What's the difference between lancer and soldier?

Lancer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who lances; one who carries a lance; especially, a member of a mounted body of men armed with lances, attached to the cavalry service of some nations.
  • (n.) A lancet.
  • (n.) A set of quadrilles of a certain arrangement.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) • The Queen's Royal Lancers are to be amalgamated with the 9th and 12th Royal Lancers.
  • (2) Corporal Matthew Millington, 31, of the Queen's Royal Lancers, was stationed in Iraq in 2005 when he was diagnosed with an incurable condition which left him unable to breathe; he was told that he would die unless he had a lung transplant.
  • (3) The badge, known as "the motto", is worn by the Queen's Royal Lancers.
  • (4) The Queen's Royal Lancers emerged from a number of regiments which took part in the Charge of the Light Brigade in the Crimean war, Waterloo, the last great British cavalry charge at Omdurman in Sudan in which a young Lieutenant Winston Churchill led a troop, and Ypres in the first world war.
  • (5) The present study was undertaken to determine the effects of the primer component of Mono-Lok (Rocky Mountain) and the primer component of Control (Lancer Pacific) on skin.
  • (6) The English killed our king Llywelyn [who is regarded as the last leader of a united and independent Wales and died at the hand of an English lancer in 1282].
  • (7) Also examined are two independent studies made of the informational adequacy of the LANCER project documents.
  • (8) This finding was recorded in all the cases when wound direction was perpendicular to Lancer's lines of the skin area in which the wound was located.
  • (9) An evaluation of a photoelectric clot timer, the Lancer Coagulyzer, in measuring the one-stage prothrombin time has been carried out.
  • (10) Flexible fibreoptic rhinolaryngoscopy has been shown to be an accurate, reliable, inexpensive and safe method of examining the upper aero-digestive tract (Lancer and Moir, 1985).
  • (11) It was joined by a sapphire and silver brooch given by HMS Ocean, a navy helicopter carrier, and a diamante brooch from the Queen’s Royal Lancers.
  • (12) Four automated coagulation instruments were evaluated for performance of prothrombin time and activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT): the Dade Auto-Fi, General Diagnostics Dual Channel Coag-a-Mate, MLA Electra 600D, and Sherwood Lancer Coagulyzer.

Soldier


Definition:

  • (n.) One who is engaged in military service as an officer or a private; one who serves in an army; one of an organized body of combatants.
  • (n.) Especially, a private in military service, as distinguished from an officer.
  • (n.) A brave warrior; a man of military experience and skill, or a man of distinguished valor; -- used by way of emphasis or distinction.
  • (n.) The red or cuckoo gurnard (Trigla pini.)
  • (n.) One of the asexual polymorphic forms of white ants, or termites, in which the head and jaws are very large and strong. The soldiers serve to defend the nest. See Termite.
  • (v. i.) To serve as a soldier.
  • (v. i.) To make a pretense of doing something, or of performing any task.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They are the E-1 to E-3 pay grades and soldiers in combat arms units.
  • (2) But in a country with an unemployment rate of nearly 70%, including many former child soldiers, there are no certainties.
  • (3) "Some of the shrapnel went into the arm of the Australian soldier that was hit, another part went into the foot [of the New Zealand soldier]," he told a news conference .
  • (4) Women on the beat: how to get more female police officers around the world Read more Mortars were, for instance, used on 5 June when Afghan national army soldiers accidentally hit a wedding party on the outskirts of Ghazni, killing eight children.
  • (5) The soldiers allegedly launched the attack after one of their comrades was killed when he became involved in an argument over a woman near Fizi hospital.
  • (6) He is telling others at the checkpoint not to enter.” The images suggest Hashlamon turned to face a soldier with a radio – who according to eyewitnesses was a commander – who approached from the left from the photographer’s point of view.
  • (7) Bill O’Reilly has told different versions of an encounter at gunpoint that he claims to have experienced while reporting in Argentina – one involving a single armed soldier and the other detailing several troops.
  • (8) "This was followed later by an attack at the SPLA (South Sudan army) headquarters near Juba University by a group of soldiers allied to the former vice-president Dr Riek Machar and his group.
  • (9) Eleven US soldiers have been convicted in the Abu Ghraib scandal.
  • (10) How World of Warcraft train future soldiers One odder digression sees the two discussing whether or not MMORPGs, video games like World of Warcraft, are evil.
  • (11) Hours after the firefight ended, and just a few dozen kilometres away, a "very reliable" member of the Afghan local police turned his gun on two British soldiers.
  • (12) He admitted the increased profile afforded him by appearances in movies such as Captain America , its forthcoming sequel The Winter Soldier and 2012's $1.5bn superhero ensemble piece The Avengers had helped him get a foot on the ladder as a film-maker.
  • (13) He saw a soldier aim his weapon’s laser sight at the al-Atrashes’ Volkswagen “like he was preparing to shoot”.
  • (14) Afghan officials in the past have expressed fears that soldiers sent to Pakistan could be recruited as spies or that their careers would be stunted by the deep hostility that Afghans harbour towards Pakistan.
  • (15) "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.
  • (16) One hundred fifty-two cases among active duty Army soldiers were identified.
  • (17) The last American soldier held captive by the Afghan Taliban has been released, after the US government agreed to free five Afghan detainees from the Guantánamo Bay prison in Cuba to the custody of the Qatari government, US officials said.
  • (18) We talked of his time as a soldier in the first world war.
  • (19) You can bear witness to the gallantry of our military in Burma, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Darfur and many other parts of the world, but in the matter of the insurgency our soldiers have neither received the necessary support nor the required incentives to tackle this problem.” He added: “We believe that there is faulty intelligence and analysis.
  • (20) "There are definitely green men there today, they aren't hiding that they're from Crimea, from Russia," she said, referring to the unmarked soldiers Russia deployed to take control of Crimea last month, who are popularly known as "little green men".