from US under military agreement · Nuclear warheads in the far east · Project R1 · SAS regiment: Borneo operations
  • (8) These observations suggest that steroid-inclusive medication regiments can affect cognitive performance.
  • (9) While focusing criticism on a few members of the regiment – particularly Corporal Donald Payne, Lieutenant Craig Rodgers and Lieutenant Colonel Jorge Mendonca – the report also passes scathing comment on the role of the unit's regimental medical officer, Dr Derek Keilloh, and its padre, Father Peter Madden.
  • (10) Patients whose disease responded to the high-single-dose, alternate-day prednisone regiment were indistinguishable from nonresponders by the immunological responses measured.
  • (11) The loss of 12 Scottish regiments since 1957 had loosened military ties," he said.
  • (12) The soldier, the 294th to have died in Afghanistan since 2001, was from the 2nd Battalion The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment, attached to 1st Battalion The Mercian Regiment, the MoD said.
  • (13) As assistant bacteriologist and ex-POW he joined the British regimental hospital in Bangkok.
  • (14) Animals fed on the LP diet had elevated plasma concentrations of both total and free triiodothyronine (T3) concentrations whereas those on the ER regiment showed values below those of controls.
  • (15) The retired appeal court judge's report, which runs to three volumes, found that troops from 1st Battalion Queen's Lancashire Regiment inflicted "gratuitous" violence on a group of 10 Iraqi civilians, who were kicked and hit in turn, "causing them to emit groans and other noises and thereby playing them like musical instruments".
  • (16) 99 patients were treated with combination chemotherapy (MOPP or equivalent regiments) with or without additional irradiation of some involved areas.
  • (17) Such clinical characteristics and functional parameters as: duration of "dishabituation" from assisted breathing, need of re-intubation, changes in oxygen consumption etc, caused by change in the ventilatory regiment, were evaluated and analyzed.
  • (18) I find it very embarrassing when people ask what they should call me – then, I stumble.” Although he had to start learning the management of the family estates instead of taking up an army career as intended, Grosvenor did serve with the Territorials, in the Queen’s Own Yeomanry cavalry regiment, rising through the ranks, attending the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst and eventually becoming a major-general and assistant chief of the defence staff with responsibility for the army reserves and cadets.
  • (19) Late Royal Regiment of Artillery Officer (OBE) Lt Col Timothy John Simon Allen.
  • (20) The Queen's Lancashire Regiment is more than 300 years old and has won more battle honours than any other infantry regiment.