What's the difference between lancer and uhlan?

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.

Uhlan


Definition:

  • (n.) One of a certain description of militia among the Tartars.
  • (n.) One of a kind of light cavalry of Tartaric origin, first introduced into European armies in Poland. They are armed with lances, pistols, and sabers, and are employed chiefly as skirmishers.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The past 24 hours in politics may come to look like an early skirmish in what turned into a total breakdown of the armistice negotiated when David Cameron became leader, the first Uhlan cavalry into Belgium.

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