What's the difference between fort and garrison?

Fort


Definition:

  • (n.) A strong or fortified place; usually, a small fortified place, occupied only by troops, surrounded with a ditch, rampart, and parapet, or with palisades, stockades, or other means of defense; a fortification.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In patients who had undergone gastric operations, the efficacy of a parenteral rehabilitation with plasma, human albumin and Aminofusin L forte was determined by assessing the extravascular albumin pool.
  • (2) In 2009, a US army major shot 13 dead in Fort Hood, Texas .
  • (3) A new long-acting nitrate, Isomak R (forte), has been shown to be an effective antianginal drug; it increases physical stress tolerance, prevents attacks of angina of effort or angina at rest, significantly decreases pulmonary arterial occlusion pressure, peripheral arterial pressure and total peripheral resistance.
  • (4) It was shown that six pesticides induced a statistically significant increase in the number of chromosomal aberrations: Bi 58 EC, Metasystox (I) forte, Sadofos 30, Nogos 50 EC, Foschlor 25 and Thiodan 35.
  • (5) About 250 flights were taken off the Friday morning board at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and Dallas Love Field.
  • (6) The Bears put together a 74 yard drive capped off by a Matt Forte run to give the Bears a one point lead... rather than "run" as I said earlier.
  • (7) Experience with 240 midface (Le Fort and zygoma) fractures in multiple trauma patients has emphasized that superior aesthetic results are obtained by immediate extended open reduction with primary bone grafting.
  • (8) In 12 patients with coronary heart disease and increased left ventricular filling pressure the pressure lowering effect of an oral long-acting nitroglycerin preparation (Sustac-Retard forte) was investigated at rest (n = 6) and during exercise (n = 6).
  • (9) Also the fat absorption with Creon was superior to that with Pancrex V Forte.
  • (10) The system involves a description of the highest level of Le Fort fracture on each side, a description of the fragment that carries the maxillary dentition, and a description of accompanying nasoethmoidal or mandibular fractures.
  • (11) A double-blind randomized study to compare the plasma cortisol values at both 9.00 a.m. and 12 midnight following topical application fo 10 g daily for 7 days of either diflucortolone valerate 0.3% (Nerisone Forte) ointment or clobetasol propionate 0.05% (Dermovate) ointment in 20 hospital inpatients suffering from severe psoriasis, showed that clinically both compounds behaved as potent, highly active topical preparations and caused rapid clinical improvement.
  • (12) In 2010, while he was based at Fort Worth in Texas, he was arrested after discharging a firearm.
  • (13) Hylak forte proved to be effective in the therapy of enteritis in infants; the period of excretion of salmonella was significantly reduced.
  • (14) Fort Hood spokesman Chris Haug said the search continued after teams late Thursday night found the bodies of two soldiers who had been in the vehicle.
  • (15) Side effects such as nausea, intermenstrual bleedings, and absence of menstruation were most often observed with Femigen forte; about 30% of these users.
  • (16) Sawyer, William D. (U.S. Army Medical Unit, Fort Detrick, Frederick, Md.
  • (17) In 1985 the families of 137 passengers killed when a Delta Airlines jet crashed at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport stayed in a secluded hotel while waiting for the victims' bodies to be retrieved and identified.
  • (18) The skeleton of an adult man, recovered from an eighteenth century French fort site in Indiana, exhibited a series of sharp force wounds.
  • (19) Le Fort I and sagittal split osteotomies were associated with a mean decrease in MIO of 28%, while Le Fort I and vertical subcondylar osteotomies had a mean decrease of 9%.
  • (20) Fort McMurray is the hub of Alberta’s oil sands region .

Garrison


Definition:

  • (n.) A body of troops stationed in a fort or fortified town.
  • (n.) A fortified place, in which troops are quartered for its security.
  • (v. t.) To place troops in, as a fortification, for its defense; to furnish with soldiers; as, to garrison a fort or town.
  • (v. t.) To secure or defend by fortresses manned with troops; as, to garrison a conquered territory.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) India, meanwhile, continues to garrison half a million soldiers in Kashmir, nearly three times the number of American troops in Iraq at the peak of the occupation.
  • (2) High risk groups included the Garrison Force (home guard), anti-aircraft gunners and infantry and armoured units stationed at Hsing-jen.
  • (3) "There's still a 5,000-strong British army garrison, a new MI5 HQ in Belfast, and a British secretary of state.
  • (4) She was later moved to a hospital in Rawalpindi, the garrison town close to the Pakistani capital.
  • (5) After the death of Alexander the Great in 323BC the Greek garrisons of India and Afghanistan found themselves cut off from their Mediterranean homeland, and had no choice but to stay on, intermingling with the local peoples, and leavening Indian learning with classical philosophy.
  • (6) The British garrison numbered nearly 140,000 but was in total chaos, under‑equipped with no aircraft or tanks, demoralised and disorganised.
  • (7) It says there was no civilian population on the island in 1833, with the Royal Navy expelling an Argentine military garrison that had arrived three months earlier.
  • (8) Having begun as a castle town at the end of the 1500s under the rule of the feudal warlord Mori Terumoto, by the end of the 19 th century it served as a regional garrison for the Imperial Japanese Army; as a major manufacturing centre, it helped fuel the Japanese empire’s military efforts in the Asia-Pacific.
  • (9) The military has erected a wall around the 3,800 sq ft plot where the al-Qaida leader’s compound once stood in the garrison city of Abbottabad, and wants to convert it into a graveyard.
  • (10) The mood, of course, was sombre across the sprawling garrison.
  • (11) Also near Al-Hasakah several buildings that were part of an Isis garrison were destroyed.
  • (12) Military personnel from Colchester Garrison helped emergency services during the night in Maldon in the county and most people evacuated from their homes had left rest centres, police said.
  • (13) "Musharraf is not avoiding the courts," Chaudhry said, adding the former president was still being treated at a hospital in Rawalpindi, a garrison city near Islamabad.
  • (14) Over a 3-month period, 36 procedures (Esophagogastroduodenoscopy, 25; colonoscopy, 7; flexible sigmoidoscopy, 4) were performed in soldiers both in the garrison and in combat.
  • (15) Aaron Sorkin publishes letter urging daughter to fight after Trump win Read more The other plotlines are more complicated: while Randy and Mr Garrison have been (mostly) obsessed with the election this season, rest of the town in up in arms about online harassment.
  • (16) By then, although he remained active on the periphery of politics, he had become a partner in the prominent New York law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison.
  • (17) On 3 June 1999, he accepted a peace plan allowing a Nato-led Kosovo Force, K-For, to garrison the territory and safeguard the return of the refugees.
  • (18) It was an Argentine garrison which had been sent to the islands to try to impose Argentine sovereignty over British sovereign territory … until the people of the Falkland Islands choose to become Argentinian, they remain resolutely British."
  • (19) Now they are back again after fighting this week resulted in the deaths of four soldiers and forced the closure of a small government garrison.
  • (20) In response, Traore closed all schools in Bamako and in the garrison town of Kati.