What's the difference between colonel and lieutenant?

Colonel


Definition:

  • (n.) The chief officer of a regiment; an officer ranking next above a lieutenant colonel and next below a brigadier general.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Scott was born in North Shields, Tyne and Wear, the youngest of the three sons of Colonel Francis Percy Scott, who served in the Royal Engineers, and his wife, Elizabeth.
  • (2) Operations are ongoing,” a Pentagon spokesman, army colonel Steve Warren, confirmed on Wednesday afternoon.
  • (3) We defended this place with honour," Pogukay, a police colonel, said.
  • (4) Updated at 3.01pm BST 2.17pm BST POLICE CONFIRM DEATH Greek police have confirmed that a man has died during today's protests (as reported at 13.40 ) Greece's police spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Christos Manouras says the dead man's body has been taken to Athens' biggest public hospital, Evangelismos.
  • (5) Since the beginning of December, MNLA leaders have been broadcasting their plans to start an offensive, led by the head of the movement's military wing, Colonel Mohamed Ag Najim.
  • (6) This is certainly not what Libya was meant to become after the overthrow of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
  • (7) She was ambitious, and Colonel Gaddafi has always promoted ruthless people.
  • (8) Its leader, Colonel Abdou Ndiaye, said his troops had been well received by the Gambian population and had met no resistance from the country’s military.
  • (9) Following Mexico's example, the Honduran president, Porfirio Lobo, has ordered the military to join the crackdown on organised crime , and the country's latest anti-drug tsar, Colonel Isaac Santos, was drafted in from the army.
  • (10) Impulsive and bonhomous, Saakashvili, meanwhile, is clearly the temperamental opposite of Putin, the sober and clinical former KGB colonel.
  • (11) Colonel Kulagin, the other head administrator — the colony is run in tandem — called me in for a conversation on my first day here with the objective to force me to confess my guilt.
  • (12) We have to stay calm and deal with it.” The son of a lawyer and a dentist with distinctly non-leftist views, Milios is typical of a generation who embraced Marxist ideology during the 1967-74 colonels’ regime.
  • (13) He admired the demagogic black separatist Louis Farrakhan for his insistence that blacks and whites could never live together, and the dictatorships of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and Ayatollah Khomeini for their hatred of Jews.
  • (14) Colonel Felix Kulayigye, a Ugandan army spokesman, told reporters that the hunt for Kony would remain on hold "until further notice" because rebel leaders in the Central African Republic were refusing to co-operate with Ugandan troops stationed in the country.
  • (15) Mousa's father, Daoud Mousa, a police colonel, began a legal battle for a full public inquiry into his son's death.
  • (16) The Duke of Edinburgh attended in his role as Colonel of the Grenadier Guards.
  • (17) Colonel Jorge Mendonca was acquitted of failing to ensure that his men did not mistreat prisoners who were being held at a British detention centre in Basra, southern Iraq .
  • (18) Colonel Thanathip Sawangsaeng, a Thailand Defence Ministry spokesman, denied the allegations.
  • (19) He added: "The new authorities must make a complete break from the culture of abuse that Colonel al-Gaddafi's regime perpetuated and initiate the human rights reforms that are urgently needed in the country."
  • (20) 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.

Lieutenant


Definition:

  • (n.) An officer who supplies the place of a superior in his absence; a representative of, or substitute for, another in the performance of any duty.
  • (n.) A commissioned officer in the army, next below a captain.
  • (n.) A commissioned officer in the British navy, in rank next below a commander.
  • (n.) A commissioned officer in the United States navy, in rank next below a lieutenant commander.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Vladimir Putin brushed off complaints of election fixing during his annual televised live chat with the nation on Thursday , but behind the scenes his lieutenants are anxiously plotting how to quell rising discontent.
  • (2) Morrison and Operation Sovereign Borders commander Lieutenant General Angus Campbell continued to insist that their refusal to answer questions about “on water matters” was essential to meet the overriding goal of stopping asylum seeker boats, and said from now on such briefings on the policy would be held when needed, rather than every week because the “establishment phase” had finished.
  • (3) Others believe that, despite the fact that some of his closest lieutenants are among those indicted by US authorities, he planned to use the time until the new election to ease a favoured successor into the post.
  • (4) "Only one bullet that we're aware of hit, the second Australian returned fire and critically injured and possibly killed the Afghani," said Lieutenant General Rhys Jones, chief of the New Zealand Defence Force, who identified his injured soldier as an instructor from the officer academy.
  • (5) Updated at 3.01pm BST 2.17pm BST POLICE CONFIRM DEATH Greek police have confirmed that a man has died during today's protests (as reported at 13.40 ) Greece's police spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Christos Manouras says the dead man's body has been taken to Athens' biggest public hospital, Evangelismos.
  • (6) Lieutenant General Abdel Wahab al-Saadi said his forces secured the largely agricultural southern neighbourhood of Naymiya, under cover of US-led coalition airstrikes, and are poised to enter the main city.
  • (7) And on all counts, Cameron and his lieutenants will be dead wrong.
  • (8) His lieutenants have floated the possibility that whoever takes over our roads could get them on 100-year leases – which would just be transferring a public asset to some private-sector oligarch.
  • (9) "They had taken some Iranian and Pakistani hostages so we had to separate them from the pirate suspects," said Lieutenant Commander Claus Krum, a veteran of five piracy missions.
  • (10) I was just a young lieutenant flying out in the West Pacific off aircraft carriers, and at that time I believed – and I think most other people did too – that they were asking us to do something that was impossible.
  • (11) His friends and contacts reflected the broad span of his interests, from Winston Churchill, whose History of the English-Speaking Peoples Briggs proofread as a young don, to Chairman Mao’s loyal lieutenant Zhou Enlai and J Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atom bomb.
  • (12) Djibrine and Younous were convicted and jailed for life earlier this year in N’Djamena after their surprise arrests in 2013, but three other suspected senior lieutenants are still on the run.
  • (13) Former Rwandan ambassador to Washington, Theogene Rudasingwa, explained to Newsweek in a January article how the Rwandan government extracted money out of the DRC: "After the first Congo war, money began coming in through military channels and never entered the coffers of the Rwandan state," says Rudasingwa, Kagame's former lieutenant.
  • (14) Sports Direct's chief executive, Dave Forsey, a long-standing lieutenant of Ashley, said: "The share scheme glues this company together.
  • (15) The Libyan had been a Bin Laden lieutenant and had served as an al-Qaida link with supporters in Iran, Iraq and Algeria.
  • (16) In keeping with the long tradition of skulking secrecy, the appointment was not made public until 2000, by which time he was a lieutenant-general and, to those in the know, second only to Mubarak.
  • (17) 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.
  • (18) Democrats also won the battle for lieutenant governor and were within a whisker of securing the post of attorney general – an unprecedented sweep in a state that until recently was a Republican stronghold.
  • (19) Lieutenant colonel Peter Lerner spokesman for the Israeli Defence Force said: [Hamas] has a policy of abduction, so we have to inflict a certain amount of pressure on the organisation so they realise it is not worth it to carry out this.
  • (20) Offering a pair of binoculars, first lieutenant Noman Osman, a Kurdish soldier, pointed to the Isis checkpoint.