What's the difference between soldier and warfarer?

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".

Warfarer


Definition:

  • (n.) One engaged in warfare; a military man; a soldier; a warrior.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.
  • (2) The home secretary was today pressed to explain how cyber warfare could be seen as being on an equal footing to the threat from international terrorism.
  • (3) There was effectively a state of open warfare between Mourinho and the club captain Iker Casillas.
  • (4) Aware that her press secretary, Bernard Ingham, a former labour correspondent for the Guardian who understood the range of attitudes within trade unions, had tried to soften the impression that she saw Kinnock as another General Galtieri [Argentina’s president during the Falklands war], the draft text tried to distinguish between unions, rival parties and what the final text (the one she actually delivered) called “an organised revolutionary minority” with their “outmoded Marxist dogma about class warfare”.
  • (5) Can Advanced Warfare shake up the series in narrative terms?
  • (6) In December he smashed apart the Roman forces in the north, assisted by his awesome elephants, the tanks of classical warfare.
  • (7) Convicted of waging aggressive war and breaking laws of war at Nuremberg, but not of war crimes (or for unrestricted submarine warfare, after US Fleet-Admiral Nimitz admitted he used the same tactics).
  • (8) Official military doctrine in many countries is that these laws apply to cyberspace as they do to all other domains of warfare.
  • (9) I only think it’s inevitable if people who support marriage between a man and a woman don’t speak up.” Labor’s Penny Wong said the “open warfare” inside the Liberal party had the potential to “damage the cause of equality that so many Australians care about”.
  • (10) The need for psychiatrists in the military was recognized for the first time during World War I, which involved millions of men in unusually protracted warfare.
  • (11) "There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning," the world's third richest man once warned fellow Americans.
  • (12) A soil sample originating from an area of suspected chemical warfare activity was subjected to chemical analysis and bioassay.
  • (13) One of the two women suspected of involvement in the poisoning vomited in police custody and was also suffering the effects of VX, which is only usually used in chemical warfare, the inspector general, Khalid Abu Bakar, said.
  • (14) In the context of what he called the "normalisation of war", Bacevich argued that unchallenged, expanding American military superiority encouraged the use of force, accustomed "the collective mindset of the officer corps" to ideas of dominance, glorified warfare and the warrior and advanced the concept of "the moral superiority of the soldier" over the civilian.
  • (15) West Side Story had become the acceptable face of teenage gang warfare, so Kubrick stylised and choreographed the violence, setting it to music that ranges from Rossini overtures to 'Singin' in the Rain'.
  • (16) In Asia, China has deployed a potent mix of psychological and legal warfare to strengthen its claims to hegemony over the South China Sea.
  • (17) 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
  • (18) In the 1991 Gulf War, Israel's infectious disease surveillance system was utilized to follow the progress of a measles epidemic and to look for evidence of a concealed biological warfare attack.
  • (19) "It's a form of asymmetric warfare," said William Becker, a lawyer and conservative advocate who represented the Santa Monica Nativity Scenes Committee in its losing battle with the city council.
  • (20) In that case, Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg apologized to Norwegian prime minister Erna Solberg after the company deleted a post by her in which she shared the picture in solidarity with Tom Egeland, a writer who had included the Nick Ut picture as one of seven photographs he said had “changed the history of warfare”.

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