What's the difference between fusilier and regiment?
Fusilier
Definition:
(n.) Formerly, a soldier armed with a fusil. Hence, in the plural:
(n.) A title now borne by some regiments and companies; as, "The Royal Fusiliers," etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Adebolajo and Adebowale hit Fusilier Rigby , 25, in a car before hacking him to death near Woolwich barracks in south-east London on 22 May 2013.
(2) The Allied troops who rushed the beaches here 100 years ago, wrote Captain Richard Willis of the First Battalion, the Lancashire Fusiliers – who went on to win a Victoria Cross that day – were little more than “target practice for the concealed Turks”.
(3) The base has been reinforced with further troops from 2 Scots, the Royal Highland Fusiliers, who were drafted in “to bolster security and reassure the local population” according to the Ministry of Defence (MoD).
(4) Relatives of Fusilier Rigby said justice had been served after Adebolajo was given the whole-life term, which condemns him to die behind bars.
(5) By contrast, keen golfer Prince Andrew spent £14,692 on a charter flight from Farnborough to Scotland, to visit the Royal Highland Fusiliers, and also take in the Open Championship at Muirfield.
(6) Among the other soldiers who were found at the same time were a Northumberland Fusilier, another six Royal Scottish Fusiliers and a member of the York and Lancaster regiment.
(7) In a statement to the House of Commons, Hammond said five battalions would disappear in the reorganisation – the 5th Battalion the Royal Regiment of Scotland, 2nd Battalion the Royal Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion the Yorkshire regiment, 3dr Battalion the Mercian Regiment and the 2nd Battalion the Royal Welsh.
(8) • May 2013: Fusilier Lee Rigby murdered by two Islamist extremists in Woolwich , south London.
(9) I will then also have to explain to my Fusiliers in a fully manned battalion why they are likely to be posted to battalions that cannot recruit.
(10) All our thoughts are with the victims and the families of those who have been affected.” The attack came less than three weeks before Britain’s general election on 8 June and on the anniversary of the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby.
(11) As the government prepares for the publication on Tuesday morning of the official inquiry into the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby last year , Theresa May announced that the legislation would also place a statutory duty on schools, colleges, prisons and local councils to help prevent people from being drawn into terrorism.
(12) • MPs have called on the government to reverse plans to close 2nd Battalion, the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers (2RRF), in a Commons vote.
(13) Rigby, from Langley, in Middleton, Greater Manchester, served with 2nd Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, and was attached to the regimental recruiting team when he was hacked to death in broad daylight on Wednesday afternoon in Woolwich, south-east London.
(14) He was on his first tour of duty with 2nd Battalion the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers and was one of the youngest members of the battle group when he was killed attempting to save his section commander during a Taliban attack.
(15) The Electoral Commission again apologised to the family of the murdered fusilier for allowing Britain First to put "Remember Lee Rigby" on voting slips in this month's European elections , and said it was tightening up its system of checks to ensure a similar mistake is never repeated.
(16) Fusilier Rigby's murderers were found guilty yesterday by a jury in a court of law after an open trial.
(17) Despite many showing immense bravery – famously, half a dozen Victoria Crosses were won “before breakfast” on the first day of the Gallipoli landings by officers and men from the First Battalion, Royal Lancashire Fusiliers, who lost all but 21 of their first 200 men ashore – the allies were unable to make good their advance.
(18) The long-awaited intelligence committee report into the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby essentially clears the intelligence agencies of blame in failing to prevent the attack by two Islamist jihadist killers but throws up controversial issues, especially the role of internet companies.
(19) After the London bombings in 2005 and the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby in 2013, it was fair to question what the police and MI5 knew in advance and what, if anything, they could have done to stop it.
(20) Cage drew a parallel with Michael Adebolajo, jailed for the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby, and claimed he too had been harassed, under pressure to become an informer and, in turn, radicalised.
Regiment
Definition:
(n.) Government; mode of ruling; rule; authority; regimen.
(n.) A region or district governed.
(n.) A body of men, either horse, foot, or artillery, commanded by a colonel, and consisting of a number of companies, usually ten.
(v. t.) To form into a regiment or into regiments.
Example Sentences:
(1) The overall control of blood glucose before and two hrs meals was better with soluble insulin regiment than with the Lente insulin regimen.
(2) Speaking outside Battlesbury barracks in Warminster, Wiltshire, Stenning said: "Barely 48 hours ago, we heard the terrible news that six soldiers from The 3rd Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment were declared missing, believed killed, after their Warrior armoured vehicle was caught in an explosion in southern Afghanistan.
(3) Eyewitnesses said the driver was wearing a black beret, indicating that he was not a member of the Parachute Regiment.
(4) The RSC’s Erica Whyman stages a story inspired by a local man, the Royal Warwickshire Regiment’s Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, who was known as the cartoonist of the trenches and survived the war to work at the original Shakespeare Memorial theatre.
(5) Dan Jarvis is Labour MP for Barnsley Central and a former officer in the Parachute Regiment
(6) A Royal Military police officer who was attached to the Rifles regiment, Pritchard had been put on duty at an observation post in the Sangin area of Helmand province, where the Taliban had fought hard for control.
(7) Withheld documents · Sale of arms to Saudi Arabia · Special maritime surveillance operations · An improved kiloton bomb · Production of chemical weapons · Chemical warfare policy · Operations Grape and Tiara · Medical aspects of interrogation · Special operations and how they affect deception · Atomic energy: information received from US under military agreement · Nuclear warheads in the far east · Project R1 · SAS regiment: Borneo operations
(8) These observations suggest that steroid-inclusive medication regiments can affect cognitive performance.
(9) 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.
(10) Patients whose disease responded to the high-single-dose, alternate-day prednisone regiment were indistinguishable from nonresponders by the immunological responses measured.
(11) The loss of 12 Scottish regiments since 1957 had loosened military ties," he said.
(12) The soldier, the 294th to have died in Afghanistan since 2001, was from the 2nd Battalion The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment, attached to 1st Battalion The Mercian Regiment, the MoD said.
(13) As assistant bacteriologist and ex-POW he joined the British regimental hospital in Bangkok.
(14) Animals fed on the LP diet had elevated plasma concentrations of both total and free triiodothyronine (T3) concentrations whereas those on the ER regiment showed values below those of controls.
(15) The retired appeal court judge's report, which runs to three volumes, found that troops from 1st Battalion Queen's Lancashire Regiment inflicted "gratuitous" violence on a group of 10 Iraqi civilians, who were kicked and hit in turn, "causing them to emit groans and other noises and thereby playing them like musical instruments".
(16) 99 patients were treated with combination chemotherapy (MOPP or equivalent regiments) with or without additional irradiation of some involved areas.
(17) Such clinical characteristics and functional parameters as: duration of "dishabituation" from assisted breathing, need of re-intubation, changes in oxygen consumption etc, caused by change in the ventilatory regiment, were evaluated and analyzed.
(18) I find it very embarrassing when people ask what they should call me – then, I stumble.” Although he had to start learning the management of the family estates instead of taking up an army career as intended, Grosvenor did serve with the Territorials, in the Queen’s Own Yeomanry cavalry regiment, rising through the ranks, attending the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst and eventually becoming a major-general and assistant chief of the defence staff with responsibility for the army reserves and cadets.
(19) Late Royal Regiment of Artillery Officer (OBE) Lt Col Timothy John Simon Allen.
(20) The Queen's Lancashire Regiment is more than 300 years old and has won more battle honours than any other infantry regiment.