patrol

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English

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -əʊl
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Alternative forms

Etymology 1

From French patrouille, from Old French patrouille, patouille (“a night-watch”, literally “a tramping about”), from patrouiller, patouiller, patoiller (“to paddle or pudder in water, dabble with the feet, begrime, besmear”), from patte, pate (“paw, foot of an animal”), from Vulgar Latin *patta (“paw, foot”), from Frankish *patta (“paw, sole of the foot”), from Proto-Germanic *paþjaną, *paþōną (“to walk, tread, go, step, pace”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pent-, *(s)pat- (“path; to walk”), a variant of Proto-Indo-European *pent-, *pat- (“path; to go”); see find. Cognate with Dutch pad, patte (“paw”), Low German pedden (“to step, tread”), German patschen (“to splash, smack, dabble, waddle”), German Patsche (“a swatter, beater, paw, puddle, mire”). Related to pad, path.

Noun

patrol (countable and uncountable, plural patrols)

  1. (military) A going of the rounds along the chain of sentinels and between the posts, by a guard, usually consisting of three or four men, to insure greater security from attacks on the outposts.
  2. (military) A movement, by a small body of troops beyond the line of outposts, to explore the country and gain intelligence of the enemy's whereabouts.
  3. (military) The guards who go the rounds for observation; a detachment whose duty it is to patrol.
  4. Any perambulation of a particular line or district to guard it; also, the people thus guarding.
    a customs patrol
    a fire patrol
    • (Can we date this quote by A. Hamilton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?):
      In France there is an army of patrols to secure her fiscal regulations.
    • 2013 August 24, “Boots on the street”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8850:
      Philadelphia’s foot-patrol strategy was developed after a study in 2009 by criminologists from Temple University, which is in the 22nd district. A randomised trial overturned the conventional view that foot patrols make locals like the police more and fear crime less, but do not actually reduce crime. In targeted areas, violent crime decreased by 23%.
  5. (scouting) A unit of a troop, usually defined by certain ranks or age groups within the troop.
Derived terms
Translations
movement by a small body of troops beyond the line of outposts
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Etymology 2

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French patrouiller, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French patrouiller (“to paddle, paw about, patrol”), from patte (“a paw”)

Verb

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  1. (intransitive) To go the rounds along a chain of sentinels; to traverse a police district or beat.
  2. (transitive) To go the rounds of, as a sentry, guard, or policeman
    to patrol a frontier
    to patrol a beat
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