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corporal::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | enlisted officer, noncom, noncommissioned officer |
Examples of corporal
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One expects penal hardliners like Dr Fox to sympathise with corporal punishment.
From the independent.co.uk
That corporal punishment is abolished and preferably capital punishment as well.
From the jewishnews.net.au
A vehicle belonging to Atkins, currently a U.S. Army corporal stationed in Fort.
From the ocregister.com
He served in the European theater of operations and earned the rank of corporal.
From the freep.com
The 25-year-old corporal lost a leg and has been in physical therapy ever since.
From the orlandosentinel.com
The state closed the case with some indicators of excessive corporal punishment.
From the news-journalonline.com
By October of that year, however, he had been restored to acting lance corporal.
From the en.wikipedia.org
In the Royal Navy, a corporal is a petty officer who assists the Master-At-Arms.
From the en.wikipedia.org
In the Household Cavalry, the equivalent appointment is lance-corporal of horse.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- A noncommissioned officer in the Army or Air Force or Marines
- Bodily: affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit; "bodily needs"; "a corporal defect"; "corporeal suffering"; "a somatic symptom or somatic illness"
- Bodied: possessing or existing in bodily form; "what seemed corporal melted as breath into the wind"- Shakespeare; "an incarnate spirit"; "`corporate' is an archaic term"
- The Corporal (from the Latin corpus, "body") is a square white linen cloth, now usually somewhat smaller than the breadth of an altar, upon which the chalice and paten, and also the ciborium containing the smaller hosts for the Communion of the laity, are placed during the celebration of the ...
- The MGM-5 Corporal missile was the first guided weapon authorized by the United States to carry a nuclear warhead. A surface-to-surface guided missile, the Corporal could deliver either a nuclear fission or high-explosive warhead up to a range of .
- A non-commissioned officer army rank with NATO code OR-4. The rank below a sergeant but above a lance corporal and private; A non-commissioned officer rank in the police force, below a sergeant but above a private or patrolman; Having a physical, tangible body; corporeal; Of or pertaining to ...
- From Latin: corpus, meaning "body." A square piece of linen laid on top of the altar cloth at Communion.
- Corporal punishment was outlawed in schools years ago.
- A rank below sergeant but above private. Usually in command of a section of men. The Latin cap, meaning head or highest, is the most likely source of this word which evolved through the Italian capodi which, in turn, meant the head of a section. ...
