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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
patrol
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
highway patrol
patrol car
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
area
▪ As they patrol their area regularly you should not have to wait long.
▪ You either patrolled an area close by or you were flown by helicopter to the more remote places.
▪ None the less, all three uses experienced a greater need to warden or patrol their areas in seasons of recreational use.
▪ Benson used 6 extra patrol cars to patrol the area where the black bikers met.
▪ A simple system of flag warnings is backed up by volunteers with loudspeakers who will patrol the shore areas.
▪ The warning came from the Solway River Purification Board, which patrols waterways in the area.
▪ Extra officers are patrolling the area.
border
▪ Why were the Marines patrolling the border?
officer
▪ My officers have been bravely patrolling that estate, on behalf of the community which we serve, and will continue to do so.
▪ Partygoers rocked a bus and threw stones and bottles at police officers and patrol cars.
▪ Extra officers are patrolling the area.
▪ Currently there are only about 5, 200 officers patrolling the entire country, which has a population of about 7 million.
▪ Two officers on a police patrol launch stationed just across the river at Westminster Pier saved the youngster's life.
▪ The show, which depicts eight officers patrolling the fictitious town of El Camino, debuted March 3.
▪ The body was spotted some four hours ago, by a pair of officers patrolling the promenade.
police
▪ The justification was to make police patrols more unpredictable to potential malefactors.
▪ Partygoers rocked a bus and threw stones and bottles at police officers and patrol cars.
▪ Civil police, who perform investigations, tend to be paid slightly less than military police, who patrol communities.
▪ Mayor Brown exhorted the Mission police station to patrol the park every day.
▪ Five hundred riot police now patrol the streets.
▪ But this afternoon police patrolling the M40 through Oxfordshire said some motorists were simply ignoring the warnings.
▪ Although the Police Department stepped up patrols there several months ago, Brown decided Friday to call on other agencies.
soldier
▪ Four soldiers with submachine guns patrolled the room, and an officer made his rounds at frequent intervals.
▪ Joint army-police patrols From Feb. 1 soldiers joined police in patrolling the streets of major cities and towns throughout the Soviet Union.
street
▪ Air raid wardens patrolled the streets to make sure no lights were showing in houses.
▪ The guests are greeted by the New York cop who patrols the New York street scene.
▪ Five hundred riot police now patrol the streets.
▪ He had seen a number of figures dressed in blue, patrolling the streets.
▪ He patrols Cheltenham's streets and car parks.
▪ They patrolled the streets and aimed to prevent, by their presence, the committing of petty offences or minor disorder.
▪ Police patrolled the streets and troops set up a road block and checked all vehicles entering or leaving.
▪ This was in the year when, as a youthful and helmeted fire-watcher, I patrolled the streets at home in Cardiff.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
foot soldier/patrol
▪ Barbarossa's foot soldiers were often still attired like this eleventh-century warrior.
▪ Dreben says that he never talks about his experiences as a foot soldier, but they were certainly horrific.
▪ Each foot soldier also carried a bow, twelve arrows and a spare bowstring as standard equipment.
▪ Hayworth is one of the many first-term Republican foot soldiers who proudly fall into lockstep behind Rep.
▪ In such cases, the environment provides foot soldiers with confusing signals regarding the acceptable level and forms of political activism.
▪ It is important to emphasize any explanation of the foot soldiers is highly contingent upon the environment in which they are operating.
▪ The columns included foot soldiers, artillery and cavalry units, white-topped sup-ply wagons, and dark-hued ambulances.
▪ These were organized into four divisions of foot soldiers and about 500 light cavalry.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Brook had been wounded while patrolling on the border.
▪ Riot police patrolled the hotel.
▪ Striking workers armed with steel pipes patrolled the shipyard.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Air raid wardens patrolled the streets to make sure no lights were showing in houses.
▪ Brown received much heat for his proposal last month that gang members patrol the 14 Mission line.
▪ Guards with AK47 assault rifles patrol the camp perimeter but there is no need to keep people in.
▪ He had pulled a hamstring during his warm-up and had done well to patrol as relentlessly as he did for an hour.
▪ He must patrol by night and walk by day.
▪ Mr Smyth argued that it would place officers in the uncomfortable position of patrolling with colleagues they had once arrested.
▪ No day went by that did not see Red Hill patrolling the river.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
military
▪ If so, will he ensure that a police officer accompanies every military patrol whenever humanly possible?
▪ It was a strange feeling to see the military patrols in the empty streets on election day, 15 February 1996.
▪ A military police patrol asked that he tour the area with them to find his friend.
routine
▪ Occupations and professions Much criticism has recently been made of the performance of routine police patrol.
▪ That was when the police car arrived. Routine patrol, but Morenz began to shake.
■ NOUN
air
▪ The picket line was supplemented by daily long-range air patrols by naval aircraft.
▪ Above, our full combat air patrol was on the alert.
▪ At any given hour there were aircraft aloft on combat air patrol, killing time, waiting for orders.
▪ They had somehow caught our combat air patrol flatfooted, though not for long.
boat
▪ Their lead over the patrol boat was down to two hundred yards.
▪ But lifeguards on a patrol boat sent to the area could not locate the whale.
▪ Despite the protection of the reef, there was sufficient sea running to make the patrol boat roll through sixty degrees.
▪ He didn't bother to look back to see whether the shots were coming from the patrol boat or from the tender.
▪ Soon after, lifeguards gave up their search and ordered the crew to moor their patrol boat.
▪ Trent looked back straight into the bows of the patrol boat.
border
▪ They must have been a border patrol.
▪ The mood is relaxed, and two border patrol officers chat across the fence.
car
▪ The patrol car arrives again and parks across the road from us.
▪ Fifteen to twenty minutes later a patrol car drove up.
▪ The assault on Watson and the theft of his patrol car are two separate crimes, he contended, requiring separate sentences.
▪ Another had himself chauffeured around in patrol cars.
▪ Consequently, the riders were escorted to the state line where Mississippi patrol cars took over.
▪ There will already be a couple of chaps in a patrol car down a side street as a matter of course.
▪ Police officials also said 12 patrol cars were seriously damaged in the melee.
foot
▪ I joined the uniform branch on foot patrol in the city centre division of Newcastle upon Tyne City Police.
▪ Kimi and the few who did attend asked for foot patrols at Kenilworth.
highway
▪ The police highway patrols use white Porsche cars.
▪ It may be called the state police, state troopers, militia, the rangers or the highway patrol.
night
▪ In 1921, for instance night patrols made thirteen arrests for cattle stealing in the Southern and Western Provinces.
▪ They were the relief night patrol on their way to take over from their colleagues, evidently as yet unaware of their capture.
▪ They also suggest that parish councils be given powers to spend additional resources from the Government on additional police or night patrols.
officer
▪ The mood is relaxed, and two border patrol officers chat across the fence.
■ VERB
send
▪ Now and then we were sent out of our normal patrol area on special operations.
▪ But it is a good excuse for us to send out a patrol of our own.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Police have increased patrols in some neighborhoods.
▪ the US border patrol
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Detecting suspicious activity in the community is where the bike patrol agents come in handy.
▪ From here I watch a patrol of pelicans skim the ocean surface while waves crash against the rocks.
▪ Night patrols were introduced in many districts, and some cattle thieves were caught transporting stolen animals.
▪ On the way we met two patrols with machine guns and my escort had to give what I thought was a password.
▪ Their pickets were posted too close to camp, and no cavalry patrols were out.
▪ Then further enemy aircraft arrived and bombed and strafed the patrol for several hours.
▪ They were forced to beat a hasty retreat and arrived at their rendezvous with Morris's patrol on time.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Patrol

Patrol \Pa*trol"\, v. t To go the rounds of, as a sentry, guard, or policeman; as, to patrol a frontier; to patrol a beat.

Patrol

Patrol \Pa*trol"\, n. [F. patrouille, OF. patouille. See Patrol, v. i.]

  1. (Mil.)

    1. 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. 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. The guard or men who go the rounds for observation; a detachment whose duty it is to patrol.

  2. Any perambulation of a particular line or district to guard it; also, the men thus guarding; as, a customs patrol; a fire patrol.

    In France there is an army of patrols to secure her fiscal regulations.
    --A. Hamilton.

  3. See Boy Scout.

Patrol

Patrol \Pa*trol"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Patrolled; p. pr. & vb. n. Patrolling.] [F. patrouiller, O. & Prov. F. patrouiller to paddle, paw about, patrol, fr. patte a paw; cf. D. poot paw, G. pfote, and E. pat, v.] To go the rounds along a chain of sentinels; to traverse a police district or beat.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
patrol

1660s, "action of going the rounds" (of a military camp, etc.), from French patrouille "a night watch" (1530s), from patrouiller "go the rounds to watch or guard," originally "tramp through the mud," probably soldiers' slang, from Old French patouiller "paddle in water," probably from pate "paw, foot" (see patten). Compare paddlefoot, World War II U.S. Army slang for "infantry soldier." Meaning "those who go on a patrol" is from 1660s. Sense of "detachment of soldiers sent out to scout the countryside, the enemy, etc." is attested from 1702.

patrol

1690s, from patrol (n.) and in part from French patrouiller. Related: Patrolled; patrolling.

Wiktionary
patrol

Etymology 1 n. 1 (context military English) 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 (context military English) 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 (context military English) The guard or men 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 men thus guarding; as, a customs patrol; a fire patrol. Etymology 2

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

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WordNet
patrol

  1. n. a detachment used for security or reconnaissance

  2. the activity of going around or through an area at regular intervals for security purposes

  3. a group that goes through a region at regular intervals for the purpose of security

  4. [also: patrolling, patrolled]

patrol

  1. v. maintain the security of by carrying out a control [syn: police]

  2. [also: patrolling, patrolled]

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Wikipedia
Patrol

A patrol is commonly a group of personnel, such as law enforcement officers or military personnel, that are assigned to monitor a specific geographic area.

This is also often referred to as a beat.

Patrol (disambiguation)

A patrol is the reconnaissance of or providing security for a designated area or route.

Patrol, Patroller or Patrolling may also refer to:

Patrol (TV series)

Patrol is a Singaporean action drama produced by Singapore Broadcasting Corporation (SBC) (now MediaCorp) in 1989.

Patrol (novel)

Patrol is a 1927 war novel by the British writer Philip MacDonald. It is set in Mesopotamia during the First World War, focusing on the psychological strain on a patrol of British soldiers when they become lost in the desert and surrounded by the enemy. It sometimes known as Lost Patrol.

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Usage examples of "patrol".

Patrol through the Grass Hills-or watch the white walls of the Accursed Forest for some giant stun lizard or cat big enough to cross the wards and take cattle or sheep.

If they survive their patrols against the barbarians, they will get patrol post commands on the edge of the Accursed Forest.

After two days of riding the wall, and time spent in the evening studying the ward-wall patrol manual that Maran had provided, his eyes tend to blur whenever he looks toward the chaos and whitened granite that prisons the Accursed Forest.

The six were assigned to intermediate air patrol and at the end of their patrol were to rendezvous with Martin and fly back to Bomber One.

Our patrols slipped down darkened trails to set ambushes or to be ambushed themselves.

Led by a classmate from Quantico, a black officer named Adam Simpson, a twenty-eight-man patrol was ambushed by two hundred VC and almost annihilated.

He must make his stand here and balk the encroaching patrol if he could.

Similar things had happened in various firefights and patrols since, though nothing quite as dramatic as the Australian event, and when he had felt the cold touch of it on his shoulder, he had barkened to it.

Parked in front were two NPS patrol cars: Randy Thigpen and Barth Dinkin.

The thatched roofs of the more primitive type of cabins looked bedrabbled, like the hair of a bather emerging from the lake, and the more substantial shelters were crowded with the overflow from these and from tents deserted by troops and patrols that had been almost drowned out.

Start the patrols in close and have them gradually fan out, but keep them in sight of the berm at all times.

Jair would tell him what had befallen, persuade him to send patrols south in search of his parents so that they could be warned of the danger that waited in the Vale, and then all of them would take refuge in the city until Allanon returned with Brin and Rone.

Patrol, since then he would not only have placed our outfit in an uncomfortable position, but, no longer extraditable, would be entitled to its protection from his fellow citizens.

Gorm was off patrolling his estates, and a housecarl had brought him a morning meal of honey cakes and ale a short time ago.

Krondorian patrol, who turned northward, while Jimmy and Malar continued southwest.