What's the difference between bayonet and dagger?

Bayonet


Definition:

  • (n.) A pointed instrument of the dagger kind fitted on the muzzle of a musket or rifle, so as to give the soldier increased means of offense and defense.
  • (n.) A pin which plays in and out of holes made to receive it, and which thus serves to engage or disengage parts of the machinery.
  • (v. t.) To stab with a bayonet.
  • (v. t.) To compel or drive by the bayonet.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I remember cycling through London at 6am and I had this vision of Albert [Joey's human friend] meeting an incredibly injured horse and putting it down on the battlefield with his bayonet.
  • (2) In 1819, the area of Manchester then known as St Peter's Field was the scene of a watershed moment in the struggle for universal suffrage, when around 15 protesters were variously bayoneted, shot and trampled to death in the so-called Peterloo Massacre .
  • (3) Breivik told the court he planned to handcuff her, before "decapitating" her using a bayonet on his rifle and then filming the execution on an iPhone.
  • (4) The Republicans opened up a new line of attack Wednesday accusing Barack Obama of trivialising the election by talking about Big Bird, binders and bayonets because he could not run on his first-term record.
  • (5) In addition to these dystrophies due to abnormal formation of the matrix, there are other malformations, bayonet hair and the Pohl-Beau line, which are secondary to temporary disturbances in other volumetric control parameters.
  • (6) One young girl said hot coals had been dropped on her stomach because her father was suspected of supporting the OLF, while a teacher described how he was stabbed in the eye with a bayonet after he refused to teach “propaganda about the ruling party” to students.
  • (7) From the 18th-century continental wars to the imperial battles, the world conflicts, and the postcolonial fighting of our own times, the British have prided themselves on being first with the bayonet.
  • (8) The bayonet issue has been disputed, however, with many soldiers posting pictures of their bayonets online.
  • (9) The forensic medical expertise revealed that they were first wounded by rifle fire, then tortured and finally executed by hand axes and bayonets.
  • (10) When the British attacked Egypt in 1956, he tried to haul down the union flag at the British consulate in Dhaka, and was bayoneted by police: a wound he still suffers.
  • (11) The bayonet and grenades were taken from him and he was handcuffed.
  • (12) We call this, "transverse bayonet dislocation of the proximal interphalangeal joint."
  • (13) Spines around the oral sucker are bayonet-shaped, and those on the rest part of the body surface are basically chisel-shaped.
  • (14) Crook followed his colleagues after arming himself with a pair of grenades and a bayonet.
  • (15) Jeremy Paxman did not take kindly to Jon Snow's suggestion that he wear a tie "Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets, because the nature of our military's changed.
  • (16) A series of modified gyratory bayonets instruments is described.
  • (17) This duct should not be considered inert, as part of a theoretical bayonet-like pathway which is more topographical than functional: the buccinator muscle and STENSEN's duct with its valvules and terminal siphons should be considered together as forming the real salivation apparatus.
  • (18) • One of the first acts under Bower's leadership was to disband the investigations team – because, in the words of the then chair Barbara Young, it was being used to "bayonet the wounded on the battlefield".
  • (19) I was guarded by two soldiers with Kalashnikovs and bayonets.
  • (20) The visual test was reproduced by a 7.5-v bayonet lamp and socket.

Dagger


Definition:

  • (n.) A short weapon used for stabbing. This is the general term: cf. Poniard, Stiletto, Bowie knife, Dirk, Misericorde, Anlace.
  • (n.) A mark of reference in the form of a dagger [/]. It is the second in order when more than one reference occurs on a page; -- called also obelisk.
  • (v. t.) To pierce with a dagger; to stab.
  • (n.) A timber placed diagonally in a ship's frame.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His children will get used to a father who wears pants, without a dagger, and who does not pick out their nits in public.
  • (2) Fear of the war between Blairites and Brownites breaking into open riot led to cabinet paralysis, while leadership ambitions warned that he who wields the dagger never wears the crown.
  • (3) Some daggers have already been drawn – François Rebsamen , said the revelations showed the entire idea of "première dame", was obsolete, adding that scrapping of the office of the first lady would be progress for democracy.
  • (4) Ennis had hit a jumper just moments before that cut the Flyers' lead down to one and, as everyone on both sides certainly remembered, hit a dagger of a game-winner against Pittsburgh just last month .
  • (5) The magnificent bronze Beaune Dirk is a princely dagger, but could not have been intended for practical use: the blade was never sharpened, nor the end drilled to attach a wooden hilt.
  • (6) Joey's slap in the face to his parents is certainly transgressive, "a stunning act of sedition and a dagger to Patty's heart".
  • (7) Zhang, who directed House of Flying Daggers and Hero, admitted on Sunday to having had three children with his wife.
  • (8) The pressure dependence of these coefficients shows that the volume of the system decreases upon complex formation and that there is an expansion upon formation of the activated complex (DeltaVdouble dagger is positive).
  • (9) From the values of the slopes of the Arrhenius plots, the energy of activation (E(a)) for each isoenzyme and isoenzyme variant was determined, and the following thermodynamic activation parameters were calculated at 55 degrees C: the free energy of activation (DeltaG(double dagger)), the activation enthalpy (DeltaH(double dagger)) and the activation entropy (DeltaS(double dagger)).
  • (10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Shakespeare Solos: Daniel Mays as Macbeth – ‘Is this a dagger which I see before me?’ “All those shows definitely have a place, but there are a lot of public school actors and writers about at the moment.
  • (11) Last year she narrowly escaped with her life when a female assassin tried to stab her with a traditional dagger known as a jambiya.
  • (12) They ranged from tiny dagger size to elaborate, candelabra-esque weapons with multiple ports.
  • (13) It’s time to wind down cloak-and-dagger efforts to undermine the Cuban regime and try a new approach, the pundits now suggest , presumably as incentive for the Cuban government to loosen its grip on its people.
  • (14) He's part of a Brooklyn film-making collective, Waverley (heraldic crest: dagger, beer, skull and crossbones, neon green background), with whom he has made shorts and TV shows.
  • (15) This month the Dagger Awards, run by the Crime Writers Association, celebrated the work of two French writers at its gala awards event.
  • (16) Both subject groups have difficulties in retrieving words that specify a property relationship to a late acquired stimulus word, as in 'desert-sand', while words that specify an 'is a' relationship with the stimulus word, as in 'dagger-knife', are easily retrieved.
  • (17) The blade of this dagger can be fixed at right angles to the knife-handle, ready for use just as an "American San Francisco Push-Dagger" or an Indian "katar", obviously very dangerous weapons.
  • (18) I just wait until I’ve got a character and I think, why would anybody do that, what is it in their background, what is it in their lives makes them do it?” Rendell won prizes including the Crime Writers’ Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for “sustained excellence in crime writing”, and, as a Labour life peer, helped pass a law preventing girls being sent abroad for female genital mutilation.
  • (19) • This article was amended on 10 February 2016 to clarify ownership of Lawrence’s dagger and robes.
  • (20) He points out his primary school, his father's church, the house where he was brought up, the hospice where he and Sarah worked unpublicised in the summer of 2009, when the country was in recession and would-be assassins in the Labour party were agonising about whether to unsheathe their daggers.