What's the difference between cantonment and military?

Cantonment


Definition:

  • (n.) A town or village, or part of a town or village, assigned to a body of troops for quarters; temporary shelter or place of rest for an army; quarters.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In almost all the cantons the consent of the parents is necessary.
  • (2) Member, Canton and Riverside Division, Cardiff, St. John Ambulance.
  • (3) I sat there thinking that in Canton we never had time to sleep, much less dream.” The late Edward Kennedy called it “the great aria of the civil rights movement”.
  • (4) A new allele of white-coral (wco2) was isolated from Canton S after mutagenesis.
  • (5) Most immediately in Zurich is the likely publication of a settlement made in court in the Swiss canton of Zug, in connection with alleged bribes paid to senior Fifa officials in the late 1990s by the marketing company ISL.
  • (6) Crude and relative survival rates were analyzed using data from 4,199 incident breast cancers in females and 39 breast cancers in males registered between 1974 and 1988 in the Cancer Registry of the Swiss Canton of Vaud.
  • (7) The follow-up sample consisted of 841 men in the Canton of Zurich who had been selected from a complete survey of men born in 1952.
  • (8) Separation forces were tested with an Instron machine (Instron Corp., Canton, Mass.).
  • (9) In the Canton of Graubunden, 33% of the 13-15 year old pupils and 34% of those aged 17-19 from a total of 166 smoked regularly or occasionally; none of the younger, but 8% of the older pupils had already tried drugs once.
  • (10) The authors study the various aspects of the 484 attempts of suicide examined over the year 1974 at the Psychiatric Policlinic of the Geneva Cantonal Hospital.
  • (11) Angry demonstrations over the government’s refusal to relieve Kobani , the Syrian canton under siege from the brutal group calling itself Islamic State (Isis), led to a spate of deaths.
  • (12) In the first survey, based on representative population samples, blood lead level was measured in the cantons of Vaud and Fribourg.
  • (13) Four spines were mounted in an Instron machine (Instron Engineering Corp., Canton, MA).
  • (14) 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.
  • (15) At a lower level, France has the level of "canton."
  • (16) All renal allotransplants performed at the Cantonal Hospital, Zurich, in 1975 and 1976 were analysed with respect to pre-transplant blood transfusions, excluding secondary transplants, patients on dialysis outside of Switzerland, combined renal and pancreatic transplants, and women with previous pregnancies but without transfusions.
  • (17) Between 1978 and 1984, the University Hospital of Geneva (Hôpital Cantonal Universitaire) received 46 head injured patients who "talked and died" after their brain insult.
  • (18) (And even in Switzerland the tax policies vary canton by canton, and are regularly put to the vote.)
  • (19) The purpose of the present epidemiological study is to investigate and describe panic disorder and sporadic panic attacks among a cohort of young adults, aged 28 years, from the Canton of Zurich in Switzerland.
  • (20) Velásquez, 23, had been terrified by stories linking Zika to birth defects , so on Christmas Day she drove 25 miles south from the semi-rural canton of Aguilares to the nearest public hospital in the capital, San Salvador.

Military


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to soldiers, to arms, or to war; belonging to, engaged in, or appropriate to, the affairs of war; as, a military parade; military discipline; military bravery; military conduct; military renown.
  • (a.) Performed or made by soldiers; as, a military election; a military expedition.
  • (n.) The whole body of soldiers; soldiery; militia; troops; the army.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a debate in the House of Commons, I will ask Britain, the US and other allies to convert generalised offers of help into more practical support with greater air cover, military surveillance and helicopter back-up, to hunt down the terrorists who abducted the girls.
  • (2) A full-scale war is unlikely but there is clear concern in Seoul about the more realistic threat of a small-scale attack on the South Korean military or a group of islands near the countries' disputed maritime border in the Yellow Sea.
  • (3) A Swedish news agency said it had received an email warning before the blasts in which a threat was made against Sweden's population, linked to the country's military presence in Afghanistan and the five-year-old case of caricatures of the prophet Muhammad by Swedish artist Lars Vilks.
  • (4) To safeguard its long-time regional ally, Iran gave full political, economic and military backing to the embattled Syrian president.
  • (5) The incidence of antibody to exotoxin was highest in the age groups ranging from 26 to 32 years, where the positive rates were higher than 40% and 30% for military personnel serving in Sarawak and Sabah, respectively.
  • (6) Abe’s longstanding efforts toward those goals, which include the successful passage of a state secrets act and efforts to expand the scope of Japan’s military activities have already damaged relations with China.
  • (7) The military is not being honest about the number of men on strike: most of us are refusing to eat.
  • (8) 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.
  • (9) To a large extent, the failure has been a consequence of a cold war-style deadlock – Russia and Iran on one side, and the west and most of the Arab world on the other – over the fate of Bashar al-Assad , a negotiating gap kept open by force in the shape of massive Russian and Iranian military support to keep the Syrian regime in place.
  • (10) Among the dead were two young young officers, Major Mujahid Ali and Captain Usman, whose life stories the media seized upon, helped by the military's public relations machine.
  • (11) The exercise comes at a sensitive time for Poland’s military, following the sacking or forced retirement of a quarter of the country’s generals since the nationalist Law and Justice government came to power in October last year.
  • (12) A questionnaire was presented to 2009 18--19 year old military recruitment candidates which enabled assessment of antipathy towards patients with severe acne vulgaris, the occupational handicap associated with severe acne and subjective inhibitions in acne patients.
  • (13) Chapter three Administration of the camps The preparatory camp is the first home and school of the mujahid in which his military and jihadi training sessions take place and he undergoes sufficient education in matters of his religion, life and jihad.
  • (14) Moallem’s news conference came a day after jihadis captured a major military air base in north-eastern Syria, eliminating the last government-held outpost in a province otherwise dominated by the Islamic State group.
  • (15) They were granted “extraordinary leave” and left with their military equipment to be captured or killed on the streets of the Chechen capital.
  • (16) Tony Abbott urges Europe to adopt Australian policies in refugee crisis Read more Given that Obama – whatever one’s views on his strategy – is not advocating a bigger military contribution, the only difference is that Abbott is “urging” the US and others to do more, which sounds resolute, and Turnbull says he would consider any request if it was made.
  • (17) There has been a tendency to portray Russians as aggressively imperialistic at heart, a homogeneous bloc thirsty for military adventures.
  • (18) Germany’s parliament has thrown its weight behind the European campaign against Islamic State , voting with a solid majority in favour of deploying military personnel to Syria in a non-combat role.
  • (19) Urban ambulance systems emerged in the second half of the 19th century as an outgrowth of military experiences in both Europe and America.
  • (20) They had to be seen as the good guys, and not as either this administration or that administration.” Comey left the justice department in 2005 for Lockheed Martin, the largest military contractor in the US, and eventually an investment firm and Columbia Law School.

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