What's the difference between regiment and troop?

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.

Troop


Definition:

  • (n.) A collection of people; a company; a number; a multitude.
  • (n.) Soldiers, collectively; an army; -- now generally used in the plural.
  • (n.) Specifically, a small body of cavalry, light horse, or dragoons, consisting usually of about sixty men, commanded by a captain; the unit of formation of cavalry, corresponding to the company in infantry. Formerly, also, a company of horse artillery; a battery.
  • (n.) A company of stageplayers; a troupe.
  • (n.) A particular roll of the drum; a quick march.
  • (v. i.) To move in numbers; to come or gather in crowds or troops.
  • (v. i.) To march on; to go forward in haste.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Anti-corruption campaigners have already trooped past the €18.9m mansion on Rue de La Baume, bought in 2007 in the name of two Bongo children, then 13 and 16, and other relatives, in what some call Paris's "ill-gotten gains" walking tour.
  • (2) I want to be clear; the American forces that have been deployed to Iraq do not and will not have a combat mission,” said Obama in a speech to troops at US Central Command headquarters in Florida.
  • (3) They insist this is the best way of ensuring the country does not descend into chaos before the final withdrawal of combat troops.
  • (4) They say there aren’t Russian troops [in Ukraine].
  • (5) If we reach the point where I believe our advisers should accompany Iraqi troops on attacks against specific [Isis] targets, I will recommend that to the president,” Dempsey said, preferring the term “close combat advising”.
  • (6) The strength of the outcry forced the Japanese and American governments to reduce the impact, though not the presence, of troops by a "good neighbour" policy.
  • (7) The army has said it will deploy troops on the streets on that day, while the president says he may introduce a state of emergency if, as expected, the protests spark widespread civil unrest.
  • (8) It also devalues the courage of real whistleblowers who have used proper channels to hold our government accountable.” McCain added: “It is a sad, yet perhaps fitting commentary on President Obama’s failed national security policies that he would commute the sentence of an individual that endangered the lives of American troops, diplomats, and intelligence sources by leaking hundreds of thousands of sensitive government documents to WikiLeaks, a virulently anti-American organisation that was a tool of Russia’s recent interference in our elections.” WikiLeaks last year published emails hacked from the accounts of the Democratic National Committee and John Podesta, chairman of Hillary Clinton’s election campaign.
  • (9) 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.
  • (10) The Pentagon leadership suggested to a Senate panel on Tuesday that US ground troops may directly join Iraqi forces in combat against the Islamic State (Isis), despite US president Barack Obama’s repeated public assurances against US ground combat in the latest Middle Eastern war.
  • (11) More than 200 American troops are in the country helping to train the army in counter-insurgency, but there are also said to be intelligence and special forces there.
  • (12) He said there were a sufficient number of shifts at Heathrow to maintain "a full immigration desk policy" and insisted the contingency planning for security at the Games, which had seen more than 18,000 military personnel called in, meant the government had enough troops in place or in reserve to make up for the G4S staffing fiasco.
  • (13) Gin was popularised in the UK via British troops who were given the spirit as “Dutch courage” during the 30 years’ war.
  • (14) The files, which were made available to the Guardian , the New York Times and the German weekly Der Spiegel, give a blow-by-blow account of the fighting over the last six years, which has so far cost the lives of more than 320 British and more than 1,000 US troops.
  • (15) A similar visa program for Afghans who aided troops was enacted in 2009 and offered up to 8,500 visas .
  • (16) There was no doubt that feelings ran deep then, but it would be another seven years before American troops withdrew.
  • (17) The victims have even included a month-old baby boy and elderly women, and even the biggest UN peacekeeping force in the world of 18,000 troops has been unable to end the violence.
  • (18) Verdict Black Hawk Down tiptoes carefully around the facts when it deals with US troops, but its interpretation of history is flimsy, one-sided, and politically questionable.
  • (19) The wane in US power over the country it invaded eight years ago, coupled with a return to political prominence for Sadrists, seems to have been enough to lure Sadr back to Najaf, which he fled in 2004 after it was surrounded by US troops.
  • (20) Most of these troops are being sent to Helmand and neighbouring Kandahar where a big push against the Taliban is expected in September, after the holy month of Ramadan.