Privates - English meaning

noun

A person, animal, or large machine that digs earth.

Usage examples:

As men and women watched in tears, the diggers quickly dumped earth on top.

noun

A machine used for digging

Usage examples:

A mechanical digger

noun

The loose white jacket worn in judo.

Usage examples:

The match begins with competitors standing up on padded mats wearing gis

noun

A private soldier in the us army.

Usage examples:

She went off with a gi during the war

noun

Short for glycaemic index.

Usage examples:

A food is considered to have a low gi if its score is below fifty five

verb

(of an animal, especially a pig) make a low, short guttural sound.

Usage examples:

An enormous pig grunted and shuffled in a sty outside

noun

A low, short guttural sound made by an animal or a person.

Usage examples:

With snorts and grunts the animals were coaxed down the ramp

verb

Issue a low, animal-like noise

noun

A soldier belonging to an infantry regiment.

Usage examples:

As operations unfold, the army has found that protection is needed not just for infantrymen but for…

noun

A male police constable or soldier.

Usage examples:

In the ensuing gun battle three army jawans, one police man and a civilian sustained bullet injury.

noun

An infantry soldier in the french army, especially one who fought in the first world war.

Usage examples:

It coincides with a large number of books and exhibitions about the poilus, as french soldiers in t…

noun

A soldier in the ranks; a private.

Usage examples:

Not many officers would condescend to talk with us rankers.

noun

A simple soil consisting of a layer of humus lying directly on an unaltered substrate such as bedrock, glacial drift, or volcanic ash.

adjective

(of vegetation) growing too thickly and coarsely.

Usage examples:

Clumps of rank grass

noun

A soldier responsible for tasks such as building and repairing roads and bridges, laying and clearing mines, etc.

Usage examples:

This is extremely significant when you consider the reduction of the number of sappers in combat en…

noun

A soldier who does jobs such as building bridges, repairing roads, and laying and clearing landmines (= underground bombs)

Usage examples:

Originally, sappers dug "saps", or trenches, to undermine the walls of fortifications., un-trained …

noun

A soldier of low rank

noun

A private soldier.

Usage examples:

He is hard-drinking, fighting everybody from the neighbourhood gossip to the swaddies.

noun

A british private soldier.

Usage examples:

The tommies, the british soldiers, they would sing to the melody of ‘auld lang syne.’

noun

A private soldier in a cavalry or armoured unit.

Usage examples:

Behind the colonel were his hand picked unit of super troopers.