(n.) A flag; a banner; a standard; esp., the national flag, or a banner indicating nationality, carried by a ship or a body of soldiers; -- as distinguished from flags indicating divisions of the army, rank of naval officers, or private signals, and the like.
(n.) A signal displayed like a standard, to give notice.
(n.) Sign; badge of office, rank, or power; symbol.
(n.) Formerly, a commissioned officer of the army who carried the ensign or flag of a company or regiment.
(n.) A commissioned officer of the lowest grade in the navy, corresponding to the grade of second lieutenant in the army.
(v. t.) To designate as by an ensign.
(v. t.) To distinguish by a mark or ornament; esp. (Her.), by a crown; thus, any charge which has a crown immediately above or upon it, is said to be ensigned.
Example Sentences:
(1) The assets he's offering to the indie sector are, apparently, Virgin, Chrysalis UK (excluding its deal with Robbie Williams), Ensign, Mute, Jazzland and Sanctuary.
(2) On the way back, Ensign asked them if they needed anything before they left.
(3) The French port of Saint-Nazaire woke to find the Russian naval ensign – a blue cross – flying offshore on Monday and a new row over France's sale of state-of-the-art warships to Moscow.
(4) Ensign, J. C. (University of Wisconsin, Madison), and R. S. Wolfe.
(5) Remember,” Ensign says, finding them in a study room one recent afternoon, “on your first day here, you guys looked at the food and you were like, what is this?” The girls all burst out laughing.
(6) Recently Ensign asked the girls to write an essay describing what education meant to them.
(7) Interfax Ukraine reported that a group of people with Russian navy ensigns also gathered at the airport’s building.
(8) So unless the economy comes back and land prices come back, I’m stuck.” His friend and roommate Carter chimes in: “Dropping dead is my retirement.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Valery Lyman An oil worker on an Ensign drilling platform north of Williston.
(9) Back in Yola, her boss Ensign heard about the two sisters’ dilemma and called their father.
(10) But he admitted that the 183 drill ships and platforms that reportedly sail under the Marshallese ensign were an uncomfortable reality as one of the tiny nation’s major sources of income.
(11) We are entrusting our children to you.” Ensign found herself choking back tears.
(12) That evening came a moment Ensign says she will never forget.
(13) The commander of the operation has sent the following message: ''Be pleased to inform Her Majesty that the White Ensign flies alongside the Union Jack in South Georgia.
(14) Ensign set up a foundation , which garnered $50,000 (£33,000) in donations to put 10 girls through the university for one year.
(15) We’ll raise the money to take both your girls.” Weeks later, while they prepared for the girls’ arrival, he called Ensign in a panic.
(16) She came into my office and, really quietly, she told me that her sister was one of the girls who had escaped, and she and all the other girls were just there in Chibok, doing nothing,” Ensign recalled.
(17) There is idealism and flying the ensign of volunteerism and common ownership and then there is the commitment, the torched time, the drain on the £75,000 contributions fund and the fight to keep inching forward.
(18) Other assets on the list reportedly include labels such as Chrysalis UK, excluding Robbie Williams, Ensign, Mute, Jazzland and Sanctuary.
(19) She approached her boss at the American University of Nigeria in Yola, Margee Ensign, an energetic, cheerful woman who has run the establishment for six years.
(20) But after 21, we had to stop because that’s a big commitment,” Ensign said.
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.