The meaning of Patrol

verb

Strike (a person or an animal) repeatedly and violently so as to hurt or injure them, typically with an implement such as a club or whip.

Usage examples:

If we were caught we were beaten

noun

A main accent or rhythmic unit in music or poetry.

Usage examples:

The glissando begins on the second beat

adjective

Short for beatnik.

noun

A detailed inspection or study.

Usage examples:

An examination of marketing behaviour

noun

The act or process of carefully looking at someone or something to learn about its condition or to discover facts

Usage examples:

[ c ] you have to have a physical examination/exam in order to get life insurance., [ u ] the evide…

noun

The process of checking something carefully in order to discover new information or prove particular facts

Usage examples:

Examination of sth the review includes a detailed examination of city records., close/comprehensive…

verb

Watch over in order to protect or control.

Usage examples:

Two men were left to guard the stockade

noun

A person who keeps watch, especially a soldier or other person assigned to protect a person or to control access to a place.

Usage examples:

A security guard

noun

A person or group of people whose job is to protect a person, place, or thing from danger or attack, or to prevent a person such as a criminal from escaping

Usage examples:

Prison guards, security guards, post a guard there are guards posted (= standing and watching) at e…

verb

Have or retain possession of.

Usage examples:

Return one copy to me, keeping the other for your files

noun

Food, clothes, and other essentials for living.

Usage examples:

The society are paying for your keep

Continue a certain state, condition, or activity

verb

Observe and check the progress or quality of (something) over a period of time; keep under systematic review.

Usage examples:

Equipment was installed to monitor air quality

noun

A device used for observing, checking, or keeping a continuous record of something.

Usage examples:

A heart monitor

noun

A television receiver used in a studio to select or verify the picture being broadcast from a particular camera.

Usage examples:

The playback can be displayed on an external television screen or monitor

verb

Keep watch over (an area) by regularly walking or travelling around it.

Usage examples:

The garrison had to patrol the streets to maintain order

noun

An expedition to keep watch over an area, especially by guards or police walking or driving around at regular intervals.

Usage examples:

We were ordered to investigate on a night patrol

noun

A unit of six to eight scouts or guides forming part of a troop.

Usage examples:

Break the cubs into sixes and scouts into patrols

noun

A person or group of people who stand outside a workplace or other venue as a protest or to try to persuade others not to enter during a strike.

Usage examples:

Forty pickets were arrested

verb

Act as a picket outside (a workplace or other venue).

Usage examples:

Strikers picketed the newspaper's main building

verb

A wooden strip forming part of a fence

noun

The civil force of a state, responsible for the prevention and detection of crime and the maintenance of public order.

Usage examples:

When someone is killed, the police have to be informed

verb

(of a police force) have the duty of maintaining law and order in or at (an area or event).

Usage examples:

We will be policing this event appropriately, to make sure the rally passes off without incident.

plural noun

An official force whose job is to maintain public order, deal with crime, and make people obey the law, or the members of this force

Usage examples:

I think you should call the police., police arrested two people in connection with the robbery., se…

noun

The maintenance of law and order by a police force.

Usage examples:

A ten-point plan to improve policing

verb

(of a police force) have the duty of maintaining law and order in or at (an area or event).

noun

The work of the police force

Usage examples:

Policing differs from town to town, from country to country., policing resources are of much better…

verb

Another term for reconnaissance.

noun

The process of getting information about enemy forces or positions by sending out small groups of soldiers or by using aircraft, etc.

Usage examples:

He sent three men on a recce., he did a little recce of the area before picking a spot to wait with…

verb

Make a military observation of (a region).

Usage examples:

They reconnoitred the beach some weeks before the landing

noun

An act of reconnoitring.

Usage examples:

A nocturnal reconnoitre of the camp

adjective

Shaped like a circle or cylinder.

Usage examples:

She was seated at a small, round table

noun

A circular piece of something.

Usage examples:

Cut the pastry into rounds

adverb

So as to rotate or cause rotation; with circular motion.

Usage examples:

A plane circled round overhead

noun

Close observation, especially of a suspected spy or criminal.

Usage examples:

He found himself put under surveillance by british military intelligence

noun

The act of watching a person or a place, esp. a person believed to be involved with criminal activity or a place where criminals gather

Usage examples:

The parking lot is kept under video surveillance.

verb

Look closely at or examine (someone or something).

Usage examples:

Her green eyes surveyed him coolly

noun

A general view, examination, or description of someone or something.

Usage examples:

The author provides a survey of the relevant literature

verb

Determining opinions by interviewing people

noun

A period of keeping awake during the time usually spent asleep, especially to keep watch or pray.

Usage examples:

My birdwatching vigils lasted for hours

noun

A period of staying awake to be with someone who is ill or to call public attention to something

Usage examples:

The boy’s parents kept a long vigil in his hospital room., a candlelight vigil on the steps of the …

verb

Look at or observe attentively over a period of time.

Usage examples:

Lucy watched him go

noun

A small timepiece worn typically on a strap on one's wrist.

Usage examples:

My watch had stopped

verb

Look attentively