(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.
Surgeon
Definition:
(n.) One whose profession or occupation is to cure diseases or injuries of the body by manual operation; one whose occupation is to cure local injuries or disorders (such as wounds, dislocations, tumors, etc.), whether by manual operation, or by medication and constitutional treatment.
(n.) Any one of numerous species of chaetodont fishes of the family Teuthidae, or Acanthuridae, which have one or two sharp lancelike spines on each side of the base of the tail. Called also surgeon fish, doctor fish, lancet fish, and sea surgeon.
Example Sentences:
(1) In conclusion, the efficacy of free tissue transfer in the treatment of osteomyelitis is geared mainly at enabling the surgeon to perform a wide radical debridement of infected and nonviable soft tissue and bone.
(2) This "gender identity movement" has brought together such unlikely collaborators as surgeons, endocrinologists, psychologists, psychiatrists, gynecologists, and research specialists into a mutually rewarding arena.
(3) This technology will provide better information to the surgeon for preoperative diagnosis and planning and for the design of customized implants.
(4) The skill of the surgeon was not a significant factor in maternal deaths.
(5) Four hundred patients with resectable colon and rectal cancers were operated on by 37 surgeons at 31 institutions.
(6) The instrument is a definite aid to the surgeon, and does not penalize the time required for surgery.
(7) By using these larger catheters, the surgeon will not lose the option of using isosmotic preparations.
(8) Surgery of destroyed joints in the hand and wrist in the arthritic patient can be added to the armamentarium of the reconstructive arthritis surgeon.
(9) During the 1985 annual meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons in Honolulu, neurosurgical training and practice in India, Korea, Japan, and Australasia were discussed at the International Committee symposium.
(10) No acute cases of clinical or anicteric hepatitis were in observed in 75% of 161 patients who had been exposed to hepatitis A by an oral surgeon during the contagious period.
(11) General anaesthesia with apneic oxygenation may offer the ENT surgeon increased possibilities of exploration and operation at the level of the larynx and trachea, but owing to its biological consequences, it should be used only with circumspection and its indications should be totally justified, for acts of limited duration.
(12) The conclusion is to warn the orthopaedic surgeons to look carefully what model is behind the pretty coloured results.
(13) A control group of 20 patients undergoing the identical cardiac operations (13 coronary artery bypass grafting procedures [CABG], 4 valve replacements [including 1 reoperative procedure], and 3 combined valve replacements and CABG) by the same surgeon within a one-year period was chosen for comparison of chest tube outputs.
(14) This is to help the surgeon to perform very precise surgery that was not possible in the past.
(15) These versions offer different advantages and are selected according to the particular field of application and the refraction of the surgeon.
(16) This demonstrates a considerable range in surgeons' attitudes to day surgery despite its formal endorsement by professional bodies, and identifies what are perceived as the organizational and clinical barriers to its wider introduction.
(17) The concept of increasing bone mass and decreasing expanded soft-tissue mass has application within the judgment of the surgeon coupled with the patient's desires.
(18) The surgeon must have an exact idea of this canal before undertaking operation for plastics of the hernial defect.
(19) A 1-month stay in Bangladesh at the Dhaka Shishu Hospital, made possible by the Canadian Association of Paediatric Surgeons, afforded an invaluable opportunity to be involved in Pediatric Surgery in such a setting.
(20) It is emphasized that surgeons should be more aware of the relationship of the holding power of surgical knots to not only the knot-typing technique but also the kind of suture material used.