What's the difference between sergeant and serjeant?
Sergeant
Definition:
(n.) Formerly, in England, an officer nearly answering to the more modern bailiff of the hundred; also, an officer whose duty was to attend on the king, and on the lord high steward in court, to arrest traitors and other offenders. He is now called sergeant-at-arms, and two of these officers, by allowance of the sovereign, attend on the houses of Parliament (one for each house) to execute their commands, and another attends the Court Chancery.
(n.) In a company, battery, or troop, a noncommissioned officer next in rank above a corporal, whose duty is to instruct recruits in discipline, to form the ranks, etc.
(n.) A lawyer of the highest rank, answering to the doctor of the civil law; -- called also serjeant at law.
(n.) A title sometimes given to the servants of the sovereign; as, sergeant surgeon, that is, a servant, or attendant, surgeon.
(n.) The cobia.
Example Sentences:
(1) The sergeant, listening in, was perplexed: "We obviously have, because I can hear you on the radio.
(2) That police sources were making such claims was confirmed by Taylor's solicitor, who told MPs that a named police sergeant had told him that 6,000 people may have had their phones hacked into.
(3) She speaks at voice level, but the black sergeant who stands in front of her can hear what’s she saying.
(4) An MRF sergeant was acquitted of attempted murder following a trial in 1973.
(5) The military prosecutor, major Rob Stelle, told the court: "Sergeant Gibbs had a charisma, he had a 'follow me' personality.
(6) Joanne Archambault, a retired police sergeant who now trains officers in handling what she calls "one of the most difficult crimes to investigate", said this can be a common reaction.
(7) • Very robust questioning, known as the harsh approach, could be banned – or if not "the approach should not include an analogy with a military drill sergeant".
(8) Who can deny that the west has served as a recruiting sergeant for Islamic extremism, that it effectively helped hand large swathes of Iraq and Libya over to such elements?
(9) Lance Sergeant Darren Shaw, whose daughter was two weeks old when he left for Afghanistan, said the parade would bring closure to the Afghan tour "then we can get ready and move on to what our next tasks are".
(10) Watching Sergeant Wright's patrol in Lashkar Gah was Ghulam Rasul, who has lost count of how old he is.
(11) A 31-year-old sergeant from a specialist riot unit was ordered to secure the police station and escort firefighters.
(12) The court martial centre at Bulford where sergeant Nightingale was tried, is quite unlike any ordinary court of law.
(13) He is largely pushed about by those in charge of him, whether it's the Sergeant-at-Arms, his nurse, or his kindly foster-father Sir Ector.
(14) It's the kind of TV that makes for a wipe-your-weekend-plans box set: the ending of every crack-fix of an episode had me twitchily reaching for the remote to a muttered internal monologue of: "Next one, next one, now, now…" Danes carries the series as the bipolar CIA agent Carrie Mathison, whose furious vigilance is hard to distinguish from pathological mania as she investigates, and ultimately falls for, Sergeant Brody (Damian Lewis), a Marine who may or may not be a terrorist after eight years held captive by al-Qaida.
(15) Inspired by raids carried out by Special Services units on Norway, Italy and France, Sergeant Peter King, a regular soldier and dental clerk orderly, and Private Thomas Leslie Cuthbertson, a trainee dental mechanic, set about their unofficial raid, outlined below.
(16) This is a new initiative from the union that represents NYPD sergeants.
(17) The two dead Israeli soldiers were identified as Captain Yochai Klengel, 25, and Sergeant Dor Nini, 20.
(18) Robert Brown, a former police sergeant, told the Guardian that he pulled out of the recruitment process for the Games after seeing it close at hand.
(19) "One way of reading the contradictory explanations between the sergeant at arms and what the DPP has said is that the police misled her, and I think that's a very serious issue which needs to be looked into," he told Sky News.
(20) "Too many sergeants are constables with stripes," he says.
Serjeant
Definition:
() Alt. of Serjeantcy
Example Sentences:
(1) The commission has asked the serjeant at arms to: • Consider with the administration committee "whether it is necessary or appropriate for this category of passes to exist at all".
(2) However, it was in Serjeant Musgrave's Dance that she first showed her gift for an epic narrative.
(3) Price told Channel 4 News last night that four members of the committee had considered asking the serjeant at arms to issue a warrant forcing Brooks to attend.
(4) Children’s art is on display and in the granite church sunlight enhances the 1466 brass effigies of the serjeant-at-law Nicholas de Assheton, who died the year before, and his wife, Margaret – figures normally hidden beneath the chancel floor but revealed on this day.
(5) Some plays: 1955 All Fall Down; '57 The Waters of Babylon; '58 Live Like Pigs; '59 Serjeant Musgrave's Dance; '63 The Workhouse Donkey; '64 Armstrong's Last Goodnight; '65 Left-Handed Liberty.
(6) Nunn, who has already served his sentence, had lodged an appeal which was due to be heard before the common serjeant at the Old Bailey, but he backed out at the last moment.
(7) MPs have dispatched the deputy serjeant at arms of the House of Commons to Wapping to deliver a summons in person to Rupert Murdoch and his son James to insist they turn up to give evidence to a select committee over the phone- hacking scandal.
(8) Her mental and emotional preparation over the years were gifts to Ann Jellicoe's The Sport Of My Mad Mother, Ionesco's The Lesson, Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape and Endgame, Arnold Wesker's Roots and The Kitchen, and John Arden's Serjeant Musgrave's Dance, all designed within 21 months, in 1958-59.
(9) Serjeant Musgrave had been well received there and Arden collaborated with several American theatre groups.
(10) Lindsay Anderson directed Serjeant Musgrave's Dance in 1959, but just as importantly for its ultimate reputation, says Arden, Anderson also defended and promoted it in response to the initially cool critical reaction.
(11) Thus, the values of pKa as function of the composition of the media have been determination potentiometrically according to Albert and Serjeant.
(12) The security function, previously managed by the usher and serjeant, with a security controller seconded from the federal police, was also transferred to the new DPS.
(13) · The jury was unaware that an attempt had been made during the trial to bribe the judge, Common Serjeant of London Peter Beaumont.
(14) The only play that really made money was Serjeant Musgrave's Dance and that was when it became a set text in schools.
(15) Murdoch and his son James appeared at the committee after the deputy serjeant at arms was sent to deliver formal summonses in person.
(16) Career 2013: chair, public inquiry into Mid Staffs NHS foundation trust; 2010: chair, independent inquiry into Mid Staffs; 2009: qualified as deputy high court judge; 2008 to present: chair, education and training committee, Honorary Society Inner Temple; 1999 to present: head, Serjeants Inn chambers; 2000-06: Professional Negligence Bar Association (chair; vice-chair; member, executive committee); 2002: made Bencher of the Honorary Society Inner Temple; 2000-present: recorder (part-time judge); 1996-2000: assistant recorder; 1992: made a QC; 1973: called to the bar, Inner Temple.
(17) Sentencing Hassan to two three-year sentences to run concurrently and Hussain to three years and 28 months to run consecutively, Nicholas Hilliard QC, the common serjeant of London, said: "One piece of material like this on the internet is one piece too many.
(18) The Commons authorities allowed the search to go ahead after police reportedly informed Jill Pay, the serjeant at arms, that the director of public prosecutions had sanctioned the arrest of the Tory MP – a claim denied by the Crown Prosecution Office, which suggests that the authorities were misled.
(19) His letter states that the issues surrounding security are backed by the Serjeant of Arms and the parliamentary security director.
(20) He then asked the serjeant-at-arms to enforce the prohibition.