What's the difference between brigade and regiment?

Brigade


Definition:

  • (n.) A body of troops, whether cavalry, artillery, infantry, or mixed, consisting of two or more regiments, under the command of a brigadier general.
  • (n.) Any body of persons organized for acting or marching together under authority; as, a fire brigade.
  • (v. t.) To form into a brigade, or into brigades.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We ganged up against the tweed-suited, pipe-smoking brigade.
  • (2) "Monasteries and convents face greater risks than other buildings in terms of fire safety," the article said, adding that many are built with flammable materials and located far away from professional fire brigades.
  • (3) Harati was commander of the Tripoli Brigade during the Libyan revolution.
  • (4) The Sunni side includes ISIS, Jaish al-Islam, JRTN, the 1920s Revolutionary Brigades, and moderate Sunni Arab tribal members.
  • (5) For example, the old-school-tie brigade viewed the prospect of an alliance with the Soviet Union to confront Hitler as almost unthinkable at one time, but in due course had to stomach it.
  • (6) Two weeks ago, the production quotas for all colony brigades was arbitrarily increased by 50 units.
  • (7) Updated at 10.01am BST 9.20am BST UK foreign secretary to announce new support "to help save lives" The UK foreign secretary says he has some news on Syria ... William Hague (@WilliamJHague) Today I will announce details of new UK support to help save lives in # Syria , at 10.30am BST August 10, 2012 Updated at 10.01am BST 9.17am BST Irish-Libyan commander leading Syrian brigade "A soft-spoken Libyan-born Irish citizen named Mahdi al-Harati", is leading the Liwa al-Ummah brigade in Syria, a group he says is separate from the Free Syrian Army, Mary Fitzgerald writes for Foreign Policy.
  • (8) The kidnap and execution of the then Christian Democrat leader Aldo Moro by the Red Brigades , the murderous bomb in Bologna station in 1980 and others in Milan, Brescia and aboard a train were, differently, expressions of what Italians call the “strategy of tension” by the state.
  • (9) Even one victim is too much.” Soldiers from Milovanic’s unit, the Bratunac brigade, took an important role in the mass executions, but he says he was transferred to another front as Srebrenica fell, and was not present in the bloody aftermath.
  • (10) The teams will first be based in Baghdad, primarily at senior-level command centres and then at brigade level, with a focus on assessing what additional support is required by the Iraqi military.
  • (11) This is the first of many reports that will be produced from the in-at-all-costs brigade predicting doom and destruction if we Vote Leave from the same characters who made the same predictions a decade ago about the euro.
  • (12) A mob including members of the paramilitary basij brigades, under the control of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, surged through lines of riot police and broke into the embassy and a separate residential compound, the Qolhak Gardens, in northern Tehran, chanting "Death to England" in scenes reminiscent of the seizure of the US embassy in 1979.
  • (13) It’s already burning and there are people inside,” a woman told the fire brigade dispatcher.
  • (14) Television news reports later said locals armed with clubs had blocked an artillery brigade moving toward Donetsk and forced it to turn around.
  • (15) They include an army specialist, Adam Winfield, whose lawyer has released a Facebook chat between the soldier and his father, Christopher, that suggests many other soldiers in the brigade approved of the killings.
  • (16) He was part of the reconnaissance unit of the 25th armoured brigade, which had been doing most of the fighting in Abyan province in the last year.
  • (17) His shop was destroyed by water damage What destroyed my business completely was not the fire [next door] but the gallons and gallons of water which the fire brigade poured over the building.
  • (18) At the same time, they have to hope that they still have appeal to some moderate, centrist voters as a counterweight and restraint on the red tribe to their left and the blue brigade on their right.
  • (19) "That's what the defectors are telling us," said Sheikh Tawfik Abu Sleiman, leader of one of the Aleppo brigades.
  • (20) The differences between companies makes it pretty complex.” Asked about privacy concerns, Abbott told ABC radio he had “no doubt that the civil libertarian brigade will do their best to stop this, but my responsibility as prime minister is to keep our country safe.

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.

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