What's the difference between enlistment and rendezvous?

Enlistment


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or enlisting, or the state of being enlisted; voluntary enrollment to serve as a soldier or a sailor.
  • (n.) The writing by which an enlisted man is bound.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A sweet-talking man in a suit who enlists the most successful barrister in town holds remarkable sway, I’ve learned.
  • (2) Thus, the school, church, community and social agencies have all been enlisted in this task.
  • (3) Prince Harry and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have enlisted a rapper, a Royal Marine and a Labour spin doctor to try to push stigma about discussing mental health beyond what they believe is a “tipping point” and into public acceptability.
  • (4) The Democratic US Senator for Maryland, Ben Cardin, tried to enlist the State Department's help but was brushed aside.
  • (5) How can we let our girls, one-quarter of our population, be damaged for life by sexual abuse?” Bansal enlisted the support of the Recovery and Healing from Incest Foundation (Rahi) , an NGO that works with child abuse survivors to train police officers.
  • (6) We studied drinking patterns and problems of 451 US Army enlisted men after their return from Vietnam.
  • (7) Google enlisted members of the US congress, whose election campaigns it had funded, to pressure the European Union to drop a €6bn antitrust case which threatens to decimate the US tech firm’s business in Europe.
  • (8) The directive seeks to tackle head on the industry's attempts to enlist young people as smokers by introducing graphic warnings and banning flavouring and other enhancements.
  • (9) To bail themselves out of the NBA's worst crisis of credibility since the Tim Donaghy officiating scandal, the easy part for the NBA will be enlisting the eagerness and financial muscle of Magic Johnson and Mark Walter of the Guggenheim Partners – owners of the Los Angeles Dodgers .
  • (10) There are relationships between cannabis use and geographic area of enlistment, religious preference, aptitude scores, race, educational level, and age at enlistment.
  • (11) The workshop is designed to help family and friends become useful, long-term resources for patients with recurrent depression and to enlist their assistance in the treatment study.
  • (12) The analysis presented here enlists two of these approaches, each in modified form, to develop a highly efficient search protocol for Escherichia coli promoters and to provide a relative ranking of these sites showing good agreement with in vitro measurements of promoter strength.
  • (13) An enlisted US army reservist, he was deployed to Afghanistan in November 2013 and served there until July 2014, according to his service record, released by the US army on Friday.
  • (14) To demonstrate whether a reduction in clinically significant adverse outcomes truly occurs with LOM, trials will need to enlist larger numbers of patients and employ appropriate outcome measures.
  • (15) In this connection, it was found to be very useful to enlist the help of the nurse or male nurse as co-leader of the group.
  • (16) The diagnosis and management of headache in children is a challenge to the clinician, covering as it does a wide range of diagnostic possibilities and enlisting a range of skills from neurosurgery and infectious disease to the psychological.
  • (17) Only 2 of 155 soldiers enlisted in 1986 and 1987 meeting these criteria were separated for seizure-related complaints.
  • (18) 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.
  • (19) Green, who has enlisted his friend Kate Moss to design a range for Topshop, is the closest thing business has to a rock star.
  • (20) Because of the multiplier effects of SCOR programs, new investigators have been enlisted into arthritis research as issues related to this disease become a focus of investigation throughout universities and medical centers.

Rendezvous


Definition:

  • (n.) A place appointed for a meeting, or at which persons customarily meet.
  • (n.) Especially, the appointed place for troops, or for the ships of a fleet, to assemble; also, a place for enlistment.
  • (n.) A meeting by appointment.
  • (n.) Retreat; refuge.
  • (v. i.) To assemble or meet at a particular place.
  • (v. t.) To bring together at a certain place; to cause to be assembled.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That night, Weah borrowed from a Ronald Reagan script in promising supporters 'a rendezvous with destiny'.
  • (2) When flight controllers initially could not confirm deployment of the antennas in the minutes following its launch, they selected the backup rendezvous plan of two days and 34 orbits instead of the planned four-orbit, six-hour rendezvous.” A spokesman at Russian mission control said that the Progress “reached orbit but the full volume of telemetry (data transmissions) is not being received.” Russia’s mission control website said that the ship would dock with the ISS, where the international crew of six people awaits the cargo, on April 30.
  • (3) And with an A-list rendezvous just a three-digit credit card security number away, no wonder fan expectations have increased.
  • (4) Her blog was gaining a growing following, and she gave an interview by email to CNN and agreed to talk in person to the Guardian's correspondent in Damascus, though she did not show up to that meeting, as is not uncommon for activists in the city, saying she had seen secret police at the rendezvous cafe.
  • (5) They also were great at showing how dangerous this "final frontier" of outer space was, as in this episode where two crew members arrive early in their shuttle to a rendezvous with the Enterprise, only to find evidence that the ship has been destroyed and they are totally alone.
  • (6) A brightly coloured train rattles across their path and stops abruptly and, after an affectionate hug, the two creatures climb aboard, carefully fasten their seatbelts and are bounced away to a rendezvous with their friends (a lavishly hatted family of peg dolls called the Pontipines; Makka Pakka, a squat, fuzzy troglodyte with OCD, and the Tombliboos, a triumvirate of pastel-coloured pepper pot creatures who live inside a topiary bush).
  • (7) The story of the Trump dossier: secret sources, an airport rendezvous, and John McCain Read more Coming just nine days before he enters the White House as the 45th president of the United States, Trump staged his first encounter with the world’s media since last July, admitting that he had actively avoided subjecting himself to press scrutiny in recent months on the grounds that we had been “getting quite a bit of inaccurate news”.
  • (8) Jaguar: 'Rendezvous' (starts at 01:18) - US Ben Kingsley, Tom Hiddleston and Mark Strong are all appearing as "British villains" in a commercial designed to emphasise Jaguar's movie heritage.
  • (9) Even in their undiluted misery back home in France and Italy, it would take a footballing spoilsport of the highest order not to want to cast an eye over the rendezvous between Argentina and Mexico at Soccer City in Johannesburg this evening.
  • (10) Katsu Naito's book West Side Rendezvous is out now.
  • (11) There were bacon rolls at £5.75 each according to the menu, and granola with yoghurt (£5.25) on the table at the Delaunay restaurant on the Aldwych – a rendezvous frequented by London's business and media elite – for the meeting which was chaired by the editor of the Times, James Harding.
  • (12) China is the third country after the United States and Russia to complete space rendezvous and docking procedures, Xinhua said.
  • (13) Ambulance rescue systems are of two types: the stationary, in which the physician travels with the ambulance, and the rendezvous, in which the physician and ambulance, travelling separately, meet at the accident site.
  • (14) On Sunday, the Greeks have a rendezvous with history.
  • (15) I think the difficult thing is just having to juggle your career and your spare time with a dog,” she tells me when we meet for our cutesily termed “welcome woof”, a brief rendezvous to check all three of us are happy at the prospect of handing over the leash.
  • (16) He says that he and his son were watching a baseball game in the US on 29 August, a date suggested for the secret rendezvous.
  • (17) The results of this investigation reveal that the prehospital treatment of cardiac arrest in Odense can be improved by participation of a doctor in the treatment, (particularly the rendezvous model).
  • (18) One bonus was that the kidnapped families had been left their cars, so a rendezvous outside Garara Qataf was arranged.
  • (19) The rendezvous in Ankara was beset by further uncertainty.
  • (20) The "rendezvous procedure" combines percutaneous transhepatic and endoscopic retrograde cholangiography.

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