单词 | brigade |
释义 | brigaden.ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > a company or body of persons > [noun] ferec975 flockOE gingc1175 rout?c1225 companyc1300 fellowshipc1300 covinc1330 eschelec1330 tripc1330 fellowred1340 choira1382 head1381 glub1382 partya1387 peoplec1390 conventc1426 an abominable of monksa1450 body1453 carol1483 band1490 compernagea1500 consorce1512 congregationa1530 corporationa1535 corpse1534 chore1572 society1572 crew1578 string1579 consort1584 troop1584 tribe1609 squadron1617 bunch1622 core1622 lag1624 studa1625 brigadea1649 platoon1711 cohort1719 lot1725 corps1754 loo1764 squad1786 brotherhood1820 companionhood1825 troupe1825 crowd1840 companionship1842 group1845 that ilk1845 set-out1854 layout1869 confraternity1872 show1901 crush1904 we1927 familia1933 shower1936 a1649 W. Drummond Hist. James V in Wks. (1711) 199 Ye are such a Brigade of Papists, and Antichristian Crew. 1650 J. Howell tr. A. Giraffi Hist. Revol. Naples (1664) 117 All that huge Brigade of peeple. 2. a. gen. A large body or division of troops. ΚΠ a1649 W. Drummond Hist. James V in Wks. (1711) 91 He would..bring such War-like Brigades of French and Germans. 1649 W. Lilly Peculiar Prognostication 6 Some motion of our Armies or stragling Brigadoes. 1667 Milton Paradise Lost i. 675 Thither wing'd with speed A numerous Brigad hasten'd. View more context for this quotation 1776 Gibbon Decline & Fall I. 16 The peace establishment of Hadrian..was composed of no less than thirty of these formidable brigades. 1859 R. C. Singleton tr. Virgil Aeneid vii, in tr. Virgil Wks. II. 208 What kings by war Were roused, what brigads, following each, filled up The champaign. b. spec. A subdivision of an army, consisting formerly of two regiments or squadrons; but the composition now varies in different countries. In the British Army, an infantry unit consisting usually of three battalions and forming part of a division, or a corresponding armoured unit (for some time the word was used only of a unit of artillery). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > unit of army > [noun] companyc1325 compartment1590 brigade1637 detachment1678 contingent1728 unit1861 crowd1901 crush1904 mahalla1906 outfit1909 mob1916 serial1941 society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > unit of army > [noun] > brigade brigade1637 1637 R. Monro Exped. Scots Regim. ii. 184 Twelve companies thus complete would make up three squadrons..which..would make a complete briggad of foote. 1642 King Charles I in Declar. Lords & Comm. 19 May 31 A party..who commanded a Brigado. 1645 O. Cromwell Lett. & Speeches (Carl.) 14 Sept. Colonel Welden, with his brigade, marched to Pile Hill. 1702 London Gaz. No. 3832/2 The Duke of Vendosme left..four Brigades of Foot near the place. 1855 Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 437 Marlborough, to whom William had confided an English brigade consisting of the best regiments of the old army of James. 1856 Tennyson Charge Light Brigade (rev. ed.) i, in Maud & Other Poems (new ed.) 161 ‘Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns!’ he said. 1886 Whitaker's Almanack 163 Field Artillery; 1st Brigade: Dépôt, Newcastle. 3. A band of persons more or less organized for purposes of fighting, hunting, etc.; also a disciplined band of workers wearing a uniform, e.g. fire-brigade, shoe-black brigade. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > [noun] > group associated for common purpose covinc1330 lyancec1380 university?1473 army1540 band1557 union1603 coalescence1609 confederation1621 associationa1658 confederacy1681 federation1791 brigade1806 united front1807 class movement1839 company1839 paction1877 combine1889 protest movement1898 protest group1920 minority movement1923 we1926 power1966 1806 C. Hutton Course Math. (ed. 5) I. 219 (note) A brigade of sappers consists generally of eight men, divided equally into two parties. 1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville I. 166 The rest were organized into three brigades, and sent off in different directions, to subsist themselves by hunting the buffalo. 1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville I. 30 The various brigades of trappers. 1887 Christian Leader 3 Mar. 134/3 The Boys' Brigade..Ladytown Free Church, Arbroath, has started a company of this brigade. Compounds attributive and in other combinations, as brigade depot, brigade ribbon; brigade group n. (see quot. 1953). brigade-major n. a staff officer attached to a brigade, who assists the brigadier in command, and acts as the channel through which orders are issued and reports and correspondence transmitted. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > unit of army > [noun] > brigade > brigade group brigade group1810 society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer by rank > [noun] > major > types of brigade-major1810 subedar major1819 1810 Duke of Wellington Let. 27 Mar. in Dispatches (1838) V. 598 A Brigade Major appears to me to be a necessary appointment in Cadiz. 1844 Queen's Regulations & Orders Army 59 The Brigade-Major, or an orderly Adjutant, is to be constantly in the Lines of the Camp of the Brigade. 1873 Regul. & Ord. Army §5 Brigade depots are..to be inspected. 1945 Diamond Track (Army Board, N.Z.) 6/1 A brigade group with vehicles moving at 100 yards intervals. 1948 Lindsell & Benoy Lindsell's Mil. Organization (ed. 27) 26 The Territorial Army is in future therefore to include..Four independent infantry brigade groups. 1953 E. Smith Guide to Eng. Trad. 9 There may even be a composite ‘brigade group’, in which three infantry battalions are supported by a regiment of artillery, a squadron of Royal Engineers, and signal and transport units, &c. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online September 2018). brigadev. 1. transitive. To form into a brigade or brigades; to join (a regiment or other body of troops) with others so as to form a brigade. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > unit of army > form unit of army [verb (transitive)] > form into a brigade brigade1805 1805 Ann. Rev. 3 240 A shire is too large a division for brigading together the resident men in arms. 1837 Blackwood's Mag. 41 37 The firemen..have been combined into one body—‘brigaded’, as the rather affected phrase is. 1878 N. Amer. Rev. 126 85 My regiment was brigaded with the Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Regiments. 2. loosely. To form (people) as if into a brigade; to combine, associate. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > associate with for common purpose [verb (transitive)] > bring into association allyc1325 confeder1380 sociea1387 associate1398 sociate1485 companya1500 band1530 confederate1532 aggregate1534 colleague1535 join1560 enter1563 bandy1597 league1611 colligate1613 club1656 fraternize1656 federalize1787 brigade1831 1831 T. De Quincey Dr. Parr in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 386/2 Brigaded with so many scowling republicans are to be found..nearly one-half of our aristocracy. 1878 Lady Herbert tr. J. A. von Hübner Ramble round World II. iii. 537 Men, who were brigaded, and always ready to trouble the public. 1908 Daily Chron. 17 June 7/7 You cannot brigade British industry. 1933 N.E.D. Suppl. at Brigade Mod. A man asked to do a certain part of an encyclopædia article will say ‘they have brigaded me with so-and-so’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1637v.1805 |
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