Crossword clues for corporal
corporal
- Two-striper
- A noncommissioned officer in the army or airforce or marines
- Communion cloth
- Sergeant's right-hand man
- Kind of punishment
- Army fourth-grader
- One trained for engagement, characterising a body
- Soldier in company wanting 'proper speech' spoken
- Soldier describes one form of punishment
- Noncommissioned officer
- A Teletubby's broken into a cattle pen across the pond, officer
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Corporal \Cor"po*ral\ (k[^o]r"p[-o]*ral), n. [Corrupted fr. F. caporal, It. caporale, fr. capo head, chief, L. caput. See Chief, and cf. Caporal.] (Mil.) A noncommissioned officer, next below a sergeant. In the United States army he is the lowest noncommissioned officer in a company of infantry. He places and relieves sentinels.
Corporal's guard, a detachment such as would be in charge of a corporal for guard duty, etc.; hence, derisively, a very small number of persons.
Lance corporal, an assistant corporal on private's pay.
--Farrow.
Ship's corporal (Naut.), a petty officer who assists the master at arms in his various duties.
Corporal \Cor"po*ral\ (k[^o]r"p[-o]*ral), ||Corporale \Cor`po*ra"le\ (-r?"l?), n. [LL. corporale: cf. F. corporal. See Corporal,a.] A fine linen cloth, on which the sacred elements are consecrated in the eucharist, or with which they are covered; a communion cloth.
Corporal oath, a solemn oath; -- so called from the fact that it was the ancient usage for the party taking it to touch the corporal, or cloth that covered the consecrated elements.
Corporal \Cor"po*ral\, a. [L. corporalis, fr. corpus body. See Corpse.]
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Belonging or relating to the body; bodily. ``Past corporal toil.''
--Shak.Pillories and other corporal infections.
--Milton.Corporal punishment (law), punishment applied to the body of the offender, including the death penalty, whipping, and imprisonment.
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Having a body or substance; not spiritual; material. In this sense now usually written corporeal.
--Milton.A corporal heaven . . . .where the stare are.
--Latimer.What seemed corporal melted As breath into the wind.
--Shak.Syn: Corporal, Bodily, Corporeal.
Usage: Bodily is opposed to mental; as, bodily affections. Corporeal refers to the whole physical structure or nature, of the body; as, corporeal substance or frame. Corporal, as now used, refers more to punishment or some infliction; as, corporal punishment. To speak of corporeal punishment is an error. Bodily austerities; the corporeal mold.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
lowest noncommissioned army officer, 1570s, from Middle French corporal, from Italian caporale "a corporal," from capo "chief, head," from Latin caput "head" (see capitulum). So called because he was in charge of a body of troops. Perhaps influenced by Italian corpo, from Latin corps "body." Or corps may be the source and caput the influence, as the OED suggests.
"of or belonging to the body," late 14c., from Old French corporal (12c., Modern French corporel) "of the body, physical, strong," from Latin corporalis "pertaining to the body," from corpus (genitive corporis) "body" (see corps). Corporal punishment "punishment of the body" (as opposed to fine or loss of rank or privilege) is from 1580s. Related: Corporality.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 a. 1 (context archaic English) Having a physical, tangible body; corporeal. 2 Of or pertaining to the body, ''especially'' the human body. Etymology 2
n. 1 (context military English) A non-commissioned officer army rank with NATO code OR-4. The rank below a sergeant but above a lance corporal and private. 2 A non-commissioned officer rank in the police force, below a sergeant but above a private or patrolman. Etymology 3
n. (context ecclesiastical English) The white linen cloth on which the elements of the Eucharist are placed; a communion cloth.
WordNet
adj. 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" [syn: bodily, corporeal, somatic]
possessing or existing in bodily form; "what seemed corporal melted as breath into the wind"- Shakespeare; "an incarnate spirit"; "`corporate' is an archaic term" [syn: bodied, corporate, embodied, incarnate]
n. a noncommissioned officer in the army or airforce or marines
Wikipedia
The corporal (arch. corporax, from Latin corpus "body") is a square white linen cloth, now usually somewhat smaller than the breadth of the 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 Catholic Eucharist ( Mass).
Corporal is an American folk-rock band. Corporal's members include Michael Shannon (guitar, vocals, lyrics), Ray Rizzo (guitar, drums, vocals) Robert Beitzel (guitar) and Matt Scobee (bass).
Corporal is a military rank in use in some form by most militaries and by some police forces or other uniformed organizations. Within NATO, each member nation's corresponding military rank of corporal is combined under the NATO-standard rank scale code OR-4.
The rank of corporal nominally corresponds to commanding a section or squad of soldiers. However, in the United States Army, the rank of corporal is rarely used as most with the rank of E-4 are specialist and can do the same job that a corporal does. As the Table of Organization & Equipment (TO&E) rank of a fire team leader is sergeant and that of squad leader is staff sergeant. In the United States Marine Corps, corporal is the Table of Organization (TO) rank for a rifle fire team leader, machine gun team leader, light mortar squad leader, and assault weapon squad leader, as well as gunner on most larger crew served weapons (i.e., medium mortars, heavy machine guns, anti-tank missiles), armored vehicles (e.g., tanks, light armored vehicles, and armored assault vehicles), and the two assistant gunners on a howitzer (the gunner is a sergeant).
In most countries that derive their military structure from the British military system, it is a more senior rank than that of private. However, in several other countries, such as Canada, Italy and Norway, corporal is a junior rank, indicating a more experienced soldier than a private, and also on a higher pay scale, but having no particular command appointment corresponding to the rank, similar to specialist in the U.S. Army.
Corporal may refer to:
- Corporal, a rank in use (in some form) by most armies
- Corporal punishment, a form of physical punishment involving the use of pain
- MGM-5 Corporal, the first guided missile authorised by the US to carry a nuclear warhead
- Corporal (liturgy), a piece of white linen used during Mass
- WAC Corporal, a sounding rocket developed at White Sands Missile Range
- Corporal Kirchner, an American professional wrestler
- Corporal Robinson, an American professional wrestler
- Corporal Punishment (wrestler), an American professional wrestler
- Isadore "Corporal Izzy" Schwartz ("The Ghetto Midget"), American world champion flyweight boxer
- Corporal (band), an alternative folk band.
Usage examples of "corporal".
Ariani when Corporal Kallas and his twin brother Aulos grabbed him and hoisted him onto one of the tables.
A replacement corporal who had joined us for the mountain fighting at Baguio and Balete Pass, April of this year, first wanted to kick a few hundred of them in what we shall euphemistically call the lower groin.
I have interviewed a Major Blair, who served in the SAS with Bellhanger, and Lance Corporal Sweeting, who now lives in Italy.
Bloom snorted disgustedly, feeling outraged that a dimwit Wop of a buckass private should have money for icecream while the corporals went broke.
I was then placed under arrest by a Fenian, by order of his commanding officers, and conveyed to a farm house, where I found two of our wounded men, young VanderSmissen, of the University Rifles, badly wounded in the thigh, and Corporal Lakey, shot through the mouth.
I retreated into the communications bunker and ordered the corporal in charge to call for an air strike on the coordinates of Firebase Ruby.
There had been casualties, and Joseph and Lance -Corporal Goldstone were among those who had volunteered to see if they could find anyone wounded and still alive.
There in the flashing lights of camera bulbs and amid the clicking of movie cameras, which Goebbels had placed along with microphones at strategic spots, was recorded for the nation and the world to see, and to hear described, the solemn handclasp of the German Field Marshal and the Austrian corporal uniting the new Germany with the old.
The former continued his march to Heilbron, and it is hard to blame him for doing so, but Methuen on hearing the message, which was conveyed to him at great personal peril by Corporal Hankey of the Yeomanry, pushed on instantly with the utmost energy, though he arrived too late to prevent, or even to repair, a disaster.
Gunnery Sergeant Garcia stepped over the body of Lance Corporal Van Housen and laid familiar hands on the Browning .
Four infantrymen in the troop compartment were injured, and Corporal John Keto was killed outright when the round plunged through his chest on its way to the starboard wall.
As a rule, middies were nicer than corporals, perhaps because they had less to prove.
It was the warrant Brigadier Sturgeon had given him after the attack on Multan, appointing him an honorary lance corporal, in the Confederation Marine Corps.
Sergeant Juric, Corporal Nazim, and Private Platis for the Medal of Valor.
They will be under the guidance of Corporal Pasquin, who is a brave and resourceful NCO, but the two lance Corporals, Dean and Claypoole, can think on their feet too.